Rare Elites in Zaralek Caverns and Forbidden Reach

My one point I’ll add is that Future-proofing is generally a good idea when solving a problem. The population numbers in ZC are only going to trend in one direction over time, fewer people. Murderballs might be viable at the 10.2 release population levels, but will that remain true indefinitely? No. The same problem will re-occur as the population dwindles naturally over time. Reducing the HP and making them solo-able both fixes the problem immediately, AND future-proofs the problem to not requiring murderballs in the future when they just simply will never have a critical mass of people enough to exist. Higher ilvls and such do serve to make this possible, but skill levels vary wildly between groups of players, and I dont think rares are intended to be a part of the game where individual player skill or itemlevel is a significant determining factor gatekeeping participation in their gameplay. The problem will naturally be solved by significant ilvl increases such as via next expansion releases, but that doesn’t solve the problem in the interim period deadspace between murderballs and pure ilvl brute force invalidation.

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