Is Tactitian really easy if you still need to reload fights?
Has anyone 'easily' beat the game on tactitian with zero save scumming and winning each fight effortlessly the first time around?
How about if you try and fail the persuasion rolls on Act 2 minibosses then have to fight them? They really are not easy on tactitian.
The Balthazar / Nightsong fight was a lot easier for me than earlier fights because I'm at level 9 so popped out 2 Icestorms on the first fight, then an ice storm and fireball on turn 2 using quicken and wooped everything.
But its much easier when the mobs aren't poison immune with cloudkill, also I would have to waste a turn casting a poison spell for 0 damage to trigger my poison sorcs poison resist ewww.
I thought I read somewhere that draconic sorcs are meant to be able to bypass resistance to their dragons element, but that doesn't seem to be a thing in BG3, otherwise lol poisoners robe and gloves and spam cloudkil / ray of sickness all day.
Balthazar stole my build and used it against me :x
I probably got killed in all the hardest fights in Act 1, at least once. In my first playthrough, I died at the hands of Lump, the Goblins at the windmill, the giant spider, and the githyanki (both in front of the mountain pass and in the creche), and the duergar got me twice; I kept trying to talk to everyone and it often went bad because I didn't always choose the easy path and sometimes just got unlucky. I'm mucking around in Act 1 waiting for (crossing fingers) custom parties before moving on to Act 2 because I welcome the challenge. I don't think I'm going to get killed very often in Act 1 now that I know what to watch out for. I understand the desire for Tactician+ for those who want multiple playthroughs, but I don't think it is fun to get killed more than once every 10 hours or so, so I'm pretty happy with Tactician as it is now.
As I've said before, I feel like all these problems go away if you just get to pick your Point Buy (higher or lower than 27, depending on whether you want it easier or harder). I think with a minor tactical mistake or some bad luck, I could still lose a fight in Tactician even now; I have to be careful. If I lowered Point Buy to 18 or so, I feel like some of these fights I am now confident about would become trickier.
These are all in act 1 where I will most definately say that tactician feels hard. But as soon as you hit level 5, have multi attacks, available area of effect spells (fireball), the challenge is different. There is a reason 80% modules for table top are level 1 to 5 modules. It is not easy to adapt for higher level content. And when it is, it works but mostly since you are lucky if you found even a +2 longsword at level 10. This game throws us legendary items that you are lucky if you find in a level 20 campaign, where obviously enemies are optimized for 17-20 encounters. But I did not fight any liches or ancient red dragons or any Demon lords yet in Baldurs gate 3:)
