Saying that D:OS is hard, well, you should consider playing Sims then, IDK.
Yeah, thanks for the sage advice but I didn't say it was hard. I said that your claim about a party with four rogues was an exaggeration.
4 wizards (built correctly) is an 'I win' button for this game and anything else is worse. (Though, as you point out, archers get good later in the game if they are built correctly.) Based on your comments, I don't think this comes as news to you which is why your initial comment looks like an exaggeration.
Well, if some nasty invisibility bugs get fixed, I can beat your 4-wizards party in the arena with 4 rogues hands down, easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.
With the addition of grenades, rogues actually can be much more potent than mages (well, yeah, no 1-shot-kill-all blizzards and meteors, but still).
On one of my EE playthroughs killed the void dragon with a rogue when he got his turn to move, in one turn, no problems.
So ye, git gud and stop whining. I won't be tired repeating that. I don't know how randow lvl-uping you must become to mess up character progression so you'll feel underpowered in D:OS1. I guessed that example with intelligence-based rogues fits the idea.
And if you ARE that *ahem*retarded*ahem* there IS an explorers mode, ffs!