I arrived in the Mistlands after the change so all I know is how it is now. I love the place when I'm not dying and spending 3 hours getting back to a corpse that gjall, a 1 star seeker and another seeker are hovering over with gjall spewing ticks like popcorn. I hate think what it was like before the change but we ran into a 1 star soldier in a dungeon and I said, "run!". Our only hope was that step at the entrance soldiers can't get over. Seekers though, damn their AI they are smart at times.