[Dev] Reducing Spawn Timer For All HNM's

Ballista?! *looks around for Urteil*

The only thing I would welcome (and would have welcomed a looooong time ago) would be a change to Tiamat's actual window. I honestly don't see any point whatsoever in changing the repop time on either of the remaining HNMs.

Giving SW and DI a 2 hour repop time would most likely quickly kill what little market is left for those drops. Pop conditions and such are far too fickle on those 2 mobs.

I dont understand why botting is so accepted practice when it comes to claiming NMS but when I try to bot the ***out of farming for gil to buy HNM drops, people get all bent out of shape.

You seem to misunderstand, it's not accepted, it's more that people realise nothing will come from complaining about it.

oh... wait...



'twas a joke, bruh :x

I miss aerial armor :(

It provided more enjoyment and amusement than most of this game has been capable of since. In terms of "big kills", please find something, recently, that can compare to the first NA kill of something on your server. First NA Tiamat on mine was um, 6 hrs? Two shells teamed up, unbelievable amounts of fun... for a wyrm horn. The vent/ts (Whatever we used then) conversations were hysterical. There was always the stereotypical angry person making every little detail known, exploding heads over thfs feeding tp, etc. These "difficult 5 minute fights" that come out every update aren't really anything like that anymore... (Granted this is a lot to do with knowledge, gear, playerbase, and level progression, however, with what we had at our disposal back then, this can be argued either way)

I understand some people personally hated hnm.... then you should have stayed away from it.

I liked hnm :X i just hated the elitist gimps who thought they were really really good... yet they fulltimed their enfeeble set, thought they should always play thf yet didn't have th4, blms without hq staves, the list goes on ;X....


and hey! my whm mule uses apoc ;;;;;;;;;;; stupid tarus getting oneshotted from anything that hits them <_< >_>

Easy fix. Install Crystenne's idea into one server for all the 'you dont deserve the same gear as me, i am so much better than you' or the 'i prefer 1% drop rates so i can spend years for a piece of equipment i might win a lot on' people. And let the rest of the world evolve.

lol a mule and your main are 2 different things. and even still... 20 yalms aoe distance on most things.

Better idea yet, times should change only if you actually have killed tiamat and other said hnms before 2008-09 (give some room there) then you can have the shorter time spawns. If not then you get no spawn ever!

I gotta be honest, there are people I would love to have screenshots like this of. Sadly, I lost most of the good ones in a format.

I had some that were less malicious like outparsing a relic drg back when I had a dreizak....

Best news post evar <3

/troll feature would be pretty entertaining, I gotta say.

lolwtf...

you on crack or what ? ...

Woulda been cool if they actually made a more difficult server promoting teamwork.. Nah this is FFXI T_T

So which mobs will this change actually cover?
-R

love it. u nailed HNMLS drama down to the decimal

So many gimps cry over this bc they can't claim, i liked HNM for the sole reason of getting stuff no one else will have w/o buying it off me. If theres profit to be made off HNM that i can monopolize it makes sense to do so. Hence wopaco/Nirvana/Vos crushed the competition out and made millions upon millions in gil/items, we are all human and everyone that has a chance to excel will take that opportunity to exploit others. Its pretty lol most of you sit there and QQ about getting outclaimed but we all know if you were the 1 hoarding said HNM you would love it. Only needed 2 things for HNM if you were serious about it,1 being determination, 2 being loyal friends who are determined. You do not need a bot or extreme hours to claim. Ppl who cry bot have no proof anyway, only make assumptions, they're just trying to justify why they weren't good enough to claim.

I think u are the best man! They rly have no prove of botting :P
They are just justifying cause they were good enought to claim! XD
HNM era has been and will be forever the golden era of FFXI!!!
I rly missed alot of old lsmate cause of this stupid abyssea, but ill never forget the time i spent with them and the time we spent togheter making other ls cry claiming Faffhogg, KB, Aspid every day for months and months!

Monopolizing and griefing over a skill-less luck-based competition system does not make for good gameplay.

Well since im also a poker player this is what i think about what u said:
"It's immoral to let a noob keep his money!" ^^

If ppls couldnt claim nms was not my fault, they should have been less noob :D

Because claiming NMs is skill-based, right?

Atleast look based^^. And anyway why i should let someone else claim if i can claim every time?^^ its like when u are making an empy like kannagi 85 why should i let someone claim gukumatz? I play for myself and my friends... if ppls want to find compromise they just should say: hey alternate claiming gukumatz, but still i havent found someone asking or doing that so i work for my and my friends goals

Its kind of hard to tell who is doing the crying in this thread.

Why is SE so determined to kill off what's left of oldschool FFXI endgame? Just make the HNMs harder and the drops better or something... Why do they have to mess with the formula so damn much?