I noticed within the gathering leves activated at Treespeak that the trees and mining spots are badly placed within groups of R50 monsters. I spend more time wiping out the monsters then actually gathering and get my leve done, it is also bad there is a huge amount of them and that they re-spawn there as well.

Here are examples:

R50 Wild Hogs
http://share.fantaji.com/pictures/9250/1311723022/ffxiv_1311717071.jpg

R50 bird monsters
http://share.fantaji.com/pictures/9251/1311723029/ffxiv_1311718602.jpg