Ok, I’ve only fought these guys a few times, but each time they were ridiculously tough. The first time was in NW Caledon, a small patch of these, and I was playing a level 30+ Thief that was downleveled to whatever the area was, 15 or so. The second time was this morning, same character, level 69 this time, in the southern border of Mt. Maelstrom. Today I was at least able to defeat one one-on-one, if I as lucky, but two or more would just annihilate me within seconds.
They basically have a charged attack where they throw a shadow bolt or something. This attack can be dodged, but if you can’t, or just fail to dodge it, it deals about 40-50% damage to me in that one shot. Since it has a fairly long range, and they tend to spawn in open terrain, the only way to deal with these attacks in any way is to burn dodges, and they can do this attack faster than dodge tends to regenerate (even on my Thief with Acro-spec). They can also cast some sort of poison cloud, and that poison ticks very powerfully too.
I just don’t get it, why do these guys hit so crazy hard? They hit like Champions, even though they aren’t even Vets, and there just aren’t enough tools to deal with them effectively.
