Tactician mode in the first game was challenging but not crazy hard and thankfully it wasn't sponge-fest like in most games (Dragon Age
God the Inquisition bosses used to annoy me. "So you think you're getting the upper hand? lol 100% shields. Again." As tactically inept as I am, I'm not sure I'm so keen on battles of attrition either.
I agree with you, it gets tedious instead of challenging really quick. Dragon Age has always had that problem on high difficulties though.
That's just the problem with artificial difficult however, instead of hand balancing encounters to be more difficult through skills, enemy placement and composition, ect.
My guess for the reason tactician mode isn't available in EA is that they're probably using all the play test data and player videos to develop counters to popular tactics like they did in EE.
