Shocked at the reduction in mage damage, quadruple mp cost, and lowered resources

[Neptune]

I imagine they want to make a lot of the NMs non-soloable. Otherwise, what's so notorious about them?

The NMs are very much non-soloable. The fun comes in finding a creative way to solo them. In FFXI, that was RDM/NIN for a long time. Thinking outside the box and figuring things out. That was my forte.