I did the auntie Ethel fight and the spider matriarch today - so far, I don't see a difference in difficulty. I mean, the matriarch and auntie were always one of the harder enemies in the game (I only find the gith patrol harder, but they are easy to cheese with barrelmancy, if you don't want a long tedious fight).

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