Merchant Princes Folly no longer gives totems for completion. It used to give 10 for gold 6 for silver and 4 for bronze. Now it gives none for any. I don't know if this is a bug or not but it's not in the patch notes.
I've done 15 runs today with no problems. Only died once. But to say it's broken. No it's not. Hard yes but broken no. I didn't see anyone die in 1 hit either.
I've had that happen to me only once. First I got the endless loading screen. So I closed app and restarted and logged into a black screen. I closed app a second time and it corrected itself. Does seem like a bug.
Seems he is just trying to get them to make the game even easier. I have only 89k power and 20k item lvl and I do epic demo all the time maybe use 1 charge of stone of health. Tiamat is tough but still doable.
It is messed up. On Monday all I did was step into the zone and I was at 8% without doing anything. I went to help an alliance member with a hunt last night and when I entered the zone I was at 60%. I never even scratched anything. I did finish it off with a couple hunts though.
I was on that quest but abandoned it because I was never going to get 400 of 3 different resonance to complete it. It was the final quest though. But that quest doesn't seem relevant to MEs. You don't get the unrestored pieces in MEs nor any of the stuff to restore it.
According to sources in game (guild members who have been playing since launch) Remorrhaz is the only epic in Icewind Pass. Hence why the other 2 didn't give the credit.