A few short days ago I was running CM. It’s how I was choosing to level at the time. I was meeting new people all the time, it didn’t feel like a grind, and it was fun coming up with strategies to beat the different mobs we encountered.
Today I tried to run CM again. I have to say I was very disappointed. Very. It would appear the mobs can now knock you back and do massive damage to you (killing my strategy of blocking the ambush in the door and killing them off with massive AOE, which really was a good idea, oops cant anymore I get knocked back.) In fact the damage on everything seems to have been increased. My damage output at the same time seems to have decreased slightly. You have added new mobs, champions, new spawns, snipers (why would you include those?) one of the snipers hit a fellow player for over 5k damage.
I don’t know what playtests you were running but he was a lvl 44 geared down to 40. This is story mode? I find that hard to believe. You have stated that you allow players to play how they want and level how they want. Well, looks like you changed that idea didn’t you? CM was a relatively good money maker for me and gave good xp on top of that.
So, thank you for that.
That’s my rant.
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