New NMs

[BloodLotus]

Leve system for REAL NMs?!?! Like seriously dude, look what the FNMs are like.....and you think that by adding more LEVE NMs it will solve the issue we're talking about in this entire thread?

Let me recap it for you.

Rare Gear [Can I have it?] Not everyone on the server using the same Dodore body bc they farm it more than Spook...

lol thanks for making my point.

[Scarface]

lol thanks for making my point.

Let me guess, you guys use 15 people on FNMs and kite it using dia/bio/poison to kill it while kiting.

[BloodLotus]

Let me guess, you guys use 15 people on FNMs and kite it using dia/bio/poison to kill it while kiting.

Bad guess.

My turn, you want a 36 hour pop with a 24 hour window so you can use your botting program to claim the NM so you can call yourself hardcore.

[Naylia]

Leve system for REAL NMs?!?! Like seriously dude, look what the FNMs are like.....and you think that by adding more LEVE NMs it will solve the issue we're talking about in this entire thread?

Let me recap it for you.

Rare Gear [Can I have it?] Not everyone on the server using the same Dodore body bc they farm it more than Spook...

Spawn time/method has nothing to do with the difficulty of the actual NM...these are separate discussions. Faction NMs should be hard, there's no debating that, especially since you can retry for free on a failure they should be very, very, hard.

Another issue is just the plain lack of variety in gear right now at high ranks. With so much overlap in gear usage, everybody runs around in essentially 2 battle sets, a mage set, and a crafter set at the highest ranks. IMO...there is a general lack of variety in just the basic crafted r40-50 gear compared to the variety you get during r20-40. Doing a quick ZAM query - there are 366 items r20-29, 328 items from r30-39, and 40-50 (Even with an extra rank) there are 224 pieces of gear. And that 224 includes the NM gear. There should be well over 300 items 40-50 that can be crafted and rare gear on top of that.

[Naylia]

I still think timer pop is ....boring....

Get more creative with conditions of starting battle. If there are a bunch of LS's sitting around waiting for the same bad guy to pop, SE has failed me in the creative department.

You can have a wolfman pop once a month on full moon, you can use weather, prior quests/story, just plain random assault, etc. But popping on a timer in the same rough location just seems kind of ...sad... for a video game made in 2010/11.

[Xeno]

Yay for casuals supporting getting things quickly and without effort! SPOONFEED ME SE!! SPOONFEED ME!!!!!!!!!!

[Randis]

This couple trollish kids don't represent the hardore gamers. Can't take em serious.
People who try too hard to impress others usually compensate for something. I am not accusing anyone but some of the people i met in FFXI with such attitude were people who botted a lot or bought their accounts.

[Xeno]

This couple trollish kids don't represent the hardore gamers. Can't take em serious.
People who try too hard to impress others usually compensate for something. I am not accusing anyone but some of the people i met in FFXI with such attitude were people who botted a lot or bought their accounts.

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They're not trolling. Hxc players don't want casuals to have the same stuff as them with infinitely less effort put into it. Hxc players should never = casual players. You shouldn't be able to get the best gear in the game by fighting a quick 30 second fight that can happen every 5 minutes with a 100% drop rate.

[BloodLotus]

It's a shame I gotta leave, this was getting interesting.

No HNM's (edit: 24 hour + spawns) I don't like the mechanic. It would be better to make faction NM's more difficult. Gaining points is far more interesting than waiting for a pop.

[Randis]

there is nothing more exciting than waiting for 3 hours just to loose it to a bot and having to wait another 24 hours for the next try, maybe for months. Better yet for years, that would make the loot sooo much sweeter.