Shelob Boss Fight - Difficulty

To be honest, I'm not sure if this is a bug or this is an intentional switch over in difficulty. There were four of us handling the Shelob fight at the end of the Spider Caverns and we got pretty wrecked, despite the fact it was probably a tier 1 or tier 2 fight with mainly lower level characters. I enjoy a good challenge, and maybe it'd have been doable with some a larger party of the higher level players on the server, but the rate at which Shelob's hatchlings were coming out was pretty insane. I think 2-3 came out of each egg, and Shelob was spitting 2 egg webs almost every round. We were swarmed with a count of 23 from my screenshot, and probably 30-40 by the time the server crashed (which I'm not sure if is the result of us creating so many spawns). The rest of the regular spider spawns [not boss fight] were actually pretty easy with the group -- we got maybe one brood spawn, as our collective level probably wasn't too high. Maybe the fault's on us for not bringing more than one gunner in a party of four, as those eggs are pretty much impossible via melee to reach as they're surrounded by a web AoE and have 50+ HP, but uh, maybe it can also look at taking a little nerf.


This also seems to contrast with my experience of the boss in the cultist lair, which is more of a joke than anything else, even after hitting up post-update.


I'll try and test this out with higher level players before sounding off on it being nerfed, actually. I think everyone might've actually ran it a few times and it was just a high end tier with characters that weren't appropriately leveled enough to match it.