Fill the land of 2.0 with loot!

[Seif]

I hope there will be a metric gigaton of collectables scattered throughout the zones of 2.0.

There should be a reason for players to explore the zones on their own and find hidden treasure chests all over the place.

They could be tied to metagames like achievements and GC points/gear/you name it/recipes.

Also the placements of collectables would offer nice challenges for player to figure out how to get past or through a group of mobs or even NM's that need to be killed for some chests to appear.

Maybe even hide some maps to be unlocked if all the tokens of zone X are collected? Sky is the limit for variety here.

Since SE is going through the trouble of doing an entire new landscape please make it count.

This would also be one of the few challenges in open world that you could not complete by just staring at map markers.

[KiriA500]

I don't care about collectables, I just want an awesome world to explore.

[Amyas]

I don't care about collectables, I just want an awesome world to explore.

Aaaand three minutes later someone had already popped in with a big fat



OP already said it should have an awesome world and cool stuff for people to do/collect.

[Seif]

Aaaand three minutes later someone had already popped in with a big fat



OP already said it should have an awesome world and cool stuff for people to do/collect.

I think "awesome world to explore" means nothing if there's not anything to find. I want 2.0 to be more than just a 3d model viewer.

[Fenwick]

I'm a sucker for collectable items, I love gathering insignificant little cosmetic things.
No sarcasm intended.

[Seif]

Just random ideas regarding to this:

Maybe some events could take advantage of this for example an Easter egg-hunt that randomly places collectables in some zone to find to complete an event?

A chest chain where every chest spawns a mob and gives a key to the next harder one?

Randomly placed collectable that gives you a def buff for 20 mins?

I just hope exploration will be encouraged and rewarded instead of this current model of huddling around crystals all the time that instance everything.

[Tigercub]

With you 100%
I hate how everything worthwhile gets instanced. What's the point in a gigantic, beautiful world if there's no character benefit to exploring it? I thought they took a very small step in the right direction with Shposhae, having those unique plundered items in an open world space like that. I went there and I enjoyed collecting them. It's one of the only times I've done anything fun in open world FFXIV. When I was done using them for my low level jobs, I was glad to be able to sell them and get a small cash windfall.

More NMs, events and chests with worthwhile and unique loot, all the way. Items that have their own niche and will always be worth getting, like Astral Rings in XI, for example. And not everything has to be Ex, sometimes it's fun to get a paycheck item!

[Dargoth_Draconia]

With you 100%
I hate how everything worthwhile gets instanced. What's the point in a gigantic, beautiful world if there's no character benefit to exploring it? I thought they took a very small step in the right direction with Shposhae, having those unique plundered items in an open world space like that. I went there and I enjoyed collecting them. It's one of the only times I've done anything fun in open world FFXIV. When I was done using them for my low level jobs, I was glad to be able to sell them and get a small cash windfall.

More NMs, events and chests with worthwhile and unique loot, all the way. Items that have their own niche and will always be worth getting, like Astral Rings in XI, for example. And not everything has to be Ex, sometimes it's fun to get a paycheck item!

Character benefit seriously!? So you must get rewarded for looking at beautiful graphic design by the company? The new zones themselves are the reward here, just be happy that we are getting that and not stuck with all the copy & paste ones we have now.

Now I can agree with some new NMs in the world with some new items though rare/ex items make me just as happy. Also some new open world hidden dungeons would be acceptable but that is really a given with a map redesign.

[Chardrizard]

Unique mobs in various areas that ddrops tripe triad cards.

[Seif]

Unique mobs in various areas that ddrops tripe triad cards.

I love it. Triple triad cards would be perfect for this.

This might sound OT but I just realised this when playing Tera.
I was looking at a pathway to just one of the waterfalls that are decorated with wrecked pirate ships. A familiar thought popped into my head: "I wonder what's behind that bend?"

Sure it looked absolutely amazing but I didn't autorun there because having played the game for a few hours I already knew that there's literally nothing to discover on the ground by wandering off on your own. Thus I don't think there really is true exploration in that game. You're just following map markers on a straight path laid out by the quest system. Then suddenly the whole game world started to feel very hollow, a feeling I remember from the first month of XIV.

2.0 doesn't have to waste the landscape to be just areas for leves. Make us care to see every nook and cranny and leave no stone unturned, no mob unkilled, no cliff unseen, no beach un-sun-bathed, no shop rifled through, no grass uncut...

you know what I made my point better in the op so...yeah.