The difficulty has been recently jacked up at the lowest levels too! I have a MRD who joined up at Bearded Rock, (only one again, since I am on a low-pop server) and the NPC pitted my solo behind against 4 R12 Moles (fair challenge) and an aggressive R19 Chiglet.

Why drop a mob in that high level, and make it aggro, AND surround it by other behest mobs?! Being MRD vs. Chiglet, my accuracy was horrible and I didn't have much in armor yet either. I got bored and killed regular R1-3 mobs before quitting the behest altogether.

It didn't used to be like this. When the battlewarden would mention that a behest was for R5, it would actually be a challenge without being something nigh-impossible to complete. Not to mention, the cash pay-out is fairly low for behests to start with.