No matter it is in the open map or in a story quest, overwhelmed by a thousand mobs and their spells is not fun. Everything try to knock me down and I have 2 skills to counter them a few second each. All 11 of my toons finished HoT plus Living World. Only 3 of them went through the PoF story and I don't want to do it anymore.PoF elite specialization is seemingly weaker than HoT's, Mirage and Holosmith for example. New elite spec. made our ranged classes become melee without enough compensations, this is where the weakened feeling came from.