Same for me : game was challenging until I reached the second part.
In rhe first map, we died some times, we had fun fighting the bosses (had to try 3 times for
Evelynn
). But then it started to be less hard.
We even did
Braccus Rex
while being 1 level lower (we had to try 3 times too). It's a very good example : it was hard. But, we found a tactic which worked : we splitted. One character for each enemy.
The DPS fire mage for the lightouse gaurdian, Madora dor the undead knight, Jahan and his ice spells/summon for the double elemental, and the thief (quickly helped by Jahan cause the elemental died easily) to try to incapacitate Braccus, and winning time for the team.
Well, it worked. And the undead knight and the lighthouse guardian never tried to switch opponent till the end.


So... I don't know. Maybe your characters are too close from the enemy and are in range. But I can assure you that my summons always get aggro. And that if the opponents are a bit far from my mages, they won't even try to get in range to shoot arrows or spells. They don't move and focus the closest one.