surprised so many people are with the op on this, ffxi was the same and so is i think every mmo. NM's are usually a competition. only thing is the servers are so empty right now your just used to being able to not have any comp. if the game was up to par i doubt u will ever find a NM worth camping not filled with people fighting for claim. i too hate when people camp on top of me, mostly for grinds but for NM's i get annoyed but i just shrug it off as something that happens, if it's grinds i will switch to my 50 and kill everything in site most likely and do that every time i notice that group grinding.

i do want every drop though to become rare/ex though (but still be able to materia somehow) i hated in ffxi rmt out claiming me every single time. i never did get a drop on them nm's till they went rare/ex and you won't believe the amount of time i spent trying lol. you would think SE would of learned by now to make it all pop items and rare/ex stuff.