I beat Braccus this morning, in Normal mode, with:
Wayfarer 9 / Cleric 9 / Fighter 8 (Madora) / Enchanter 8 (Jahan)
My biggest complaint is that you still gain far, far too much XP. After I reached level 5, I started skipping optional fights.
I killed the Grieving orc, and I did do the Orc fight outside the Black Cove, and I entered for the waypoint, but went no farther. I skipped the Black Cove.
I skipped one of the level 5 undead boar fights in the north woods and just did the required one outside the robot tunnel. I fought the Sparkmaster. I skipped the thugs in NW Cyseal, I skipped Dietmar, I skipped the demons. I did fight the orcs in Evelyn's hideout even though I didn't have to. I cleared Evelyn's hideout.
I did clear out all the fire enemies on the east side - including the boss. The only one I skipped was the Fire Behemoth thing on the road near the path to Luculla.
I entered the graveyard. I did kill the bridge troll. I skipped the statues fight outside the church. I skipped everything in SE Cyseal, the wolves, the undertaker hut enemies, the Court of Diedrik, all of that was skipped.
Skipping all of that content, and skipping a lot of quests, I still ended up at level 9 for the Braccus Rex fight. He is only level 8. His associates are only level 8. The only reason why Jahan and Madora were not level 9 is that they died a couple times.
Braccus Rex is absolutely underlevelled. He MUST be level 10 - the only level 10 enemy in Cyseal. His underling bosses should level 9 as well.
Braccus Rex used regenerate on himself, giving him a whopping 35 HP healed/round. That's idiotic for a level 8 boss's self-heal.
Make it 350 HP/round, but give it a long cooldown! At that level, with 4 chars and appropriate gear, you should be able to deal about 350 HP a round anyway.
In the Braccus fight, The Fire Twins died really, really fast, faster than I thought they should... but on the other hand, because of their overpowered 250 fire damage punches, they did kill Jahan in one turn with two swings.
The other two bosses were pretty much non-factors. The Lighthouse Horror hit Jahan with some poison which took him to half health, and Diedric attacked my Raistlin Wayfarer forcing use of Tactical Retreat, but that's about it.
For once, Raistlin worked against me, as I used Boulderdash to hit Braccus and his buddy the Baron of Bones. Braccus retaliated with a load of fireballs on my head. Other than that one death, and having to move away from an orc outside the black cove, my Wayfarer has seen no disadvantage from Raistlin at all.
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Party Stats (some abilities are not listed)
Wayfarer (Lvl 9):
Health: 279
AP - Max/Start/Turn: 15/8/12
STR - 5
DEX - 9
INT - 9 (+2)
CON - 8 (+1)
SPD - 6
PER - 6 (+1)
Earth - 2
Water - 2 (+1)
WotRanger - 4 (+1)
Crafting - 3 (+1)
Cleric (Lvl 9):
Health: 471
AP - Max/Start/Turn: 15/8/7
STR - 9 (+1)
DEX - 5
INT - 8
CON - 7 (+1)
SPD - 8 (+1)
PER - 5
WotWarrior - 3 (+1)
Shield Specialist - 2
Armour Specialist - 2 (+1)
Fire Elementalist - 3
Water Elementalist - 1
Lucky Charm - 3 (+3)
Fighter (Madora Lvl 8)
Health: 444
AP - Max/Start/Turn: 14/9/8
STR - 10 (+1)
DEX - 5
INT - 5
CON - 7
SPD - 9 (+1)
PER - 5
WotWarrior - 3
Two-Handed - 2
Enchanter (Jahan Lvl 9):
Health: 447
AP - Max/Start/Turn: 15/8/7
STR - 6 (+1)
DEX - 5
INT - 9
CON - 8 (+1)
SPD - 7
PER - 6
Air - 3
Water - 3
Last edited by Stabbey; 01/05/14 02:30 PM. Reason: typo
