Yeah, I'm having serious issues with Tactician mode. I ONLY ever played Tactician mode in D:OS1, and I had a ton of fun with it. It was challenging but never felt impossible. It certainly never required a bunch of metagaming and minmaxing and tricks and exploits in order to even pass one key battle.

After leveling up just right to beat the turtles, crocs, and frogs, now I'm stuck on the Houndmaster, who seems utterly impossible unless I can squeeze just enough XP out of... something, to hit level 4. Apparently, from what I've read, I should just go back and exploit some quests and murder a bunch of NPC's. How nice. Now I fully understand why Obsidian had no XP for kills in Pillars of Eternity.

At least put some "re-spec" potions or something in Fort Joy so we can reset and re-level our party better without restarting the whole game (which I've done several times now)... Or just, you know, make the fights ever so slightly less impossible.

Well, that's my 2 cents. I'm off to change my terrible rogue into a summoner and try again...