Although I acknowledge Distant Stranger's point that we get enough to still level up, but... It's a Devil Commander who can essentially one hit kill/down most level one characters, and the fact that we were able to still defeat it was in my opinion quite a feat.
I wish it were a feat. I had to reload a couple times so that the illithid would stay alive long enough for me to get in position, but after that I just chucked exploding barrels (void pods or whatever) onto the battlefield until everything was dead.
I've been using that strategy everywhere, in fact. It's stronger than any serious build in the game so long as you keep a mage around to ignite the oil. There's basically infinite exploding barrels so you don't have to worry about running out of barrels before you run out of bad guys.
