Aetherblade Mobs in EOTM - awesome!
They are not hard to avoid if you are sufficiently fast and know where to run. I think part of the reason you got killed is that it was a new encounter for you.
But yeah the 10 stacks of bleeding from the trap hurt a lot if you can’t cleanse them; if you do engage the Aetherblades in a fight I can agree on it being potentially harder than some Silverwastes encounters.
If you are alone defending a Silverwastes fort the situation can get pretty hairy too.
The Aetherblades remind me so, so much of the Peacekeeper mercenaries from “War in Kryta” in that they’re more intelligent and capable of so much damage if you’re not careful . . .
Then there’s the Modus Sceleri goons out there, whose events are all rather interesting.
Seriously, if the old world got a slow revamp to include more things like this, I wouldn’t complain at all.
Dgins loves Aetherblade killin’ as much as fat kids love cake. If you don’t love cake, don’t follow Dgins…wait…that was wrong. If you don’t like cake, don’t follow the Aetherblades? GRRRR…If you don’t like Dgins, don’t eat cake? I give up…
The mobs in regular WvW are harder too, but not that hard.
This goes back to the April ferocity/crit nerf, it went like this: Our damage output was reduced overall (except condis) and to make up for it they nerfed PvE but forgot WvW. So, the Aetherblades have been tough back then but not demi gods like now I like to fight them as well, though they are kind of scary.