Their base difficulty wasn't changed, but calculations for all combat experience (weapons, armor, etc.) were. It's quite probably that their hard cap is different than in 2.0.

Did you try bone or blood wolves?

Thanks, I'll give blood wolves a shot.

Are the ones on Aesry the same as the ones near Theren in terms of difficulty?

Give Sows a go, for sure. They'll move you straight to Swains if you want boxes.

And remember, in 3.0, even in cloth/leather armor, you're probably going to be massively more survivable than in 2.0, especially if you have buffs.

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A little more info on Sand Sprites. I took my character in there with high 50's/low 60's in Defenses, and high 40's in offense. He was safe and fine.


80 feels like a soft cap. Evasion slowed, tactics basically stopped (I can get it to 1/34 whereas before I was keeping it locked), TM slowed.

I'll try sows and give some feedback for anyone else training up a newbie.

To continue these observations, my character with light armor and no real defensive boost (at this lower level) couldn't handle sows at 90 ranks (when sand sprites stop teaching).


Blood wolves were perfect though.