Woo, don't you just love the devs totally not bullshitting us and making the game harder while disguising it as realistic game changes in Cataclysm?
Because I sure do. Though, that ring sounds completely epic. And I lucked out with the first museum, I've got a xiphos. Really going for that ancient Greek look now, I guess. Another museum and two pawn shops'll be looted soon. Most zombies are dying in two hits now, even specials, and my melee skill is increasing like fucking crazy. I have skill rust off, because....you don't lose real skill after not doing a thing for two days. Coughrealisticdevthingcough. My kill count's a little over two hundred. Almost exclusively zombies, besides a few wolves, cougars, and coyotes.