Yeah, in hindsight I probably dug my own grave there.

I’m doing okay (so far) with main character 1 as an Archer, main 2 a Pyro/Earth mage, then Madora as tank and Jahan as Water/Air mage, crafter, and party healer.

Archers benefit hugely from crafted and found magic arrows. They can serve the jack-of-all elemental effects role with special arrows, and let your two mages specialize more heavily in their respective areas. At first I thought not having a Rogue type would be a problem, but I haven’t missed it.

Bottom line, right now this is a very magic-intensive game. Steel is useful, but more than one fighter in the party (not counting a Ranger as a fighter) seems sub-optimal.

I’ve run into pathing and missed clicks too, but I’m learning my way around it. Setting waypoints helps, and I always cancel a selected spell (like when finding I’m out of range) with a right mouse click, instead of choosing another spell. Watching for the red highlight outline on an enemy before clicking to target is important, and that’s hard to do at the max zoom-out God view. So I always try to remember to zoom in more for battles.

All that said, I’m still early in the game, have just barely left the first act, so there may be a ragequit in my future if the later battles just get too ridiculous.

Heh, exactly what I’m going through with now.

I made the same mistake as you, not following the “intended” questline with the white witch, and consequently, that section became an easy grind when i finally figured out how to remove the barrier.

The button clicking puzzles were googled in a heartbeat. Perhaps i would have tried harder if the interface made them more pleasant to solve, but searching around the walls for a tiny button, then dragging my party around, waiting for them to reach the button and so on felt really grating.

I thought I was going to really need a rogue when I was about an hour in, so I got one from the hall of heroes, but it was just too fiddly and the damage and skills weren’t great. Plus I had all those wicked-looking arrows going to waste, so I swapped with a ranger, who was rather weak to begin with, but came into his own once he could shoot more than once per turn and got some useful skills.

In general, I found fighters to be comparatively useless, except for the sole purpose of keeping enemies’ attention away from the weaker characters or dealing killing blows.

The only character type I didn’t dabble with was the Witch.

But I will say that I had a drastically different experience in terms of difficulty and I suspect this was down to the party composition, it probably helped a lot that I co-oped a bit with someone who spent 100 hours with the beta and gave me a lot of tips.

I’ve found the difficulty curve to be mostly about right, with the exception of some encounters (particularly bosses) where it can be a bit spikey. Mostly where they have immunities or insane saving throws so it’s difficult to do crowd control.

For reference I went with Rogue/Archer/Talkyman, Fire/Earth Battlemage, then Jahan and Madora as standard Air/Water Mage and Fighter.

Wasn’t actually going to bother with the archery, but the flexibility of special arrows is super useful.

I think you’re not a million miles away from being able to re-do character stats/skills, though I’m not sure what penalties that comes with.