Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Patch 5 combat encounter difficulty discussion

Well, I am not sure if I suppose to compare patch 5 to 4 or just talk about the patch in general. So I'll just share me experience...

First is important to declare my playstyle:
-I usually go for really synergistic builds, although not necessarily "MinMax".
-I am not completionist, so many amazing itens are left behind (xp would be too, but this not apply at current state of the game). I like to roleplay on a way that my character do "what make sense to him".
-I don't do cheese strategy's.
-I don't sneak/start the fight, unless it's clearly a non talk-able situation (Enemies already RED on the map).
-I don't save scam, nor on fight nor to get itens and similar.

My party was my Main(L.Druid), Lae'zel, ShadowH and Wyll.

What I can say is that even with Moonbeam, my most important spell, bugged with DC=5, the run felt to easy. I had a TPK at the Hag once, because I played recklessly and Lae'zel missed her "fear"; I think that anyone with magic missile on the party should have an easy time.
Now talking about the others battles in general, all felt far from challenging.
I saw some videos of people having different point of view (saying that the game are to hard, that they died X times on the Minotaur and so on) and probably that is to be expected since there're a large GAP around learning D&D, and another one on cRPG experience.

I just hope Larian take this into account and brings various difficult level, so people can experience what they are looking for. I mean, on this aspect I had a really great time playing PathfinderKM and PoE1(Both was pretty difficult, I loved it) and even though DoS2 was the best game I ever played, it was kind of easy... I Played o tactician with 3 characters, "banned" the resurrect idol and finish the game with easy even with the party not at the max level.


PS: When I say it's feel easy doesn't mean winning all the fights without a character going to the ground, but between that and a real challenge, considering 5e rules there is a big difference.
What I mean is: I never opened the inventory and: -Dam, I am on trouble! There must be something here that I can use to turn the tides of the battle on my favor.

EDIT: Was reading the comments and just realized that I forgot one fight, the Gith patrol. That one was pretty hard (at level 4), if I am been honest I won because of a combination of Luck and Knowing the fight from before. It was complete possible, if not fair, that I lost that fight.