Looks like the devs want to enforce the "easy" method on you. Donｴt know why, but it is a not very clever game design. In effect forcing player back later or have him to deal with an annoying disadvantage for quite some time.
If the normal fight would at least be difficult. No, just stupidly tedious.
Regards,
Thorsten
Sorry? It's simple: You can fighter smarter, or you can fight harder. Your choice.
It's not just a random enemy, it's a guardian chosen by the king of the realm to guard some important stuff. It's not supposed to be a joke enemy, weak and easily defeated.
You can walk over most enemies in the game in your sleep with the right skill combination, but because some very special enemies can't be cheesed, that's suddenly Bad Design? I don't think so.
To kill it, you have to:
Talk to Hilda the immaculate nearby, and win the reason and Intimidate dialogue to learn that her wand can kill the things. Then you kill her and take the wand. Use it on the guardian and it dies in one shot.
