This is so much harder (and will the staff be pointless now?)

[Plunderin Mom]

I had been mastering all of the weapons that I thought would be more difficult first. Saved mastering staff and doll until last. Well, I've sure messed things up for myself by waiting to level the staff. What would have been a breeze before the update is now proving very difficult.

It's bad enough that we're getting fewer points per kill than we were getting yesterday, but the real problem is that you cant target more than one enemy at a time unless they're green or gray, and then you get almost no experience points for them. Trying to find yellow level enemies (and only for around 20pts per kill depending on the skill used!) is very difficult. And when you do find one, chances are there will be other things attacking at the same time. Trying to kill a red level enemy is almost impossible without using tonics or dieing, unless you kill it quick for few experience points. Might as well kill the greens and yellows.

I havent been to Kingshead yet, but Im sure leveling with the group of soldiers in the field (for almost no experience points if your weapon is over level 20) will be out of the question now, even at levels 30 - 40 notoriety, unless you have at least one person there healing you.

Anyway, it looks like the staff will be useless (for killing several higher level enemies at a time) unless you have a good healer or two with you. You can still use it to kill one enemy at a time with relative ease, but we can do that with any weapon.

I have mixed emotions about the whole thing. On one hand I'm glad the game will be more difficult to play. I think it was too easy before. And I don't really mind that healers will be needed more. But, I do wish we were getting the same experience points we were used to getting, especially since its more difficult to get them.