So I don’t know all the changes they have made in the latest GLOOT patch for HKO but 1.3.0.2.1 seems to have made some headways to deal with the POD issue, that is, giving us a way to deal with (in Azog’s words) monsters on steroids.

There you go, ta-da, in each City they now have for sale Super Equipment! I haven’t seen anything inside the Game with those type of stats, each City has something now called "Improved something-or-the-other", the end result.

I fare a lot better than before, it’s not as easy as before, but it works!