Trouble fighting after the patchFollow

Anyone else experience trouble fighting after the patch or is it just me?

I could easily take the lvl 20 lizards in The back of Antonica as a lvl 20 Monk(with fists or bare hands). Now after the patch I can't even hit them. Not once. I have logged several times and tried over and over. I have gotten the same results each time. NEAR DEATH. I almost died fighting a green cause I wasn't paying attention.

Anyone?

I've had a few fights where I had to keep moving until I could damage the mob. I think they messed up collision detection.

I (used to) love killing Green ^^ mobs for drops, but after the big patch, they are a heck of a lot harder for me now. I knew it was coming, but man...

honestly I've not experienced any issues.. but the only class I go for big numbers solo'ing with is with my Conjuror..

I finished my AQ1 fighting ^^ green scarecrows and ^ green 'crows in groups of 2.. no issues at all..

HOWEVER

I am talking about a pet class here which is a totally different animal solo'ing.. I may take my predator out for a spin and see if I can notice anything like what you guys are mentioning.

hehe, no need to say your sorry :D

In the patchnote for 4th jan it was 4 updates.. Dont remember the three others but one was
- Slightly increased melee damage of groupencounters
And yeah, I noticed it too. Aslong as my root stick there is no increase in the damage I take though :p

On a sidenote, Miravelle, if thats you on the avatar.... Wanna be my g/f? I ditch my current straight away npnp! :P

yeah Named mobs are insane...

I saw a double arrow green several levels ago and didn't notice the "name" sent my pet in (adept 1 summon so it can take on normal double ^^ greens easily).

so.. I'm letting pet get aggro watching the numbers.. and I see..

*BAM* 100 pts damage to my pet.. O_O
*BAM* 101 pts damage to the pet again.... O_O

*THEN* i notice name and start running like there's no tomorrow.. and this was before the patch.. LOL.

I've heard a paladin of my level (21 at that time) claim the same thing in Antonica yesterday. Which was very weird, as I had no problems killing the mobs he couldn't hit.

Solo greens go down fast, solo whites a bit harder but I've never had a problem with them so far.

well if you're looking for a mob strength comparison on the solo level.. my only job I can compare with is my Conj at 21st level, since we would be taking equally strong mobs (roughly) compared to your 20 Monk.

Against solo's.. I can honestly say my Conj, has had no problems since the patch... yellows in Thundering Stepps fall just as easily and quickly as Yellows in Antonica (actually easier.. those bears at yellow and orange con are a bit stronger than you think). I've noticed no change in the mobs ability to dish out as well as take damage... Nor have I noticed any significant time increase needed to finish a fight since the patch on anything yellow con or less.

I decided to do a quickie test upon entering TS for the first time and picked a yellow con wolf and crab and a white con snake as a test... this was after the patch, and were it not for someone in these forums saying mob strenght had been increased I would have never known. Against yellows my pet came out a bit damaged which is normal.. against whites and down.. it came out with nearly full health.. again, this is normal.

Against my Conj.. combat with white con or less is like a house of cards trying to stay together in a hurricane, there is simply no comparison.

Yellows require a bit more careful hate management... but it's still not an issue if I'm remotely paying attention and it has always been this way since I dinged Summoner at 10th level sooooo long ago.

now for the official disclaimer: I'm not a warrior class, I play Conj. main.. I can't say something is *NOT* wrong.. all I can say is that the mob strength output and input relative to my pet and myself has not *apparently* changed.. that said if this is obviously a consistent, repeatable issue.. there could be a glitch in the code for the weapon you're using.. or in the armor rating.. not certain. Due to how I fight, I consider a fight tough if I get hit at all.. it's uncommon for me to get touched.. let alone nearly killed.. by anything white or down and my pet comes out of such battles ready for another immediately. So those are my parameters of my test.

23 Shadowknight. I used to take on groups of green cons until the patch. I got alot of great xp off them levels 21-23. I could run up to one of the orc captains (green+ group) in CL with about 8-10 orc warriors (green group) and just hit attack. They would rarely breech my armor and do any damage, miss miss miss miss, although it was a fairly long fight taking them all out, it gave great xp.

I think this is probably one of the reasons group encounters were changed -- to make them less solo'able. Now it is a tough fight for me to take on a group of 3 green con encounters. It is still possible, but not nearly as easy as it used to be. Just yesterday I tried to take on a group encounter of 6 green con rumbleroots and had to feign death before the first one even fell. Where they used to miss, they now seem to always land their hits. 10-20 damage minimum from 6 mobs per round adds up fast when your solo with no healing abilities.

It seems like power/health regen speeds got nerfed sometime recently too. I'm hoping its a /bug (yes I submitted one). It seems to take several minutes for my power bar to fully regen now, and I always use correct tier player made food/drink. I hate to think how slow it would be for someone not using food. So much for never having to wait more than a minute and a half to regen after battle.

My issue is that if you can't solo group mobs, you essentially can't solo at all. What's the point in playing if you can only fight easy solo mobs? That's no fun.

I hope they make it a little easier, but I doubt that will happen.

I've been mostly playing my sorc who dies when someone sneezes at him, so I haven't noticed. He needs to group or take on really easy groups or just "solo".

But if this is not a bug, if this is a real feature - taking down "groups" while soloing was the only thing preserving my sanity (what little of it is left) in this crazy game. If this is real now, the grind is too much. I'm not even going to try to enjoy the 5 months we have left. If this is real I can't take it. I'm going to go cold turkey off mmo's til I can afford and find WoW. Sorry to say that. Pls don't hate me for saying this. But listen, soloing groups wasn't "great" experience - it was just rewarding enough to keep me interested in doing the grind. If the puddingheads who run SoE have decide they need to channel and direct us this much - and keep us from soloing blue and green group mobs... ***** them. Their loss.

Well, I'll go in and see what my other toon can do.

If you are having trouble simply connecting with the mob, maybe they raised its AGI, and maybe your AGI is lacking too much. Its the only thing I can think of besides a bug for this problem. My scout connects pretty much every time and has and AGI of about 60. Hope you can get it sorted out.

I still solo green group encounters np.
Mby time to upgrade your gear?
The increase in the melee dmg done by group mobs was not much, infact it said slightly increased melee damage in patch notes.
Sure its tougher but not impossible.