Just bring Gale evocation school and park shadowheart with guardian spirits radiant damage by the portal so anything that goes near gets fried. Gale with evocation has very large aoe damage with ice storm and fire ball while doing no friendly fire damage. You can bring Wyll to supplement that with some Fireballs of your own.
A lot of these complaints are probably poor party comp optimization and unwillingness to adapt to strategies that are called for in different encounters.
Also, how did you get to Nightsong story point and manage to ignore the portal quest for so long? It starts literally the moment you get to your hub after Isobel, and it even gets you a marker for the progression, which is exactly in a location logically before the Mausoleum. You complain about the long cutscenes, skip by quests that by design are meant to be completed before a capstone dungeon, and then seem bothered that the game becomes difficult or churns out negative consequences for trying to ignore and rush past clear hints and guiding, contextual dialogue in the game.
The complaint about not being able to sell heavy items is moot anyways as you can send items to the camp chest and just sell items when the opportunity rises again.
Last edited by Zenith; 03/09/23 12:42 AM.