noobient: I've been playing this game as a kid and I was having a blast.

Now I'm doing it and WTF? Even the first dungeon with that laser eyed boss was stupid grindy. After that, it only gets worse. The dungeon after the first town with the spiders... I mean, I literally die on every step. Save, reload, save, reload, save, reload. What's going on?

I'm playing on normal. I have a combat mage, a healer, an archer and a tank as well. All of them do only their appropriate spells / attacks. Yet I just keep dying and dying and dying. This is the very beginning of the game, yet I already gave up because I'm sick of it. Without the healer, I'd die within 5 seconds after engaging any group of monsters. I'm not exaggerating. This is borderline unplayable, and I'm at the very beginning of the game.

I might think for a second that I'm doing my character stats wrong, except there's no stats to adjust, it's done automatically. There's no interesting drop either, any noteworthy, SLIGHTLY better item I can't even equip because of too high requirements.

This is totally not how I remembered this game. Am I alone with this? What am I doing wrong?

noobient: Right, but you don't actually answer the question... has there really been some quite hefty balance patches after release, or am I just imagining things?

noobient: Right, but you don't actually answer the question... has there really been some quite hefty balance patches after release, or am I just imagining things?