And I use withers to trivialize encounters which I wouldn’t be able to without him.
I soloed house of Grief with a warrior who I respeced to take “war caster” feat before the fight just so that his haste from
The bow doesn’t get interrupted.
I also respec my Sorc / lock to sorc 6/ assasin 4/ warlock 2 just so I can get the assasin surprise attack and also have devils one with shadows warlock invocation- once again this build would be very suboptimal if I level it all the way without respecing as it would only be good for this specific encounter and would be very suboptimal in most other encounters.
Without withers I would have had to go with a lot more balanced moderate builds and wouldn’t be able to trivialize these encounters as I wouldn’t have had access to All the tools needed to solo them and trivialize them.
This isn’t Skyrim where you could be everything all the time by design, a master wizzard but also a master assassin and a master crafter, you are supposed to be “either this OR that” and with withers you can be everything you want any time.
I would argue that 99% of players who find tactician too easy don't use withers like this.
Larian could entirely remove Withers from the game, but that wouldn't impact the difficulty for me, not one bit. The game would still be too easy, and I would still be in these threads pleading for a higher difficulty level.
