Okay, in the Dark Forest, halfway between the entrance and Hunter's Edge, there's an island with a group of about 5 Mud Huntresses on it.
Those guys are A&&HOLES.
They can easily do a party wipe, even on my party of equal level, because they do an insane amount of damage. On the first turn, they kill my tanks and still have enough AP to also leave my wizards half-dead.
Only my Shadowblade has enough initiative to go first, and Madora has enough to go after one of them, but then four Mud Huntresses go in a row. That rules out crowd control, because I have to focus on healing just to not get wiped, except there's only so much healing magic to go around. Item-healing is worthless.
This has the appearance of just a generic encounter, nothing special, but there have been a lot of bosses that were much easier than this.
These pricks:
- have 1423 hitpoints
- Do 299-410 damage per hit
- Can attack twice each turn
- Have a good initiative score and can move pretty fast in the turn order
- Heal from Earth Damage
- Are highly resistant to Poison and Water damage
And there are FIVE of them. That's potentially 2990-4100 to spread out over four people PER TURN. My total HP combined is 3965.
It's really jarring how difficult it is compared to what came before.
