Difficulty spike in Heavensward areas

[Kragon]

ARR zones mobs were normal and the gameplay felt smooth but in the Heavensward areas the outdoor mobs hit really hard. I cannot take more than 2 mobs at a time. I am a tank.

[Legion88]

This is intentional

[Masekase_Hurricane]

ARR zones mobs were normal and the gameplay felt smooth but in the Heavensward areas the outdoor mobs hit really hard. I cannot take more than 2 mobs at a time. I am a tank.

I am guessing you are not wearing the highest available 50 gear.

[Kragon]

I am guessing you are not wearing the highest available 50 gear.

Right now I am wearing a mix of 125 and 120 gear.

[MuseTraveller]

Pull your chocobo out to help you with some of those until you get better gear!

[Nixxe]

My chocobo is healer specced for a reason.

The stuff in Heavensward does hit a bit harder, but I didn't really find it to be an issue either.

[DrWho2010]

Once you get better gear this will become moot. Spend your poetics on Ironworks gear and the carbontwines/coats to augment them. This gear will last you thru to at least around level 55. Then start replacing it with the HQ gear you get from the MSQ/sidequests and/or dungeon drops until you reach level 60 and can start grinding tomes for gear.

[bounddreamer]

Run away! Run away!

[Sagittarian]

People complained in ARR that the standard zone mobs did not feel threatening so things were adjusted. Congratulations, you are dealing with the effects of what other people asked for.

[Frizze]

I remember thinking this at first too, then i noticed that many of the mobs were buffing themselves/debuffing me and i had been ignoring it. Once i started paying better attention, these problems mostly went away.