There is a reason:
The gear simply isn't rank 42, it's rank 30. Very simple really.
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Even the 42+ NM i done it with me and my GF no one else. The boar was one of the hardest we fought took us. About a 15-30min fight and got the loads of axe and 1 belt. The level does not really matter people ask for something hard but rewarding and does not take 1-24hours of camping this is what we got.
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Note to everyone: Please stop complaining about this issue the best thing that happen in FFXIV was the NM. There short,Rewarding and challenging.
The NM that drop the 30 gear are for Med range players to party up 2+ members there some you can even solo without issue.
Please start a topic about something that would help ffxiv not something that in ffxiv and working how it should be.
This is the reason forums are bad idea when you have lot's of people saying it should be this way. The dev read it and may change something that was working fine how it should be -.-
Gtfo the NMs are all POOP easy.
Very true but dev trying to make this game easy for i hate to say this for wow players/casual so you never know they may take the 2 like over the 24 one -.-
But anyways the NM are easy and made for med range the low level nm wont be added for sometime i bet maybe 1.20-1.21 :)
No, it seems to be going the way of way easier than WoW. Even in WoW, you gotta be overleveled to solo dungeon and get nice drop, which becomes worthless by the time you get it.
The problem is the gear itself. Stats and attributes are a complete mess right now, NM gear is mostly worthless.
We know you want the game to be easy as hell, but that's not a fun game. People want to play fun games. There was tonnes of people considering quitting if the dungeons were as easy as the content they added before that.
A rank 42 mob is nothing to a rank 30, you can solo a normal rank 42 mob at rank 30, NMs are obviously going to be stronger than other mobs of their rank.