said by cymraeg:theres a reason for it cael, armour and hp are way up once you get to the land of the panderan, take you highest geared toon to highlands and kill something around the twilight fort, very easy right now, now plop that guy down in panderia and make sure you dont aggro more than 2 or you may end up dead, they hit harder and can take a hit as well.
Sounds like fun. Questing is MUCH more interesting, when you might actually get beat up a bit.
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And, I understand the reason for the inflated stats, since everything else (HP, damage, heals) is going up as well, for both character toons and mobs. Just that I remember seeing some "ask the devs" type stuff from about a year ago, where they were saying that they were concerned about stat inflation, and that they were considering going through some kind of "statistical squashing" when the next expansion came out. Looks like they decided to leave well enough alone.