What a Nightmare!

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@Cascade-21735

I think ENs will still be better XP/h than rats in an organised group, but maybe not by much, so meta might be to run rats for screams, and then use up the ENs, probably with a different configuration.

That’s my take, at least for groups. Solo will probably depend a lot on how much the difficulty changed, but for groups probably not so much because they’re inherently so much more efficient anyhow.

@r0xo-2553

Would it make it more than the last two seasons though?

At the end of the PTR? Absolutely. The XP was insane, especially for solo.
As of this patch? I don’t know. Blizzard could have made adjustments 3 ways (xp rate, drop rate, diffculty) and they chose to go after all 3. Feels, again, like they used their sledgehammer rather than their scalpel.

@DiEoxidE-1987

I can’t imagine them making it harder, as then you would essentially gate the casual audience even in softcore. My hunch is that they went the other way and possibly tuned it down a little to compensate for the lack of a shield pylon. If so, this would benefit HC. (I hope I’m right).

When they specifically state that they made Lunatics and Meteors more deadly, it’s pretty easy for me to imagine their +100 tier adjustment was to make it harder. In this PTR cycle have they made any changes to make EN easier, because every one I recall was done to make it harder.