I found Jennur’s Horde troublesome back when I first tried the Guild Wars Nightfall mission in 2006 and I found it nightmarish as I attempted it in Hard Mode on Saturday. It took hours to beat this mission and I’m at a loss to explain why.

The foes are certainly faster and stronger in Hard Mode but I’ve earned Master’s rewards for 44 Hard Mode missions before Jennur’s Horde so I should have adapted to that by now. I also had the added advantage of knowing the mobs in the mission as well as the abilities of individual foes so I shouldn’t have had as bad a time of it as I did. Yet, I did and I’m still not quite sure why.

Perhaps it was due to the fact the last mission I played required aggressive moves and I was still locked in that mindset when I tackled Jennur’s Horde a day later. As I noted in my review of Nightfall over a year ago, Jennur’s Horde, even in Normal Mode, requires patience and canny aggro management and unfortunately, I had to learn that all over again the painful and time-consuming way.
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