Carbuncle.Bukadan said: »
makes you wonder if the people complaining about the difficulty are aware that it could get gimped for parties under 18 members (a la delve) and are in fact expecting it to happen because of their complaining, rather than meet the "competency" requirement.
Though I would argue that less HP =/= gimping.
Especially not with Vagary. These NMs were shockingly disappointing, as in: they're easy as sin, just have a lot of HP.
There's no Mayhem moves, no 150HP/tic poison aura, no un-poisona-able poison, no damage shield (like Akvan or Shadow Lord, Plouton and the leg NM have that absorb element thing, but that's more as punishment for not doing it right.), no crazy large AoEs at all, no nothing.
All they have going for them is a shitton of HP.
And I for one welcome a scaling HP, because then the 4~6 drops can go to 6 people. Rather than 12~18.
(I actually did one of them 8man, was still sinfully easy... It was just boring as hell because it took longer than the 12 and 18man PUGs I've done. Not to mention walking away mutliple times from runs with nothing to show for it. Drops are the biggest reason why I am all for scaling HP. Cause Vagary couldn't be any more easy.)