Sorrowdusk Isle - Uber Mephits?

[kelabb]

This morning I was running Sorrowdusk Isle (on normal) with a party of 5 plus a healer hireling. From memory we had a couple 8's, a couple 7s and a 6. We did pretty good until the last quest where we need to rid the temple of mephits. Well, we wiped!

I've run this series a few times, but this is the first time since the last update, and I don't remember the mephits being so uber on previous runs? I can confidently say I was with stronger (higher level toons) parties previously, but I'm sure the mephits were nothing more than a nuisance.

Has anybody else noticed the mephits being stronger, or is it all down to party strength?

[Diddly1]

I ran this the other night with my brother and a few hirelings--granted, not the best setup, I know. But I've run this on other toons, both with a full party of real people, and with just one or two others and a hireling cleric. Ran through Greymoon with no problems, but we, too, encountered the uber mephits, and suffered a party wipe. Guess I'll just have to chalk it up to changes with the updates. Seems like the more I play, the more I realize that hirelings are fairly useless, up to a point, and it pays to group with people that know the quests. More and more quests that I've run through with no previous problems seem to be getting more difficult.

[BLAKROC]

yes they are a bit harder, esp with dungeon scaling.

parties of 4 or fewer have it a bit easier.

and if i remember right it is a lvl 10 quest so 6's and 7' will stuggle a bit with the mephits.

[Shade]

They've always been a decent chanllenge. Especially the air ones with there unresistable piercing/disorientation breath.

Perhaps your previous runs just included a very strong member that took care of them for you.

Most of my underpowered runs thru that quest in groups I just set up shield blockers at door and nuke the mephits. Safest way.

[Fenrisulven6]

Ya know, I always hate it when people respond with "are you sure its plugged in"... but

did you have the same resists/protects that you usually have?

That may have made the difference. But I'll have to check on those mephits, I miss the "foul miasma"

[dunklezhan]

The fire mephits are definitely tougher than normal ones. First time through soloing normal with my monk I'd had no trouble at all and then BAM! Dead, 1 second too far away to make it to the shrine to res and take relevant resist pots.

However, the next time, with the appropriate handwraps on and a fire resist pot, they were no trouble at all. Its just a question of being prepared. I can't recall running into the Air ones. I'm not honestly sure how to deal with them when I get to them, haven't played the monk for a while and still have to finish the sorrowdusk chain.