I really think the ability to Call for Help on any NM is ridiculous, so I'm going to go on a campaign to get it removed from the game. For that I'll need a bit of help, so this message will be posted on just about every FF XI Forum I visit.
Due to a recent CFH incident on KB (the 3rd out of our 5 claims as an LS, and the 1st time it was actually our fault), I've finally decided I've had enough of stupid CFH incidents. There are only 3 reasons I can think of to CFH on an NM, and I'll lay them out, with reasons why they're ridiculous, stupid, or useless enough reasons that the benefits of making it so NMs can't be CFHed far outway the loss.
1. To piss people off (or more specifically, keep another LS from getting items). Perhaps a group of players MPKed you and stole your mob, and you only have 1 person left alive, so you CFH so they can't get anything out of it; or perhaps you just like making other players lives a living hell. All I can say is, in the first case it's better to steal it back (is revenge really a strong argument anyway?); and in the second gtfo, no one wants to play with you, so why should the game make it easier for you to piss people off?
2. There are NMs that drop nothing, so it makes sense to CFH them to kill them more quickly. The only example of this I can think of at the moment is on the summons during Kirin; however these are certainly killable quickly enough with a single alliance. This point will be addressed further later on however.
3. Sometimes you accidently aggro an NM, or pull an NM, that you are unable to kill. You can CFH and possibly get assistance to kill it. Or you can ally or invite other players to help you kill it; trust me, they will thank you for it, and be much less likely to simply watch you die.
As far as I can see, the ability to Call for Help on NMs is pointless, and only happens through mistakes or to cause someone else grief. The benefits are that no one would be able to steal an NM and Call for Help on it, as commonly happens with gilsellers (or other unscrupulous players); there would be no more accidently Calling for Help, for example 3 hours into fighting Tiamat/Jormungand/Vrtra, or at the very end of fighting King Behemoth, where he dies on CFH and is unavailable for another week.
Please, please, please suggest to SE that they remove this ability from the game; this would reduce the number of incidents occuring with NMs and HNMs that cost us all so much time and effort. If you want a slightly more player-friendly version, ask that only NMs that do NOT drop items can be CFHed; any other NMs cannot.
Thank you in advance for any time and effort you may expend in this cause. If you have have any suggestions or arguments for or against this, feel free to post them.
P.S. Suggestions can be sent to Square-Enix by logging onto POL, going to Service and Support -> E-mail to SE -> Comments and Suggestions.