Guild Wars 2

NPCs are divided into normal, veteran and champion difficulties but overall they seem too random, I have seen some normal mobs that are harder than veterans and veterans that are as easy as a normal NPC and champions that look like veterans.

As it stands this is a bad way to judge the NPC difficulty from a player stand point since we need to actually engage the NPC to be 100% sure, therefore it needs some revision to sort the NPCs correctly.

You do know some of them have more armor, or more damage. Not all veteran mobs have to be as spongy as the rest. But they can still hit for like twice the amount.

can’t really agree here, veterans seem harder than normals and champions harder than veterans. of course some types of enemies are always harder than others, so you have to compare harati veterans to harati normals a.s.o.

The whole point of this is to help the players judge the difficulty level of the NPC and has been used in any other MMO, these thougher NPC are commonly know as Elite mobs even though some like to change it a bit.

My point is that as it stand this is not reliable as I have seen NPCs with as much HP as a veteran being shown as a normal NPC and so on.

This happens a lot in Personal story quest where some “boss” is labeled as a normal NPC, but I have seen this happen in other places as well.

A clean example… You can usually easily fight champions with a group of lets say 10-20 people but if you decide to go for the Krait Witch or the Diessa Plateau Giant you are in for a surprise. Both of them can easily clean-slate a group of 20-30 people in a matter of seconds. So you basically need to engage them in order to realize that you should never repeat that experience again.