It seems we rather severely underestimated the extra difficulty that so
many mobs defending each other would cause, for which I apologize. My
fault.

After the land auction, I'm going to be spending time today tweaking how
they fight. I suspect what I'm going to do is make it so that when
you're in a group, mobs will jump to each other's defence by randomly
attacking someone in the group with you rather than just the person who
attacked. That way, taking on a group of 8 mobs is quite doable, just
not by yourself. The bigger the group of mobs you're taking on, the more
people you'll need. Happily, it will also severely limit the ability of
high level people to drag around low level people and let them get xp
without any risk to themselves.

Penned by my hand on the 8th of Mayan, in the year 376 AF.