Originally posted by Sev:

Are you talking about the big 1 and 2 star versions of mobs. It does show you...

The ghost is already on top of me when it shows up and I'm not generaly counting stars when 5 mobs swarm on me on a biome where I have to decide whether to jump or run.

Besides, the stars is a "really poor bandaid" to the fact the devs decided to stop making different version of a mob (like how you can easily tell a Brute from the other Graydwarfs) and decided to straight use power creeps that look identical to ordinary mobs.