Guild Wars 2

As a suggestion, break away from the old school boring mmo “spawn out of thin air” manner for monsters to appear. A novel idea would be to put some kind of mini happening in respawning monsters, such as having wasps appear out of hives, boars and jaguars appear out of bushes, diggers appear out of actual holes in the ground and spread out fom there, frog beasts appear out of their huts, those underwater naga things appear from underwater caves, etc.

You could have major spawn points that have a boss, and many small spawn points with no special features other than a graphical point for monsters to come from and spread out.

Wouldn’t this give the game a much more eventful feel than just having beasts pop out of thin air? It doesn’t have to be complicated, just litter the maps with many minor and few major spawn points from which the monsters come and spread out to their normal places, instead of just popping up at their normal places.