In the hope that something constructive can come out of some of the recent discussions: I personally believe that the bugbear spawns on the path to the Ire Mountains are overpowered for something that is that close to a starting place, and that close to the road.
I just tried soloing one spawn (the one to the left of the road on a hill) with both my level 6 druid and my level 9 monk. I belive they both got the same spawn: two bugbears, two bugbear shamans, and two bugbear heroes. My monk was attacked from a distance while still standing on the road, charged the group, and died fairly quickly while being able to kill both bugbears and one shaman. She used two potions of cure medium and her monk heal thingie (18 points healed) but was unable to survive.
My druid stayed back a bit, summoned her animal companion and a dire wolf, cast barkskin and bull's strength on herself, then hit them with two call lightning spells, which killed the bugbears and one shaman outright. The summons and my druid were able to kill the two heroes and remaining shaman while each taking a couple hits.
Due to these, I feel that the path to Ire mountain spawns are overpowered. My lower level character obviously fared better, but is a more flexible character, and I expected this somewhat. I'm curious as to how other characters fare here. Hope this is helpful to the team.
Edit: 1. Just to clarify, my druid summoned things after the bugbears spawned, so it was not inflated due to that. 2. I had intended to do some more reports like this, but given that I died so quickly, I'm kinda scared to now. Any suggestions?
