After finishing my first play-through on Balanced mode with a "balanced party" and gathering all the herbs, potions, elixir's, oils, etc. throughout the entire game, and not using any of them, I was looking forward to playing on Tactician whereby all of the above would become more "necessary" (or so I thought). The concept of playing Tactician was not for me to make a gimp party in order to need the consumables, but to make as strong a party as possible based on what I learned in my Balanced run.
Therefore, I made a party of 4 fighters: 3 X Great Weapon Masters and 1 X multi-class Archery F3/Evocation W9 for utility (with fighter stats but using
[/spoiler]Warped Headband of Intellect[spoiler]
for Intelligence/Spell modifier. I basically mowed down everything without breaking a sweat.
I was really sad at the end having once again no need for any consumables whatsoever. I think I used the haste potion on 2 fights just to see
[spoiler]Ansur[spoiler]
and killed him before the 3rd companion's turn (they finished off the adds) and then the final fight but
[/spoiler]didn't call any allies at all and killed everything in phase 1 before entering the portal, just because I could![spoiler]
.
In the end, I'm in full agreement with the OP. I'm an old man and if I find this game too easy (with the exceptions of insanely bad rolls 5-6 times in a row) then I can't imagine what today's generation of gamers think. I was however surprised when I finished the Tact run a few days ago that only 1.1% have the achievement...
