In the Black Cove, the orcs versus Skeletons fight starts before you make it up the stairs. Your party starts out of position at the bottom, and need to waste their first turn just making it within shouting distance. This makes the fight a lot less challenging because the Orcs are almost entirely wiped out before you get into position to attack anyone.
I preferred how it worked before when the fight was revealed and started as soon as you made it up the stairs.
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I love the new Source Abomination fight. It’s immune to a ton of stuff and has a lot of nasty attacks of its own. It does seem to target my mages with status effects geared towards fighters though.
Unfortunately for me, my Dual-Enchanter build, which had been rolling over most encounters so far was basically useless against this guy. All I can do is Blitzbolt, Headvice, and Staff of Magus it.
