Why does this patch feel rushed like when the game was released?

[Forbin]

It's a lot worse than the Iron Lake kobolds, by far. There's a mining node for "Mining Treespeak" that's trapped directly behind an Ixali (rank 48-ish) encampment. There is no way to access it other than running directly through at least half a dozen Ixali (no matter how you try to approach it), and the node is within their territory so they will not deaggro you. Even if you have a rank 50 combat class to switch to and dispose of the Ixali (you need to kill at least 5 of them), there's nowhere safe to stand to tap the node without being interrupted by a respawn (they respawn very fast).

someone obviously never played FFXI and never had to sneak/invis harvest.. dieing @ Mt. Zyhlom with no real easy way back.. BOOO HOO! it makes it fun.. figure it out.

[Jynx]

someone obviously never played FFXI and never had to sneak/invis harvest.. dieing @ Mt. Zyhlom with no real easy way back.. BOOO HOO! it makes it fun.. figure it out.

I might agree with you if we were able to sneak/invis. From the sounds of it harvesting items became much harder than it was prior.

Chances are next update they may move the grade 5 nodes around in some areas to compensate for the new mob positions.