I agree with a lot that's been said here. The game is too easy even on tactician, even with only one companion, even solo. And I'm no sin tee, just a casual gamer with a limited amount of time to play, although I do min max. It is outrageous that Astarion can take on a act 2 twisted trees horde or surgeon at level 6, with just a elixir of vigilance, haste poition and oil of combustion. And I didn't even multiclass him into gloomstalker or assassin, left him as a thief. I found that DAO even DAI on nightmare with trials solo was more challenging. But, I guess once you know the system you can play it to your advantage as with every game.

Just to be clear, I do LOVE the game, it's like an interactive movie. Once all the bugs were ironed out and performance is stable, that'll be one of my favorites along with DAO. But I think another difficulty level or something like trials should be added.