For players who currently have bad gear its pretty much a catch-22 since you will need the gear offered as rewards from quests in order to kill the monsters but need to kill the monsters in order to get the gear. On my troub, who now has no crit mit whatsoever due to them removing innate crit mit for unknown reasons, I didn't actually notice most of the mobs doing tons of damage but rather that they took about 10 times longer to kill. A 89 no arrow mob in sf I could one shot with my bow now it takes me almost 10 seconds to kill a 89 no arrow mob in DoV.