One of my only memorable experiences outside of scripted events in my early days in eorzea was encountering a magnificent beast.

Let me tell you the story:

Way back when i was a wee lil lvl 13ish Pugilist sprout, i traveled twixt Horizon and and Vesber bay (as you do every so often as a newbie following the story). On my journey i saw something big.

No, not only was it big, it was bloody enormous. Also quite terrifying.

it was a huuuuge dragon-scorpion-bat.

it was Zona Seeker.

So there i was, contemplating what to do with my find, so i attempted to attack it.
To everyones big surprise it absolutely wrecked me, smashing my face in the ground.

"No biggie" i thought, knowing that death really only was a minor gil penalty at that point.

So i shouted "Uhh What is Zona Seeker?" and soon enough another player showed up. And then another. And another one. Fairly quickly we were what seemed like a hundred folk, just waiting to kill it.

We engaged it, charging at it with full power. I of course died again.


I like the tougher mobs in low level zones. They no only gives high level players a reason to return to them but also an opportunity to show sprouts how high level players look and act.