C'mon FFXIV playerbase. Eat your broccoli with cheese sauce, so you can grow up big and strong. That's how I see Aurum Vale

Also it's been nerfed directly and indirectly over time.

First nerf would be, that nerf they did to the puddles and to goldblight, making them unable to kill SCH and SMN pets. Next nerf would be the addition of the Coincounter telegraphs.

Indirect nerfs include: Addition of new jobs with insanely high damage potencies, and then general potency increase for every job with each expansion that's come out. There was a time when DRG's strongest hit was 300 potency hahaha.

Now that we get guaranteed leveling gear from ARR dungeons, everyone should be up to par on gear for AV, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they will be, because there's no level sync req, so they aren't forced to equip shit. haha.