I'm not for less ennemies but I definitely am for easier/faster to kill ennemies.
In exemple cantrips should be more meaningfull, especially against goblins and such weak creatures.
1D10 damages is more than most weapons and goblins have an average of 7HP in the MM.
We should not have to use our spellslots and feature recovered by rests so often to feel powerfull at low level.
They changed a lot of things, made wierd choices of creature and add a variety of OP homebrew features... We have the fireworks, we have the (unecessary) variety of creatures and we have a system has been changed to the point that it is not working as intended yet.
Surviving and fighting until the next day should be the challenge.
In BG3 each combat is the challenge (can make sense in tactical turn base game), so each combat can be the end of the day.
Resting and the whole action economy is a problem since day one and it will be one at release IMO...
I prefer more creative fights than simply boring shooting enemies with crossbows / cantrips.
This is a silly way to design turn-based games, and it will end up in a boring fight. There should be no junk fights in such games.
I don't care too much that it's not very DnD-like. First of all, it is a game and it is supposed to be pleasant and fun to play.
I could agree with you... But I definitely don't think it's more creative to use a level 1 spell rather than a cantrip or a heavy crossbow to one shot a single goblin.
Boring fights if some of them were trash, I don't really agree. Of course you can't have too much trash combats in a turn based video game but you could probably make a few more of them without the "need" to rest.
many enemies attacking from distance you have to run after them all the time. They alway throwing molotows, casting spells and than they run away.
This is something I really agree with.
The encounter design clearly show us that Larian don't like melee character.
Even the map design and these combats arena suits ranged and caster.
