Van Cleef

[MongoJerry]

It's a good thing.  It adds a tremendous amount of tension in the gameplay when you get toward the end of an instance - because if your party is wiped out, those hours spent are lost!  Insert quarter and try again, tough luck.  It's the closest you can come to "hardcore" in this game.

I agree completely. It also makes characters with the ability to resurrect members of their party that much more important. If all of the mobs stayed dead, then the resurrection spells and abilities would only be a minor convenience rather than something vitally important.

Incidentally, the rules on what mobs respawn are different from instance to instance. Named mobs never respawn in any instance. In some instances, it seems that all normal mobs do respawn. In others, only patrolers respawn, while mobs with fixed locations do not. In some areas, like the Van Cleef instance, the rules change depending on what part of the instance you're in. So the rules are a little complex at the moment. However, I agree with Bolty, that I like the idea of normal mob respawns in instances.