Less shield walls, less enemy?

[royalewithcheese]

My "learn to feint" comment is directed at people that believe they need shields to survive. There are a host of players that manage to play without resorting to shield spam. Beyond that, if you actually waited a tiny bit longer to see the full extent of the changes being rolled out before resorting to swearing at players then you might find that it is not all doom and gloom

It looks like you're privy to some information and I'm glad to here that changes are forthcoming. But can you please share some of these team tactics you keep talking about, instead of telling us to "learn to feint"? From my admittedly limited experience with other players in hard mode, it's nigh impossible to get past the first three or four waves without resorting to shields or some kind of turtleing. I'm not level 52, I just hit commando, and I can only take a few hits from early mobs. But I'm not a half-bad player, and I'm obviously open to any team-oriented methods of working through hard mode. "Learning to feint" will only help us so far, though, and doesn't speak to any of these team-based tactics you've mentioned.