Seriously, I hate this. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate this and how often it happens. I start getting used to the mob level challenge, almost full Iron set venturing into the swamp looking for further crypts, so I can make swords and shields, 2 skeletons show out of thin air.

Me: "That's nothing, hack and proceed"

by the time they're on top of me, 1 more skeleton and an archer join the swarm.

Me: "It's ok, I can handle this, did it a number of times before, retreat a little bit turn around trees, take them one by one"

The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ flying ghost joins the swarm.

Me: "Still cool, I can take this, Just parry the ghost, hack and slash it along with the skeletons it's the only threat in here, Did it countless other times, these ghosts die in 3 hits".

Parry the Ghost, attack it while it's staggered, I take around 1/8 of its health.

Me: "Oh... this ♥♥♥♥ again... power creep amongst the swarm..."

retreat as far away as I can so that when I die, my loot won't be in such a horrible place.

Needless to say, it's the swamp, so you can only run and jump so little before another mob shows up and blocks your path when the Power Creep is 2 steps and 1 hit from killing you.

I'm sick of how often this ♥♥♥♥ happens. I start getting the hang, and the game shoves a mob that's identical to the other 20 times you fought that guy, but this one is special, it deals 5 times the damage every other mob like it that I fought before and it's a bullet sponge. Some swamp man archer that deals 5 times the damage of every other swamp archer I've fought before, or a plains goblin that breaks 5 times the number of bones than the others while still looking like an ordinary mob.

That's NOT HOW YOU DESIGN GAMES. THe player must be alerted that there is a special creature that's stronger than the others and even when that happens it's a 1x1 encounter. Did you on Megaman, Sonic, Double Dragon or whatever game encounter ordinary mob in the middle of a swarm that looked exactly like the others but it was a Power Creep? NO.

This is specially frustrating because it's become the only situation where I get killed. Because the game will literaly disguise a VERY IMPORANT info, that there is a power creep amongst that swarm, a mob that's 5 times stronger than every other version of it that I fought.