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I kind of wish that during a next patch or something..... they'd just not say anything. Once in a while, throw in a weird NM unannounced in the open world. An obscure piece of gear that must be discovered. I wish the devs would just throw in some **** to ***** up our daily lives. Like one day you are doing your normal business and BAM, you get killed by "wtf was that?" Link shells would be aflutter with "good god! this four winged **** peguin came and owned me in sagoli desert! lets kill it!"

Maybe some random duty finder dungeon secret bosses that make a rare appearance to add even more roulette to duty roulette. Imagine doing your typical ho hum WP run when suddenly your normal route gets obstructed by a uh.... cave in or some **** or an alternate path opens.

Doing a low level dungeon at 50 with a first timer new to the duty? you beat the final boss.... you thought.... until the rare bug eyed beast from beyond comes and snatches up your noob for dinner and drags him to another corner of the dungeon and the new bonus objective of "save your noob" becomes a new priority as your level becomes UNCAPPED for the real challenge at hand.

I want some rare unforeseen weird things to happen once in a while to spice up my experience instead of running the same choice-less dungeons again and again.

Some random events (that arent fates) would be amazing.

Seeing a pair of people walk along the roads, they do that now, but only for fates. Just some npc life outside of the towns.

I'm not asking for Fallout stuff, where you suddenly find a café in the middle of nowhere with old final fantasy characters (though that would be awesome), or a UFO encounter (also awesome) or even monsters comming out of nowhere to raid a town (also very awesome).

But a simple Treasure Chest, far away the normal traveled path that appears randomly (truly random) a couple times a day without mention in so many places that it would be impossible to camp, i'd like that. Encountering a diffirent shade of monster once in a while instead of the regular ones, nothing special or diffirent, just a pink crab in the middle of all blue ones. Maybe some diffirent things during rain or moon phases, even just npc chatter refering to things that are happening in the area... idk...
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Mmmm..as much as I'd want surprises, we're still in "Vanilla" and Yoshi's mantra is: Instance = Good, Overworld = Bad...so there's really nothing they can surprise you with, unless they throw in Musketeer which like archer won't have any combos and 4-5 Job skills that also won't combo and be utterly useless or something.

Right now the only surprise I seem to get is Error 9000 out of the blue.

That certainly spices things up for the rest of the party.

I think Killua should be a surprise mob in the overworld and/or dungeons. I find his posts amusing. And he'd be an amusing addition as Eorzea's next primal threat fed by the rancor of the troll beast tribe.

Just kidding Kill, you get a lot of hate, but you can "troll" up my threads all you want as far as I'm concerned. Even though I love this game, I enjoy reading positive and negative opinions. This game leaves me feeling a lack of imminent danger or what I like to call "fun panic."

hey at least dark souls 2 is coming out soon for those of us that appreciate richer gameplay.

OP has pinpointed one of the major flaws in the modern mmo model and everyone here rates him down. he wasnt even being negative. its a sad state of affairs. human beings that crave intellectual stimulation get bored and unhappy with repetition.

XIV is many things, many of them good. but it is safe, repetitive, and predictable gameplay. thats fine and relaxing for when i want that sort of thing, but sometimes i don't. its just disappointing that i have to look elsewhere for that experience but i guess its not really a big deal.

i feel like XIV will be one of the last and best examples of the modern mmo model. mmos have better days ahead.

no, in practice it's actually quite fun as well. there's a reason we are seeing such an influx of procedurally created gameworlds lately.

idk what save the noob event you mean. i assume you gravitated towards one specific example the OP used as a suggestion to illustrate his point, which is a pretty silly way to approach this topic.

not to mention that you made up some weird scenario where all people want to do is farm tomes after working all day. oh the fun. more repetitive tasks after my day of most likely repetitive tasks.

i'm just not sure why you seem to think you know what "people" want, or why you think they all want the same thing. and why you think that thing is farming tomes. hm. i'm probably dissecting this too much. ah well.

Edited, Feb 5th 2014 9:38pm by Llester

In any MMO, 'hardcore' content is usually optional so I don't see why it couldn't(wouldn't) be here as well. Most of the endgame content as it stands now isn't really that tense anyway so it would be nice to have a challenge for a change.

An event that rewards gear and items equivalent to current tier, but is completely optional. I can't see a downside. It adds content which is sorely needed, it's not required to progress otherwise and it's eligible to receive the same 'nerf and move to DF' treatment for those who want to participate but lack the gear/cooperation/ect.

I like randomly created dungeon generators. Does that count?

The randomly created Named Mobs from Diablo III that would sometimes have some insane ability combination was exciting, if somewhat deadly and now-and-then impossible.

Still prefer loot from a table rather than random stats though. Let's be clear on THAT!

Having to consider what might happen I find keeps similar activities exciting for longer.

Not so much cheating as it was outright elitism. Only melee with relic, mythic, or Empyrean weapons were allowed. Only scholars could come as healers. Vent players only. Etc.

SE actually nerfed SCH's Embrava due to complaints from white mages and red mages that they weren't being invited to play any more.

No, NNI was mostly a cheating issue; wall walking, massive speed hacking, etc. I don't really blame them because anytime you design content where your ability to reach the entire lies entirely upon *luck* is absolutely horrendously designed. Nyzul Isle was fun, and progress could be saved. NNI required you to go the entire 100 floors and pray that you didn't get ****** over by the floor jumps, and this was on top of the fact that with the exception of floor 100 (and barely, barely floor 80) all of the gear was entirely pointless so if you didn't get to the top it was literally an entire wasted trip. Then consider that you're only allotted as many attempts as you have Assault tags (a ******** block for a revamped event) and the entire concept had the makes of disaster written all over it.

I don't agree with most/any of the elitism in FFXI (especially requiring Delve, to do Delve, etc.) but in the case of NNI it's more of a terrible place for all players where no one won. Even just browsing the BG thread on NNI from the beginning even the cheating and hacking didn't guarantee a win but merely gave people a few more additional jumps in case repeated 1/2 floors at a time. And even then, if you remember, with RME90s (minimum at the time) people still timed out and just barely killed the floor 100 boss with more than not losing out on his loot and only walking away with the platinum token.

I played for a bit in Adoulin and people pretty much accepted any weapon for anything non-Delve... and non-NNI. When the event's entirely driven by luck I sadly can't entirely blame people for wanting the absolute best chance for victory they can (i.e. NNI). Requiring Delve weapons for the non-mega boss NMs, though, was idiocy.

Yeah, I would consider any third party tools like that as cheating.

Edited, Feb 6th 2014 1:11pm by UltKnightGrover

I used to play a f2p mmorpg called Mabinogi. You could buy a boss or win him from a dungeon or something I can't remember. Then release him next to any city. Bosses were huge. Always thought it reminded me of the giant ram in FFXI. Made the ground shake. In World of Warcraft there was a zone with a T-Rex that made a circuit you had to always keep an eye out for. Loved that stuff.

WoW's T-Rex was prob the best approach. You knew it was there somewhere but you never knew when it'd come around. The ram in FFXI was great but it stayed in one spot which didn't pose that much of a threat even tho that one spot was the road between you and your beginner party. Mabinogi's boss mob release was not as well received. I took a vidoe of it, Youtubed it, then posted on the forums, "Look what I found," to which everyone replied, "it's just someone's boss release, noob." So being in control of the surprise seems to take away people's fascination. Remember FFXI very random pirate spawn when sailing? My friend and I would ride that boat for days back and forth just to get in on pirates.

I think the fates were suppose to be more exciting than they are. I don't have a problem with them. I played and enjoyed RIFT and fates remind me of those. But this "surprise me" subject has been in my thoughts since I joined ARR. I'm thinking it would be wise of Square Enix to plan some unique mobs and situations for their expansions.

Good subject klooste8!