Least favorite mob in game: vent session

[graeberguinn]

As title states let's vent about mobs we hate the most in game. The ones who annoy you hard AF. The ones who are the bane of your existence. The yang to your yin. 

 

For me: Malta Sappers

Maybe on the right toon with the right build, ok. But hot diggity dog if they get 1 up on you you'll have 1-2 sec before you're whiffing from -end loss, completely drained and praying for blue candies to suck down or to regain just enough +end to use a blue bar filler upper power. I hate those guys.

 

What say you all? Least favorite worst mob in game for you?

[TheMoneyMaker]

Definitely Sappers

[Maagic]

For lower level characters, I struggle with Vahz. Mid level, Devouring Earth mushrooms that put me to sleep. High level, Sappers and Knives give me trouble. 

[KaizenSoze]

Low level: Snakes. same reason as Vazh. Lots of toxic damage and they hit hard too.

[Icono04]

Syndicate Sword Adepts. At the level you encounter them on goldside, their defense debuff is a major problem.

[tidge]

For me it's probably Carnie Illusionists. I tend to get frustrated more by critters that run away (Warwolves, et al.) or become otherwise unhittable.

[Ukase]

Any NPC that phases are the most annoying to me. Master Illusionists..and that darn phantasm decoy which doesn't phase, but can't kill it. 

[Billbailey96]

Sky raider porters and Tsoo Sorcerers, basically anyone who can teleport away and make fighting them turn into an annoying scavenger hunt. Especially on kill 'em all missions. 

[Skyhawke]

Any that put me in a detention bubble. I rarely notice until nobody's hitting anybody and then I'm just annoyed for several seconds. 

[The Trouble]

More than any other mob in the game: The one guy tucked behind a rock somewhere on a defeat all Oranbega map.

[biostem]

I can handle sappers.  It's those phasing enemies, like carnie illusionists, or ones that can taunt/confuse you, that really ruffle my feathers, (but at least a break free can help with the confusion)!

[ZeeHero]

3 hours ago, KaizenSoze said:

Low level: Snakes. same reason as Vazh. Lots of toxic damage and they hit hard too.

Recently did a buncha those missions solo with my new villain, given she is a scrapper.

[electric_emu]

Tsoo Sorcs are the absolute worst.  They run away only to come back, delete your to-hit, and heal their friends.  And since they're LTs they're harder to drop quickly than, say, Sappers.

 

I also hate the DE summons.  I always struggle to target them when surrounded, then have to go dig up the macro for the 857th time.

[JKCarrier]

Sappers are the worst, especially teamed up with Gunslingers. "Surprise! You're frozen stiff AND completely drained!"

[Aracknight]

Family bosses with Singularity.  Eff those guys right in their effing ears.

[Mopery]

In Cimerora, Immunes Surgeons. They like to stand waaay back with their long range heals, making you wonder where all that damage you just did went.

[Go0gleplex]

Yeah...I gotta go with Sappers too as the most annoying. Especially if I'm running an End hog toon.   Pretty much have mobs I treat as primary drop-first targets with most of the villain groups though even if they may not be the strongest mob present. Sky Raider Engineers, Illusionists, & Fortunata-types for example. 

[Techwright]

Malta sappers, though I have to give dishonorable mention to Night Widows with their blind abilities.   I don't think I'd mind it so much if the blind didn't last as long as it does.  Repeated hits just add to the frustration as well:

 

*Blinded*

Hah, hah!  I have a yellow inspiration.  Blind solved!  No multi-minute wait for me!

Bam! *blinded*

Oh, for the love of ...

[BZRKR]

I think it's only the ones that aren't worth any xp or inf.

[ZemX]

2 hours ago, Aracknight said:

Family bosses with Singularity.  Eff those guys right in their effing ears.

 

I am thankful I do not get motion sickness in video games, but for anyone who does, I am not sure we can say there's another change that HC devs have done that can actually make players physically ill the way this can.

 

It was seriously a bad idea.  It would be fine if the effect was just to drag you towards the Singularity, but the way it seems to work, especially when there's more than one acting on you, is to violently bounce you all over the area.  And guess what? On a full team there tend to be at least two Family bosses with Singularities in EVERY spawn.  So good luck if you are trying to use Break Frees to solve this.  You either need to stay away at range or play a melee that has Repel mez protection.  My fave tanker, a Rad Armor, doesn't. Sadly.

[MonteCarla]

Vazhilok with their -Recharge toxins seem especially egregious at the lower levels where you encounter them, when you don't have much of an attack chain built up.

 

[WumpusRat]

While sappers are annoying, they're fairly easy to deal with.

 

But you know who isn't? Vanguard bosses/elite bosses and their gee danged curse of weariness.

 

10 minutes of -50 max end. There's nothing you can do about it. You just have to wait it out. 

[Lyte Stryke]

18 minutes ago, WumpusRat said:

While sappers are annoying, they're fairly easy to deal with.

 

But you know who isn't? Vanguard bosses/elite bosses and their gee danged curse of weariness.

 

10 minutes of -50 max end. There's nothing you can do about it. You just have to wait it out. 

I thought that there was a vanguard buff you could purchase with RWZ merits to protect or cure you from this? Nectanebo Cursebreaker, from the crafting tables by the base portal

[The Chairman]

54 minutes ago, WumpusRat said:

While sappers are annoying, they're fairly easy to deal with.

 

But you know who isn't? Vanguard bosses/elite bosses and their gee danged curse of weariness.

 

10 minutes of -50 max end. There's nothing you can do about it. You just have to wait it out. 

 

31 minutes ago, Lyte Stryke said:

I thought that there was a vanguard buff you could purchase with RWZ merits to protect or cure you from this? Nectanebo Cursebreaker, from the crafting tables by the base portal

 

@Lyte Stryke is correct. Still a pain in the rear, but at least you can do something about it if you have the Vanguard Merits.

 

That aside, my least favorite mob is any Nemesis Lieutenant. That whole cast Vengeance upon defeat thing is more annoying than it's worth since I tend to play at least a +N/x6 by the time I regularly encounter Nemesis missions. For those, I just drop difficulty to 0/x0 and rush the mission. I can make up the XP elsewhere, but it's still annoying.

[Clave Dark 5]

15 hours ago, Icono04 said:

Syndicate Sword Adepts. At the level you encounter them on goldside, their defense debuff is a major problem.

I was going to say Gold side foes.  I haven't been back since before Live ended because of them, all these low levels toons of mine (solo or not) would walk down some ramp and three guys would go BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA and somehow have a wide enough cone to hit everyone and each BUDDA took off like a fifth of health.  No thanks.