So I got this quest today as I started leveling RDM, and wow.

What's with the ridiculously hard NPCs?

I bought NQ 115 accessories, and I just could not kill those two black mages no matter what, until I pulled out my chocobo. I made sure I was using what is mostly a standard rotation, and all that stuff.

I've never had this kind of trouble on any class quest. One shouldn't require a chocobo to get a quest done, or HQ gear.

That or perhaps Vercure should come earlier than 54 or something, because seriously, that was a ridiculously overtuned quest. None of the SAM quests were anywhere near that hard and I did those without even buying jewelry.