Notorious Monsters, or where's my Leaping lizzy!?

[shepardG]

Yeah, i know, who cares/level your jobs bitch/fish for your gil/etc.
But i was curious if there are any NM's or are they just left to guild leves? I did some forum scanning but couldn't find anything addressing the actual exhistance/placement/re-spawn time of any NM's. If it's been addressed please delete/move/ball bust/etc.

On that note, if anything turns up i'll keep OP updated as a Focal point for new Info

Created: 29 Sep 2010; 1530EST
Last Updated:29 Sep 2010; 1530EST

[Celeras]

Just guild leves right now. They werent in FFXIs launch either, i'd expect them to be coming. Mobs already share spawns with mobs of another type.

[qpoiuwer]

There does seem to be 1 really out of place overpowered monster in each area though. There's that Goobbue near Skull Valley, there's a Pieste near Black Brush and another near Drybone.

[Azien]

Notorious Monster
Soon, there will be NM's even in the world of FFXIV. These will look very different from most of the other normal monsters. We're planning to introduce NM's that are so huge they make a Malboro look small. The tranquil era is about to end! We're going to torment adventurers with these powered up, aesthetically varied NM's which we've prepared "episodes" for.

There aren't any "open world" NMs outside of guildleves.

This was posted by SE in the tester forums prior to launch

[Meko]

Lawd I wonder what color they'll con. Dare they give them skill and crossbones?!

[Celeras]

This was posted by SE in the tester forums prior to launch

That was a mistranslation by XIVcore. Read their news thread starting from here: http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/17035...16#entry315716 , and look at the quotes below. The post says there WILL be open world NMs, the quotes below quoting the person says there WONT be open world NMs. It was edited to be fixed, which is why the quotes are still wrong and show the mistranslation.

Guy saying he mistranslated: http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/17035...34#entry315734

People gotta stop repeating the same wrong information once its been corrected.

[Gokku]

in a cave near dry bone theres a ...thing... idk how to explain it its name is snuggle... or something along that line hit me for about 3000, also found a bird near Ul'dah nothing else had its name that ive seen ill look for them tonight and try to post SS's

Found the cave its around X 19/20, Y 47/48 , went in the snuggle is gone but there was a grenade there.

[miokomioko]

There are currently zero unique monsters. If you come across something you've never seen before, chances are, it's found somewhere else as well.

[Biggie]

That was a mistranslation by XIVcore. Read their news thread starting from here: http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/17035...16#entry315716 , and look at the quotes below. The post says there WILL be open world NMs, the quotes below quoting the person says there WONT be open world NMs. It was edited to be fixed, which is why the quotes are still wrong and show the mistranslation.

Guy saying he mistranslated: http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/17035...34#entry315734

People gotta stop repeating the same wrong information once its been corrected.

Sigh, how many flipping times do I and many other have to correct you on this??? THIS is the correct translation right from SE http://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/event/...report_en.html

PLEASE show me anywhere in there it says there WILL BE open world NMS?????? And don't just post some crap from core or anywhere else where they have translated, I want to see it right from SE, just like the post they have already made that says nothing about "Open world" NMS.

in a cave near dry bone theres a ...thing... idk how to explain it its name is snuggle... or something along that line hit me for about 3000, also found a bird near Ul'dah nothing else had its name that ive seen ill look for them tonight and try to post SS's

Found the cave its around X 19/20, Y 47/48 , went in the snuggle is gone but there was a grenade there.

There are lots of snurbles in the game, and lots of birds.

[xopher]

PLEASE show me anywhere in there it says there WILL BE open world NMS??????

Show me where it doesn't.

[Trinsie]

Show me where it doesn't.

Yeah and show me where it doesn't say we get race cars.

Checkmate! It doesn't so therefor we will get race cars.

[shepardG]

racecars will require 15 anima to use.

[Celeras]

Sigh, how many flipping times do I and many other have to correct you on this??? THIS is the correct translation right from SE http://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/event/...report_en.html

PLEASE show me anywhere in there it says there WILL BE open world NMS?????? And don't just post some crap from core or anywhere else where they have translated, I want to see it right from SE, just like the post they have already made that says nothing about "Open world" NMS.

Show me where it doesn't.

^ If you want to take a 'wait and see' attitude because the official site doesn't list it at all under the translation.. then fine. Feel free. But if you're going to cite an incorrect translation as your source for thinking otherwise, you're going to be corrected. And that does nothing to change the fact that it was still explicitly mentioned during the stream, one way or another.

[orson]

As long as the open world NMs are instantly respawned after death then they'd be ok otherwise screw it. Camping AKA not playing the game for like 3-4 hrs just not to get a chance to fight a monster is the biggest cock blocking retarded time sink ever.

[miokomioko]

As long as the open world NMs are instantly respawned after death then they'd be ok otherwise screw it. Camping AKA not playing the game for like 3-4 hrs just not to get a chance to fight a monster is the biggest cock blocking retarded time sink ever.

I think you meant...

Camping NM can be a time sink.

MMORPG, anyone?

[Draylo]

No because it gets into the whole botting thing... Really don't care for adding NM's. If they do add NM's they should make the spawn time and conditions different for each spawn so there isn't monopolization imo.

[Azurewrath]

There better be NMs. More stuff to do.

Time sink, if you dont want it, why the fuck are you playing an MMO? Really now.

Anyways, I was in the cave right to the east of bearded rock that spawns beetles and fireflys, and i was farming, and this one jackass kept grabbing them right before me, anyways, he went afk, and a Spriggan popped. I had been in there for hours on many different occasions, and never seen this. it aggroed me, was very weak, so I walked it out of the cave, unaggroed it so it ran back, and i mpked him

Shhh

[loyaltrekie]

Time sink, if you dont want it, why the fuck are you playing an MMO? Really now.

There's a difference between a 'time sink' and an entertaining/fun/someotherpositiveadjetive activity that just happens to take a bit of time to complete. No one is asking for hurrdurr InstantWinButton, most people are asking to keep the boring/repetitive/tedious crap to a minimum. More playing, Less sitting.

[Azurewrath]

There's a difference between a 'time sink' and an entertaining/fun/someotherpositiveadjetive activity that just happens to take a bit of time to complete. No one is asking for hurrdurr InstantWinButton, most people are asking to keep the boring/repetitive/tedious crap to a minimum. More playing, Less sitting.

Implying you have to camp NMs

[loyaltrekie]

Implying you have to camp NMs

You forgot the >>

They shouldn't be wasting dev time on creating time sinks just for the sake of being time sinks. I'm hardly debating wether an NM system is actually a time sink or not, but your reading comprehension level couldn't get that through to you I guess.