Ascent of the Awakened: Spawn Time Reduced, but not HP Pools?

[Zoren Northwood]

<div>So, last week two groups of guildies went into Ascent of the Awakened to work on getting eyes.  We got an eye on the first floor, but the effigy wasn't up, so we figured we'd just come back later.  At that time, problems with the zone included the x2 mobs having a ton of hit points (~600k per encounter) and the mobs not respawning unless the named on that floor went down.</div><div> </div><div>Well, we come back today, and the zone is very different.  While the x2 mobs on the first floor still have very large HP pools (~600k per encounter), they now respawn pretty fast.  What this means is that we still have several VERY LONG encounters to clear, but not enough time to do it before the roaming mobs begin to respawn.</div><div> </div><div>It seems to me that this zone is now tuned to an x4 raid force, who would blow through each encounter twice as fast as we did (probably a bit more, as were we low on high-level DPS).  So why are the mobs still tagged as x2s?  Am I missing something major?</div>

[ZababEW]

<div></div>i passed in there 3 hours with my guildmates and i came to the conclusion that it was boring to fight over and over mob who have too much hp for 2 group.

[Raistlan]

What really amuses me about this zone is that Zliten stated in beta that the x2 area was supposed to be balanced to a raid of 65's.......<div></div>

[kyth]

<div></div>   Ascent makes Silent City look fun.  Hoenstly x2 mobs that have way too many hps.  Loot that well....treasured stuff is better most of the time.  For the "uber" guilds i highly doubt they will do this zone after they get gorenaire/talendor for DT access.  I know personally i would be happy to never do this zone again...the end.<div></div><p>Message Edited by kythik on <span class="date_text">03-27-2006</span><span class="time_text">09:32 AM</span></p>

[Scort]

Yea, they have a really twisted and messed up idea of what is fun. 1mil+ hp mobs that drop nothing and a ton of them. I still think the developer needs to be fired or moved to coffee duty.<p>Message Edited by Scortch on <span class="date_text">03-27-2006</span><span class="time_text">01:29 PM</span></p>