Totally agree. Bandits were almost perfect before they added the insane grouping mechanic where they always bring half the camp with them.This games PVE, and new player experience, are insane levels of ass. I have like 5 clade gifts because I just don't feel like wasting my time on the boring 0 fun PVE to get more. Being a new player who cant craft and cant do anything, solo, is virtually unplayable. Solo bandit farming on foot is complete aids and never worth doing at most spawns. Its farm Gy until you get bored and quit. Which many new players have done.
Yet for some reason they designed the map to hold 10k lmao... So its just a giants dead empty sandbox wit ha few grains of sand in it.
They were perfect medium level content for solo players. Something a solo player could progress to after the graveyard. Challenging and fun, but not as hard as risars.
Now they are completely impossible solo especially with Veterans, unless you are an MA in which case everything becomes super easy.
So solo players have 3 choices: farm graveyard, farm animals, or roll an MA. So stupid.