Suggestion: STOP ADDING AMBUSHES TO EVERY DAMN MISSION

Going to have to agree here. My poor lowbie blaster was constantly running on empty through the First Ward missions. They started out fun enough, but after the ambushes just kept on coming, health and end plummeted, and my inspirations disappeared, there was little I could do but just die and regroup.

I forget which mission it was, but I had multiple groups of mobs on me all the time. I couldn't even get one group down before the next one was on me. With a squishie character who has few options slotting/power wise, maybe still running training IO's, with minimal DO's, this is simply stressful.

I don't mind dying so much for the most part, but I did notice something that'd I'd never run across in this game before. Ambush mobs camping the mission door waiting for me after I got back from the Hosp. This might have been a bug and I didn't take note of the mission name/s, but it was -not- something I was expecting and after having already face-planted due to too many mobs, it was in no way amusing or fun.

One of the missions that really made me want to hurl my keyboard was the new mission involving Col. Duray and the blasted constant ambush spawning of Sky Raider Engineers with their awesome little bubble generators. *Swish swish* (and watch the End bar drop) over and over... so not fun. (Goes hand in hand with that quest where you have to destroy the Dirge of Chaos demon, who spawns in many little to-hit sapping ghosty pals to play with you. /cry )

I love the ambushes. All of them. A short time ago it seemed they were all done with them and every mission was routine. Bored me to death. I look at every one as a combat lesson in never letting your guard down. You should be expecting them around every corner by now. I hate it when "I" mess up and blow the ambush, not because the game threw out more then I could handle, but because I'm half asleep at the keyboard or distracted by real life. What ever the reason I learn from it and don't let it happen again. AE farms work the same way. People do the same one or two everytime they know what to expect and they come prepared.
My stables are full of Squishy's I usually run solo and I say, "BRING ON THE AMBUSHES!"

Praetoria is level 50 content, scaled down badly.

The story is great. The mob strength and ambushes are not.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Now, I can't put my finger on it, but over the years have we not complained about something or other that the devs have overused in the past? It always has seemed something that we would run into over and over and over again, yet a few months later we'd all be wondering "What happened to them?"

It's like with a friend of mine, who will latch onto a favorate word that he will overuse, thinking that he's clever for using it. For the longest time it was 'alacrity', and from time to time he'll still use 'penultimate'. He keeps on doing this because he thinks it makes him look smart and savy, when all it does is make him look silly for trying to do so. I keep trying to tell him "Look, I know who you're trying to impress here with that, but trust me, they arn't...and may even be laughing behind your back at that."

That's what's happening here, IMO. The devs are trying to find ways that are new and clever for us, but they are getting old very fast. I'm sure that in a few months we'll see a drop in the number of new missions that are ambush-crazy (but the old ones will still be around, which will become ghost towns, auto-dropped as quickly as possible by players) as the devs find some other way they think will keep our interest.