Mobs I Hate: A Place to Rant

[Fhrek]

Any mob with Dispel (excluding Beholders, it is an innate ability, not a dispel spammer abuse), because they will spam it as crazy, seems to have no countdown, no criteria or any restriction... they just spam ad nauseum.

 

[Col Kurtz]

I h8 champs that spawn with a combo that makes them nearly immune to damage

heroic von3 this life> the red troll mini boss had a Pumkin head buff... took me about 5 minutes to chop him down w my base 30 damage axe(which is pretty OP for lvl 9-11) Beholder aggro'd at same time and made for a brutally insane solo fight. I was 10 lvls down and still lived somehow...popping restore lvl pots between swings, then finishing the Troll.

I swear he was only taking 20-25 pts on crits that do over would usually 400+ to other enemies & he was regenerating too of course.

I guess it was fun >since I completed ....but close to hate a real luv2h8

 

[Vorph]

Mobs i hate: Epic/legendary rats. Its so dumb that rats are the most dangerous enemies in the game and the ones that hit close to the hardest. Especially at higher levels. The fact that they have nothing special to their combat makes them so boring.

 

[Cranjis]

Another one I should mention are Lizardfolk shamans in Saltmarsh, like how they spam splinterbolt. And that hurts now that splinterbolt is good.

 

[Hoka]

Quell's

 

[Cranjis]

Quell's

That is on the list, yep

 

[nenetteblackmoor]

An NPC who gives the Cult of the Six and Tangleroot Gorge quests.

Say it all at once!
Don't make me repeat the same thing over and over!

I want a quest where I can kill them and side with the opposing forces.

 

[kmoustakas]

phase spiders

Was gonna complain about all sorts of things but yeah phase spiders are the worst.

What I hate most is mobs that jump into the water but can't swim yet instead of drowning teleport and get fully healed.

 

[Blunt Hackett]

Any church pew you can't destroy, because wooden benches are my IRL favored enemy.

Anything casting a spell that makes the whole screen bright is #1 on my list. It does a lot for immersion, but I'd almost rather be punched in the throat.

Reapers and the air elemental in A Small Problem

Not technically mobs, but the ballistas in epic Storm the Beaches are the worst.

Beholders are easy in this game as long as you keep Beholder Optic Nerves on hand and/or any of the many negative energy absorption equipment. If not, then yeah, they're an absolute pain.

 

[Altra]

Scorps arent so bad since they changed burrowing AI

But yeah, I think the horrible mobs all fall into two broad categories:

- Phasing mobs, ie ones that are periodically unkillable, and there's nothing you can do about it
- Mobs that apply a super annoying CC, either long term or repeated CC spam, and there's nothing you can do about it

I applaud diversity in combat, and I love when mobs are more than just their TTK and DPS...but I dont like when its arbitrary and indefensible. I'd really like to see more telegraph-and-react mobs, where knowing when to dodge or block or counterstrike will help mitigate a mob's engineered difficulty.

I'd like to add
Mobs that jump around like crickets on crack. (Looking at you, Kobolds)

 

[Contessor]

Wisps have to be up there.

 

[Kritikal]

Bats, Ravens, Phase Spiders, Scorpions, Crawfish.

 

[Brakkart]

Phase Spiders (I've hated them ever since the original Baldur's Gate game!)
Air Elementals (Never had any great desire to be the ball in a Pinball game!)
Kobolds (Stand still when I'm trying to kill you you little %*££%^%%!!!)
Ogre Mages (Oi, Get back here!)
Forgotten Realms Drow (I fricking HATE their paralysis poison coated weapons. If only the Neutralize Poison spell hadn't been nerfed to oblivion)

 

[Col Kurtz]

i dont h8 the Sands Drow... but a D&D game designer that put those Drow to suffer in the desert sun may deserve a flogging

 

[droid327]

I'd like to add
Mobs that jump around like crickets on crack. (Looking at you, Kobolds)

There are tactics you can use to counter these guys. Strategic backpedaling/strafing is the player skill that's most useful. Jump-attacking can also help a lot whenever you have side-targeting issues, since jumping up and looking down works the same as stepping back. Use that on bats a lot, which are even worse than kobolds

 

[Cranjis]

After rerunning Dreaming Dark today I am happy to add Dream Crawlers. Phase spiders I can deal with, they phase out and phase back in fairly quick and are easy to put down. Crawlers, however, are like Phase spiders on crack, as they have a lot more hp and take much longer to phase back in...and they likely will phase back to a completely unexpected location.

 

[mbartol]

Another meta-type enemy would be any with poor pathing syndrome.

 

[Memnir]

 

[Hobgoblin]

asking for a friend.... is this where i put yo mama?

random thought

 

[Synalon]

Devs: take note for the planned challenge dungeons