Fight Mechanics / Balance:
The lighthouse horror fight has been heavily buffed, which is nice, but the teleport-hit-teleport stuff is waaaaay OP, especially since the fight is ~level 4/5. (It's also incredibly unfair/cheesy, but there I've no expectations that undead horrors play nice).
New players who've not min/maxed will get creamed by this, expect complaints.
Speaking as someone who tried the fight in v143 and got creamed...
Perfect! Excellent! This is what a boss battle should be! I like it!Before, that fight was really a joke, it sure isn't now. Please don't take this piece as me being hostile or dickish, I just want to offer a contrasting view:
I went in a level 4, basically unprepared with not much impressive equipment and only one new skill purchased (Rush), and I suffered 5 character deaths. Since I only had 3 Resurrection scrolls, that was problematic. both my warriors were down, and I had to use clever placement of ice patches to keep the Wolf Horrors slipping so they didn't destroy my mages.
I beat the fight, but at such a high cost (including purchasing two more Resurrect scrolls) that I reloaded anyway
so I could go get more gear and spells and try again.
I just came back from my second go, and because I was more prepared, it went much better. (Only one death this time!)
It's a boss fight, the characters even comment "boy, there sure are a lot of bodies this way". It's for a couple side-quests. Yeah, new guys are gonna get creamed, and they're gonna complain. No one said this game was going to be easy (in fact, the opposite). It's an optional fight in an optional area. It's not hard to even reach level 5 before facing it. I don't think it's a bad thing to have fights that can be really dangerous, requiring caution and tactical thinking.
I don't think the boss's teleport attack move is unfair - the patch notes said that enemies have to play by the rules now, which means cooldowns and conserving AP if they want to use their killer spells. The boss only managed to cast that teleport attack twice in the long drawn-out fight I did. EDIT: Plus, the boss doesn't seem to have THAT great a chance to hit with his teleport attack. He misses or my characters dodge quite a bit.
