As I said it before, the game gets hard when you play it as a D&D game. Engaging enemies in melee without dipping, and things like cleave which does not exist in D&D the way Larian implemented it, without jumping behind someone to backstab, without using nonsense Larian grenades, without WMD barrels, without shoving being the main damage dealer and without having everyone being ranged and climb as high as possible or stealthing even though they suck at stealth which does not matter because of the short vision cones.
Man I do none of that stuff, and have never found anything majorly difficult in the combat other than maybe the spider matriarch, and that thing in the under dark that pops from the ground (sorry can't think of its name atm). Yeah there is a couple fights that I wipe on a few times, but that is the way it should be. Though I will admit, I use the crap out of cleave. But the only one I put behind an enemy is the rogue.
Yeah Larian cheese is almost hilarious, but it is not necessary to fight any of the battles to be able to conquer them efficiently.
