Woah, who said anything about sucking? We've made excellent progress ever since we found out where to get Level 3 enemies outside of Cyseal. Playing on EASY was pathetically easy, but on Normal, it gets tedious at times, but so far there hasn't been an area where we'd get stuck. No need to talk about sucking! I grew up on games like BG 1/2, IceWind Dale 1/2, Planescape: Torment, and Fallout 2.
I sort of did say that my melee damage is fine, but its very local, while AOE spells and generally-speaking spells damage more enemies and just seem far more useful for environment-based attacks, like creating rain and then freezing enemies or cooling down burning skeletons or exploding acid. Those environmental aspects don't go too well with Warriors, who TRIP and FALL when its raining. Warriors can't attack those barrels without taking a ton of damage. That makes them somewhat useless because if there are poison barrels near-by the enemies, then the best course of action for a Warrior is just stand back and let the Wizard do all the work or else Warrior will get in the way and likely die from an acid burning explosion. Even without barrels, making it rain and then freezing enemies works great, but your warrior better be nowhere close or he/she will also freeze. Again, best course of action - stand back and let the Wizard do all the work. That is not fun for a Warrior to just stand back!
What I also stressed is that I die fast RELATIVE to the Wizard, even though I have great armor, shield, etc. I've been putting points into Constitution and Strength, but as soon as we play on Normal, I end up taking about the same amount of damage as my buddy's Wizard. That is plain wrong - I am supposed to be at least 2x-3x harder to kill with melee weapons. Magic spells is a different story, but dying as if I had no armor and wasn't even a warrior makes no sense.
With all that said, we're still making progress, but I mostly just stay out of the way or else I die from explosions or some kind of from all the enemies piling up on me and kicking my ass quickly. I wanted to see how much damage I would take without armor and no surprise there because I took only a bit more damage than with a +31 armor!
It could be a game glitch because at times I would see my buddy's Wizard just DRIFT into nothingness, go through walls, and disappear into the void. Another time all the party members were 100% naked on my screen, while they looked fine on my mate's screen. I don't know, but my Warrior doesn't seem right...
