The game makes it very easy to up your crit-hit ratio's and dozens of ash/goo piles are almost inevitable if you use EW's.
I propose that when the devs release the next patch, be it to fix the problems in the last patch or to prepare for LR they alter how these things work in the world.
Not only do they slow the game down but they also have a pretty bad glitch related to them where you are able to access a living npc's inventory via a 'second' access point in an old ash/goo pile.
It can't be just me that this annoys?