The part about the high level human Forest Hunters falling off the ledge while you sit there safely NEVER works for me. They hop down and start killing me.
OMG I just found out that the non-respawning hostile npcs are female! Now I am regretting that I didn't leave at least the 2nd knight alive. Really feel disappointed that they would leave us with those males to farm instead of the females.
For the three cats , I jumped up to where two of the cats were and their AI was broken. You can defeat two of them as far as I know without any issue, making the last cat easy prey.
