As a dungeon runner...

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They can't go back to the old 3 mob spreads anymore, they just don't work anymore in the context of the story.

Back in ARR and Heavensward they fit. You're still a fairly new adventurer and still human by most standards... But by the time you get to Stormblood the powers and abilities you wield are just god like. And now you're an extra dimensional traveler in Shadowbringers... and far too strong to have 3 minions being some kind of threat the way they were when you were still a newbie adventurer in ARR.

It's like it was in AD&D once you got past 12th level. And later in 3rd Edition level 20. You weren't some weak normal adventurer slaying goblins and orcs anymore... you were traversing the Planes of existence and fighting demons, devils, and demi gods.

That's where this game is now.

You quite literally would need to be facing an Army of Minions going into these dungeons just like you did in NWN Online.

That's why these dungeons make no sense anymore even though they do when you are lower level.

So it literally needs to be mass mob spam.

Sure there are other things you can throw in there. But in the context of how powerful the Warrior of Light as become over the expansions... and people and their characters in general... well it really has to be that way now, and the power level of the characters themselves shows it in their abilities and how over the top they really are these days.

I mean when I started in ARR, as Arcanist way back when you really were just a weak starting adventurer. Heck I felt pretty god like at the end of Heavensward due to the Dreadwyrm Trance.

Then along came the Stormblood expansion and they tried to shoe horn it back into the old newbie days when it just didn't fit anymore.

You really just have to be running something on the level of Castle Never now or it doesn't make sense in the context of the story anymore.

The number of enemies have nothing to do with your power in the story. You go to a dungeon and kill whatever gets in your way. If you want, you can think that the rest ran away after seeing you kill their friends.