The following is a familiar story that many have experienced in some form or other. I was playing my Land Druid who was using Flame Blade and Lae'zel was standing next to her, with Tyr's Protection. Both of these spells are concentration spells. A goblin loosed an arrow at my Druid. He missed, but it was a Fire Arrow and both took damage from the fire. Both proceeded to roll badly in their saving throws and lost their concentration spells. From an arrow that missed. A common occurrence in Larian's obstinate fixation on their own homebrews and cheese tactics, you might say.
But losing the concentration spells this way was just so cheap that it was frustrating, so I redid that fight by cheesing harder, such that I took out the goblins before they even had a chance to use their cheesy moves on my party, by using stealth attacks. So I won and should be satisfied, right? But I wasn't. If I don't use cheesy tactics to combat the AI's cheesy tactics, the game gets frustrating. If I do use them, the combat is unrewarding.
I'm afraid that I don't have much in the way of suggestions on what could be done beyond Larian staying more true to DND's rules and only making changes sparingly, and Larian needing to eat humble pie and understanding that their homebrews aren't giving their players as much fun as they think. We don't all like explosions and gimmicks.
Larian needs to completely rethink how combat should be played out.
