I'm by no means ready to quit the game, it's just given how slow combat is (even with the animation speed up tool), I get a little frustrated.

Anyway, I made some pretty big improvement today. I think that's kind of what I have to do with this game; make small incremental improvements until I get on solid ground. I broke down and read a FAQ some to get some idea on what I'm supposed to be doing. Cleared out the Arnika Bank which got me some decent stuff. And I was going to go back to the Monastery to pick up the Fellowship Pass (I guess I missed it somehow, maybe I didn't back track enough once I broke the glass) but I kept running into these one monsters called Apuses (Had to look that up just now), and they kept eating my lunch. I couldn't hit them, they had extended reach so they kept taking out my mages, and just in general bad news bears.

So I kinda wandered for awhile until I found my way to Trynton or whatever. I've been working through that, as for a "town" there sure are a lot of really mean creatures out to hurt me. I had one hilarious team wipe, I was trying to squeeze by some of the patrols to get at a large group of flies and a crawler. And of course my AI allies put themselves in horrible spots. So I'm slowly pushing past him for like thirty seconds to a minute, before I finally popped past him....and then zoomed off the walkway, falling all the way from Upper Trynton to the ground.

I'm actually toying with the idea of rerolling a new team. Really, I'm not terribly far into the game (taking out all the wandering), and I'm getting really tired of my melee characters not hitting anything, ever. Either your party is just predisposed to suck at melee, or they're dex is just way too low. It's pretty frustrating to be facing an enemy that hits me 1-4 times per round, and all my characters whiff.