Hey guys, I'm looking for some advice here about Tactician mode and I'm hoping you could help me out. Anyway...

My friend and I played a coop game of DOS way back around release. Initially, the fights were really challenging and we had a great time.

But about maybe halfway through act II, we just started dominating. Our CC was ridiculous, the shield spells made us too beefy, and it got to the point where the monsters hardly ever even got a change to move. At this point, we just got bored and stopped playing.

Now that the EE is out though, I'm planning to start anew with my friend and I was hoping that tactician mode would offer some more challenge.

So for those who have played tactician mode for a while...what are you feelings on it at the later stages of the game? Does combat still become trivial later on?

And if so, is there some way that we can mitigate this effect? For example taking a game changing talent like Lone Wolf, would this make the game more consistently difficult?

Basically, I'd like to be free to min-max our characters once we start the game, but I would be okay with taking some initial things at character creation that may make the game more difficult.

Anyway, let me know what you think, and thanks for your time!