I have characters ranging from 19 to 15, 1 of each AT. Since Issue 2 I've been having a blast. I've really enjoyed the new tougher mobs, especially when playing in groups. I didn't agree with all the new changes but I thought they were an improvement when taken as a whole. Then I end up in a solo Tsoo Mission from hell.
My 19 Tanker is battling 2 Sorcerers and 3 minions for his first fight. I am always in caltrops. The 2 sorcerers heal everything I fight. I win the fight by having every Tsoo burn all their endurance and then use the Tsoo's Combat AI against them to defeat them (long convoluted stratagy). I basically win because I have Invincibility and the long dragged out battle gives me the time to notice the patterns used by the Tsoo. It ends up being a very long, boring as hell battle with a rewarding finish.
Next fight is an Ancestor Spirit and an Ink Man. It's a non stop series of stun attacks. I stun them, they stun, mezz me. Again I win thanks to Invicibility. Its an annoying battle with no rewarding finish.
These 2 battles repeat themselves over and over. I keep telling myself this is just a bad mission and I just have to get thru it. Then I hit 3 Ink Men. I never close for battle. They never use any power but Mez. I have from 2 to 5 mezz effects on me at all times. I stand there unable to move and slowly watch my hit points bleed away. With half my hit points gone, I break free of the multiple mezz effects and run away.
I camp my character out and decide to come back another day with a team. I camp out knowing that I could have won the battle. The Ink Men would run out of Endurance and then I would finish them off just like the sorcerers earlier. I just don't have the willpower left to finish the mission anymore.
The whole point here is, I was enjoying Issue 2. It was fun solo, it was fun in groups. I had problems (mobs vanishing during defeat all missions) but I was happy with the overall improvements that Issue 2 gave. Then I hit this mission and for the first time ever in this game I gave up on a mission and walked away. I walked away without ever dying. I walked away making real good experience and influence. Issue 2 is more challenging than the old game, but some of the new power combos suck a lot of the new fun out of it. Constant wading thru caltrops and recovering from stuns isn't fun. Its challenging, just not fun. I'll take a Vahz mission over another Tsoo mission like the one I just described. I might die a few times in a Vahz mission but I'll be in a furious fight to the death instead of the slow, agonizing bleeding I took on that Tsoo Mission.
