Never posted on forums before but this got me.
Yup. I agree entirely. Removing the snipers was a bad move, as they put so much more pressure on me to eliminate them and watch for telegraphs. The enemy HP was also reduced far to greatly. I felt like I was just out in Kessex mowing mobs down with aoe again. 0 consequences for poor play. In addition, the npc’s in the story mode will help you up if you get downed anyway; you can’t lose. There shouldn’t be the same catering to new players in HOT that there is in the core game. Everyone in Maguuma has made it through the game and understands how combat works, they should be challenged, not pandered to. Please please please don’t water down the challenging combat we’ve all been looking forward to. BWE2’s balance was excellent.