Because eventually it wont be astonishingly, amazingly, absurdly, ridiculously difficult and we will have the same shit end game as now.
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Spawn time/method has nothing to do with the difficulty of the actual NM...these are separate discussions. Faction NMs should be hard, there's no debating that, especially since you can retry for free on a failure they should be very, very, hard.
Another issue is just the plain lack of variety in gear right now at high ranks. With so much overlap in gear usage, everybody runs around in essentially 2 battle sets, a mage set, and a crafter set at the highest ranks. IMO...there is a general lack of variety in just the basic crafted r40-50 gear compared to the variety you get during r20-40. Doing a quick ZAM query - there are 366 items r20-29, 328 items from r30-39, and 40-50 (Even with an extra rank) there are 224 pieces of gear. And that 224 includes the NM gear. There should be well over 300 items 40-50 that can be crafted and rare gear on top of that.
You joking right? Have you done HNM around 2010? every HNM ls i was going to join had a bot it was like o.o wow and let me tell you the bots do work not if someone else have a even better bot. The bot would even claim the mob before it was you could really see it. I dislike HNM ls because of that and quit FFXI i though if all HNM LS going to do is bot i better of playing FFXIV.
And the HNM that did not have bots was saving up 60mil to buy the bot for there LS. It was that or pay 1-2k real life money which i bet most ls pay for anyways.