I struggled to find a post on this using the search function but I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned before but will post anyway about my attempt to clear a tunnel solo earlier...

Since 1.18 I have been doing all my play solo due to the fact I can't find an exp group for the life of me... seems nobody is using the new seek party function.... So I decided to go look for some decent places to grind, I was looking around a cave near Nophica's Wells and came across a long narrow tunnel filled with bombs and skeletons, I decided to start pulling them to clear the tunnel but this was tough because they were clustered together anyway. After managing to get one of them away I backed up around the bend a little to not aggro the others, after about 20 seconds of me fighting wasting cooldowns and mana the mobs decides to run back to its territory, this happened repeatedly in the end I managed to just steamroll through the tunnel giving up on my tactical attempt.

So as said before please fix this as you did say you wanted to encourage skillfull play, this might not be directly related to skills or how you use them but pulling and using the terrain effectively is also a factor in battles but the current system doesn't allow for you to do that....

Please fix this or make the monsters territory larger, I would hate to eventually get a grind party that consists of the party having to run and move all over the place to get to the mob, the exp party camps in FFXI were great in this regard, while the zones are probably too large to remove it completely at least make the territory much bigger.