Quote Originally Posted by Arcell View Post
From what I've heard, this was somewhat of a problem in FFXI. Parties claiming large numbers of monsters and leading them back to a group of mages who just AoE spammed them all to death. Something along those lines, I never actually saw one.
It wasn't a problem in XI, what SE did with XI was eventually reduce the damage done by AoE spells vs amount of targets hit, it also reduced drop rates if you get AoE kills, but if it was EP+ you still got the XP for it, unlike here, which just falls back to the game being unfinished as the whole point to every ability being AoE or Conal is because the original tagline of XIV is:

Many vs Many.