Monster placement in Eorzia

[Ninku]

I have really been wanting to go exploring the rest of the world other than the zones of the 3 major cities. The reason I have not explored much of the world is because when I do go exploring I end up dead. I could understand if I were in some really high level zone in comparison to my character, however that is not the case. I am running past lvl 18-24 monsters and around the next corner is a rather large lizard looking monster and the level is 72. I have to ask, why??? The single greatest thing of FFXI was the division of the zones. Lack of seamless loading of the zones sucked, but the diversity of the world and monsters within was great. FFXIV this isn't so much the case. I've noticed that I could literally grind my way from lvl 1 to 50 in the same zone. Yes they are huge zones but the same old stuff gets old. A level 10 person should not be fighting a monster that looks exactly like a monster a 50 would be fighting. For instance in FFXI the catarpillar or grub type monsters that were outside Windurst can be found in another zone and they are suddenly a great deal higher in level. So I ask the Devs, can you check your monster spawns? Maybe make the locations more of a gradual rise in levels and don't use the same monster skins for everything. Also in the zones of the 3 major cities a person shouldn't be leveling past 30, in my opinion. Even that seems too high for a person to still be in the zone they first started out in given the fact of only 50 levels.