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[Archon_Wing]

I've enjoyed the game from day 1 so I can only say that it has kept getting better. My only 60 is not all that well geared (zero AH for my toons) so MP2 inferno is still a handful. Right now I've been farming MP5 hell and I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing what I'm seeing. I seem to get double champ/elite packs very often. It isn't that I screw up and run off into the second one, they come along with contact with the first group. Not only do I have double the mobs, but they have different abilities. So, instead of 3, I essentially have a huge mob with 6 abilities. Exciting! "People are dying out there. I don't think 'exciting' is the word I'd choose to describe it!"

Particularly narrow areas often have elite packs that spawn really close together. Though I would say that I've noticed elite packs are very close to each other in the same area, like possibly 3 packs in a very short distance sometimes which didn't happen before.

Try farming Arreat Crater 1/2 and note if you see many more of these double packs compared to elsewhere. Well, farm it anyways once you get 5 stacks since it's one of the best places to pop tons of monsters for drops and gold. And you can get up to ilvl62... it's no joke. Mp10 late act 3 farming in hell is a viable alternative.

The other indirect effect of MP is that normal mode suddenly can become challenging again. However, they should remove the keywardens from outside Inferno, as they have claimed quite a few hc characters. Since they won't give any keys before inferno, that's not a good thing.