Guild Wars 2

Ever since about level 30, I have been noticing that the risen in higher level zones are extremely fast in both travel speed and attack speed. Due to this, it has made some tasks much more difficult than the rest of the zone tasks, and has made personal story zones ridiculously hard, even when out leveling the storys minimum level recommendation. I am to the point where I can not progress through the personal story because of this. I am on “shell shocked”, a level 64 personal story, as a level 70 necromancer. My gear is recent, and my ability to solo veterans and their friends has never been an issue, until now. The mobs nearly instantly swarm me and take me to zero health, even with all the npc help around. Evading only works if I dodge before they get to me, or its too late. The veteran abomination, usually a slower monster, manages to get in his massive hits, all in quick succession even if dodged.

I’ve noticed them at Olympic speed too. I always just thought it was “one of those things” and try to avoid them whenever possible. Unfortunately for personal story progression, that’s just not possible.

I’ve just taken the “well, I’m just going to have to die and rez a few times to beat this step” mentality.

Fortunately, it’s worked so far, but if I get to a point where they respawn/reset on death… that’ll be the end of the personal story trail for me. Since I get deleveled, nothing I can do will make me powerful enough to do anything about it.

I’m hoping that doesn’t happen…<fingers crossed>

I believe if you look under the Risen names at their capabilities you will see “Usain Bolt” next to the text that says “Berserking”