@TigerLilley. While there are issues that will hopefully be fixed tomorrow such as the chain clock not resetting and others. I think when it came to Pagos, Yoshi and the devs sat down one last time and decided how to get rid of as much afking as possible. The result worked, we are spread everywhere and getting anywhere is a pain for NMs. You can't bunch up with other groups as the group that tags it gets 100% xp and the other group gets 20% xp. So they took care of their and are saltiness out on afkers but the down sides of the fix are horrid. hoping for a rez. good luck if you died outside a normal path players often take.

Needless to say the point you bought up on recycled instances makes sense. I have gone almost 3 hours without a single NM. other times I zone in and it is 2 to 4 NMs back to back for no reason. Players are not even in the area.

Hopefully they have some fixes for this tomorrow night as this is really the worst relic step ever and that includes the 11% drop rate in ARR relic line.

Last as always a good check, what do the JP forums say about this? Those are far easier for SE to read and I really doubt they care what is said here by NA/EU players.