Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Divinity 1 skill/stat system was massively better

Idk, maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. If you have low ini (i don't put any points into wits until main stat is maxed and I ignore vit completely) many of the enemies usually would get the first turn. I have picture of health on all my martial characters with warfare maxed, but a lot of encounters do a lot of alpha damage and enemies would usually not hesitate to use cc once your armor is down. Some are pretty close to oneshotting your guys even with level appropriate armor, e.g. Alice Alison. Maybe we can argue on definition of cheesing, but prebuffing with living on the edge(or really any form of prebuffing) or skipping pre combat dialogue to attack enemies from very favourable position or splitting them with teleport as combat initiator constitutes to cheesing in my book.

It's not like I'm having any issues beating stuff, but going around naked would be pretty painful to me. Maybe you can enlighten me how you deal with enemies getting the first turn and immidiately CCing your guys with battlestomp etc through their crap armor.