Not an Atma thread....

I am actually wondering about the lower level leve's. Since this atma thing is ridiculous I am going to wait until either the drop rate is improved (either next patch or even first expansion, whatever). I went to go level my other jobs, all of which are at 20ish or 30ish. I was doing leve for 25-30 shroud, leve I have done dozens of times probably. Never had a problem soloing before, this time however... I get completely overwhelmed with mobs?!?!?! I mean it was ridiculous the amount of mobs that suddenly spawned right on top of me. I didn't even have a chance, my chocobo was dead in seconds and next thing I know I die... so I re-spawn at crystal and go back to finish. It is the rope a lope quest. By the time I walk the very short distance back to where I died the npc I was supposed to be guiding is dead. So, I restart the leve, this time I kill all the marked mobs before leading the target to the specified area, I get one maybe two "beckon" emotes in and boom, overrun by mobs killing my choco, me, and the target npc in seconds... Like I said, I have done this leve multiple times with another job to get it to 30, that has never happened before. What happened to these leve's? I thought they were supposed to be a easy-ish way to grind through levels? Is SE trying to force everyone to have to grind fates now for everything? Before no one did fates, now it seems that your only option is to do fates... that's just really stupid.