I'm very late for that but less than the previous time. I'm exploring SA content. It's great, there's a lot of thing, but I'm a bit intrigued by the difficulty of the thing there.
First of all my Imbuing skill doesn't rise much. I feeding my gargoyle with bags of loot and the skill gain from the loot of a hunting session (a looting session I should say because killing isn't the problem) is very limited. I'm still at the beginning of it and I can't use it yet to imbue my stuff.
Secondly I went to the Abyss by the Tomb of Kings thanks to guides. Without them I'd have no clue how to enter. I'm happy I've found a good spawn to farm for ingredients for fixative, but I'm a bit troubled by the Abyss itself. I decided to go to the cavern of the discarded to get crystalline blackrock for the coming event, but at the first bridge, there's a swarm waiting for me. Most of the mobs are not dangerous, but the Fire Demons are exceptionally party breaking. A retargetting system forcing me to heal intensively from behind, lots of HP and a ridiculous loot. I use a dread horse and a nightmare. Am I forced to use a cu sidhe or a greater dragon?
So... ok so far I stopped at the first spawn. When I crossed the bridge, all I saw was more mobs and another fire demon. So I came back to home.
People seem to be talking about this dungeon like it's their second home. Did I miss a stat boost handout?