Thread: Fill the land of 2.0 with loot!

Exploring was all I wanted to do in 1.0. but it was ruined by lack of treasure, repetative level design and the built in GPS with map. please make it so we have to travel to unlock the map instead of outright giving it up.

Originally Posted by Rukkirii

If you are the type of adventurer who likes finding treasure chests randomly while exploring the landscape, you will be able to experience something close to this with the upcoming FATE system.

Not particularly. But I guess this would be the best scenario for a game like this.

Read first page so I am sorry if I am repeating someone.

A few things spring to mind -

Mognet - Moogles all around the world, need to deliver letters to the next moogle, etc... Everyone should remember that epic sidequest. Could simply open up some form of rare/ex trophy piece of gear that is quite useful for completing that questline.

Mog Tablets (FFXI) - Pop a bunch of "tablets" in 5-10 random places all over the world, out of say 200 pre-defined locations. The spawn time is completely random as well, so no one can camp them as such. Just get the RNG to pick a time once a week and pop them. They stay up until found, depop once found. The finder gets a unique housing furniture or some extremely potent EXP buff consumable item or something.

Choco hot & cold - Pick a huge amount of locations. First location is recieved after your choco learns how to dig (via a quest). Location for each is a hint. Something like "Near the skeleton of a great Wyrm" etc. Order of these locations are completely random. The chests themselves are found via the choco hot&cold game that I won't bother explaining because most people should know it.

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Could even tie mognet & choco hot&cold into one. The locations are revealed as you deliver letters for the mognet. (Moogle: "Moogs tells me in her letter that there is some great treasure hidden near the skeleton of a great Wyrm!" or something) then you get that location/quote stored in your journal.

I agree that randomly spawning chests is not quite the same as finding all the chests that were hidden in the worlds of classic FF games.

I still think it would be cool if there were chests that you could just find and open in the world that were unique to your character, even if the contents of the chests were always the same each time, and you could only open them once per character.

The completionist in me would be very excited about treasure chests like that. They could even base some achievements off of finding all the chests hidden in the world.

To make it interesting, they could make some chests that only appear under certain conditions. For example, chests that only appear during certain weather, or during certain times of the day, or during certain moon phases, etc. They could have a few of these "one time" chests in dungeons in addition to the chests that already exist which drop dungeon loot etc. So that to complete your "Treasure Hunter" achievements, you may have to sacrifice a speed run to go click that chest off the beaten path your first time through.

Yes it would be a one time content, but I think if there are enough of these chests, it would still be a worthwhile content. Also it would add some excitement every time new zones or dungeons are released, because it would mean more treasure chests to find!

I really wish the devs would consider a return to FF roots on treasure chests, and let me go explore the world to find treasure chests, instead of them randomly being handed to me out of some dead monster. (Isn't that what monster drops are for anyway ? What's the difference if the mob drops loot or if the mob drops a treasure chest that drops loot, really ?)