Hello,
I posted it recently in the german sub-forum, but i think it belongs here.
Yesterday I tried to complete the single-player Eternal Championship with an admittedly non-optimized Lightning Sorcerer (Lvl 80, Gear-Lvl about 320, Companion Lvl 50). After two hours i resigned. It is absolutely impossible. The Brawler with 2 Gundarks was tricky but with muuuch kiting possible. Nocturnus & Drake was also pretty hard, but after a lot of tries also manageable. But Lvl 9, the Isotop-5 Droid, is absolutely impossible.
Even with micro-management (Companion set shortly on passive during the laser-beam, or putting him manually to one of the 4 droids that spawn) there is no chance. Also i tried every role for my companion. nothing worked.
Imho it was already not so easy before 7.0, depending on the class you were using. Yes, it is nice that you can use 2 Styles of Combat for your char. But I think you should be able to do a simple STORY Quest with every class. I mean it's an achievement, so it has to be possible to be achieved. And it has to be possible for also the non-pro-Players. It can't be the idea of the Quest, that you can only achieve it, when you have OP gear, and pro-skills.
And I am still speaking of the class achievements. I don't see any possibility to get the Achievemenet "Sprint-Champion" anymore, maybe by those people who run nightmare OPs as if it were SM-OPs.
Why was it nessecary to change it? Before it was just fine. The Story-Achievements weren't not extremely hard, and if you wanted a real challenge, you could go for the time-challenge.
Again, its not about running through it without any challenge, but it has to be possible at all. I may be no pro, but I also run some HC-OPs like Ravagers etc... So I am also no absolute noob.