A little update - I retried the Gnoll Boss Flind fight from the outside of the cave (on the hill) and it felt the same as patch 4 (at level 3)- even with some astonishingly bad rolls it was possible first time though it was quite a mess. This attempt did not get hit for catastrophic Psychic damage this time. I have never been able to reliably do the fight the noob way (i.e. just wandering up cluelessly) so did not bother trying.
This make me think that the main difficulty rise for this fight is the repeated loss of the inside ladder if you go in the back way due to fire interactions. Of course you can always tadpole the Flind but for some reason this has not been proc-ing for me? im not sure what the criteria are.
Windmill Goblins I did at level 4 so higher than usual but I think these things have have their HP reduced - Approaching unrested with 1/2 resources I ended up burning through most stuff to kill everything.
Last edited by alice_ashpool; 21/07/21 12:28 AM.