Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

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Are you being serious right now ? Really ? I mean Seriously!? The hardest part to 90% of HNM and Bosses in FFXI was the requirements to pop them up, and getting the man power to zerg then down while your tank holded aggro :/ Spending days and weeks gathering the items or waiting on spawns for the chance to fight a HNM or boss is not Hard! It is a TIMESINK! Timesink does not equal difficulty, it never did in EQ, why should it be so in FFXI( a FF version of EQ) ?

About AV! He was a TANK AND SPANK FIGHT! Serious question here, what part of that fight, was not a tank&spank fight ? Your tanks hold aggro your dps stand and dps him down, that was the hole fight :/

Oh and PW was a joke, that was not even a boss fight, it was simply impossible to beat at the time it was released, and plain simply a stupid encounter design from SE, and they themselves went and nerfed both him and AV afterwards :/

Well.. not to sound rude, but with that Post you kind of proved me right.

1. Its Common knowledge that AV wasnt beat for a LONG Time, so if it was only Tank and Spank, how is that even possible?
2. You obviously never did HNM's, since you dont know that 90% of the Pre-ToAU HNM's were not Item-Popforced.
3. I still did not talk about Timeconsuming, since waiting for a Pop has nothing to do with the Fight itself.
4. By your logic every Fight is Tank and Spank, so basically all of the MMO's are Tank and Spank.
5. Did you ever fight AV, Jorm, Vrtra, etc? Or are you just "assuming"?

So yeah now please do tell me again about FFXI boss fights being harder than Mirmidon HM

Meh...

Phase 1:

TANK AND SPANK <--- There you go.

Phase 2:

TANK AND SPANK + Curespam

Phase 3:

TANK AND SPANK + Kiting

Phase 4:

TANK AND SPANK + Mix of the previous Phases.

So.. i guess you are right. Those fight are really not Tank and Spank. And like i said before, WoW vs. FFXI are always ridicilious Discussion, so we should Stop here and Focus on the Topic. Which is FFXIV-Powerleveling.