Guild Wars 2

So I haven’t been in Straits of Devastation in quite a while. But I decided to take my level 76 Necro through there for a bit for world completion tasks. I’m trying to get my last skill point site in the zone at Cathedral of Glorious Victory and am getting wiped out by Veteran Risen Acolytes.

It seems that in the 03/26/2013 patch (according to the wiki) they made these guys able to summon allies. In and of itself, not necessarily a problem. But when I was there today, they seem to be able to summon as many as 10 allies each! Or at least that is the highest number I saw before death.

This seems incredibly excessive to me. Aside from the fact that a lot of critters in this zone have exceptionally large aggro radii, especially risen acolytes and veteran risen acolytes, there is also the issue that even if you can get one of them by themselves (to start), and do not get adds from any of the others in the area, they can summon their own army of adds. It got to the point that at my best, against a single Veteran Risen Acolyte and his minions, with my Flesh Golem at full HP to start, and using my best damage skills, and evading actively the larger attacks, and using full HP, plus heals, plus vampirics, plus full bar of DS, with fully upgraded and level-appropriate equipment, I still went to Downed state before getting the main target down below 25% health. And that is with fully focused fire on the veteran specifically.

After multiple attempts and more than a little repair costs, I concluded that it is simply not possible for me, with my current build and player skill level (which I consider not terrible), to solo these guys. This is a problem, because I can solo pretty much any/every other veteran I’ve ever come across in the game with this build, and a few Champions as well. I understand that the devs may have wanted the Cathedral of Glorious Victory to be a tougher battle, but really, having 3+ MOBs that each are among the most powerful veterans I’ve ever seen and not being part of an event just seems entirely too difficult for a single skill point.

So the question I have is this: Are these guys bugged and summoning way more minions than they should be, or are they working as intended (in which case, why are they intended to be so difficult)?