I think the OP is correct, and I usually have no trouble at all with combat.
I'm currently doing a replay, trying out different things. I was doing my most favorite Gnoll fight yesterday, and I needed two tries to win the fight. the first time, I was slightly sloppy in my approach. So in the first three rounds, with hit chances between 50 and 70, I missed 11 times with my team and hit exactly once. Meanwhile the Gnolls, especially the archers, seem to hit at will. At the end of round three, I had two characters down and the MC was on life support (1 hp left).
I know that I was hit with really bad RNG, or in other words: shit happened, but at this point in the game, stuff like this happening is ridiculous. This is basically a low level, introduction encounter, and it shouldn't kill me off because my approach wasn't optimal.
The second approach worked a lot better, simply be being just a tad more careful. Two critical hits by Lae'zel and my MC in the first round certainly helped. But again, the fight had its ridiculous moment. I tuned the mini-boss, so it attacked her fellow gnolls. Well, she got off exactly one attack, before being killed by the gnasher (three attacks per round, three hits), and the three archers (three attack per rounds each, three hits each, with the third killing the boss with the first shot). This is out of whack.
My point is that for a more casual gamer, this will be extremely frustrating. I'm a lot more hardcore than is good for me, and I actually find this fun, but it doesn't mean that I'm blind to the current shortcomings. And I was sitting in front of my monitor after the end of round three on the first approach loudly shouting "You cannot be serious."
Last edited by Nyelin; 16/10/20 08:43 AM.
