Agreed, i'm having constant issues with a certain SMN that will come by and cast their AoE that lasts for like a minute on top of the spawns so they automatically get the claim and i get nothing. Obviously being a job with a long term AoE will make you a successful farmer....but what of us that have jobs like WHM that don't have such abilities? I think its quite poor planning to only make 5 mobs and a FATE boss drop fleece. I do understand 'bottlenecking', however, S.E.'s idea of 'bottlenecking' is more of draining a dam out of a pinhole. For me, it isn't fun having to get maybe 2 or 3 claims in 10 minutes for an item i don't want to pay 400+ gil for. In conclusion, Square Enix's idea on a lot of gathering is to allow a few people to monopolize on an item and keep the poorer people paying huge sums for a tiny bit of resource to help them get further in the game.