A true story of a fight

[mwatt]

Today, with my 46 Ranger, I decided to hunt in the Emerald Jungle for a bit. I picked an Erollisi Bloodthorn. These are Warrior mobs, around level 39 at highest.

I snared one to pull it back to a bit safer area. The snare stuck, but my, this thing ran pretty fast, even snared. Still it did not catch me.

I began to do battle and it was hitting hard and fast. My AC being a Ranger, is not great - low 800s - but it was ripping me up with hits up near the max of it's range.

I decided to root, dot and heal. I dotted with Stinging Swarm from my arms, and cast Root - all good. I healed a little and sat down to med. I knew that the duration of the root could/would last as long as the swarm. However, it broke early. So I melee a little more and it keeps ripping me up. I decide to free dot, snare, and arrow kite it some. Cast snare, resisted! Cast again, stuck. Cast Stinging Swarm, resisted! Cast snare, stuck. So I turn to run to get distance to arrow kite... .and the thing smacks the crap out of me from about 50 yards behind me.

I do make the distance, and start trying to arrow kite... but it is so fast, even snared! It gets too close and smacks me again. Suddenly I am 19 health and afraid. I give up and bail out of the fight - I do manage to run away and get safe, as I am sowed.


So... level 46 me against a level 39 mob. I lost, fighting with the tools of my class. This is not a story about the weakness of Rangers. It is just one fight... but the untoward mishaps that occurred within this fight are not uncommon. It is a story that is intended as a lead-in to pose this question...

Have adjustments gone too far? Is this game HARDER than classic? It seems to me that maybe AC, resists and mob run speed might all need to be looked at.