The Voracious Bleeders (commonly referred to as the superaggro land crossing piranhas) were removed a long time ago, mainly because they use to all end up trained to the CL zone line bridge. And the moment you zoned in you would be getting killed even while the zone loaded. They never could get them to stay in the water.
Enter the far more annoying flaming bats (shrillers of various flavours). If these aren't the most annoying mobs in all of Thules creation I wonder what is. They spread out in a huge formation, usually spanning the bridge or the path etc. Don't bother trying to clear them with an AOE attack as they start out so far seperated you will only ever hit one. For social mobs they aren't very social to each other, until one spots you of course.
What I would like to see is the ability to destroy the forest flares (I think that is their name, the glowing fire the shrillers seem to circle) and lessen the spawn of these mobs for say 30 mins. Give you a chance to fight the owlbears, sentries etc without having to constantly look up.
Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with Nektulous Forest difficulty wise. Yes the travel is annoying but can now be easily bypassed by completing the Griffon Egg quest.
I also second the opinion of the OP though that the treants pathing through the N'Marrs ascent tower, and often stopping inside it is bad design. Remove that pathing and have them patrol the path or valley to either side. No station in TS is even remotely hindered by mobs, why does this one get special treatment.
And while I am on a roll, what genius decided to add a spawn point for bears and treants in the middle of the rivers (hint A slow but previously reliable way to bypass a lot of the aggro land based mobs). I think that is Nek's main problem, way too many mobs with overlapping pathing, huge aggro radius and group mobs spread out over too large a distance. The atmosphere is appropriate but the zone will always be an underutilised version of TS due to the fact it contains way to many ways to become frustrated just trying to play.
Sark.
Message Edited by Sarkoris on 03-31-200607:47 AM