Vasya

But they also need to pass accuracy check against will, so what's the point?

How did you even get ectopsychic echo on lvl 4?!

Did first 3 (Sly, Dweller and xaurip) with lvl 5 part on potd difficulty (pc(wizard with talents for minor blights), Aloth, Eder, Kana, Durance). Xaurip warchief forced me to retreat when i ran out of control spells and could not kill last 3 kobold high priests and warchief with their endless healing.

Position your party in corner, so that there is no free space near your casters. Wait until shades come to melee range. Destroy everything with aoe control and damage. Do not waste spells until at least one shade comes close (except for chill fog). Trying to kill shadows before shades is pointless. Each shade summon two shadows, even if you kill 4 real shadows, 4 summoned will take their place.

Well, if it's a really hard fight where there is many enemies that can wreck your party in few seconds if left alone, then it's either wizard or some scrolls. And some scrolls are just legitimized cheats. So how do you figure that? Legitimized cheats. Is there any guide or rule book I could read up so I would not unintentionally use them? Point me the right direction if you can I am lost. Common sense. If you can't figure out why +15 accuracy 10 sec paralyze on whole screen usable by anyone with lore is not really balanced, i can't help you.

Well, if it's a really hard fight where there is many enemies that can wreck your party in few seconds if left alone, then it's either wizard or some scrolls. And some scrolls are just legitimized cheats.

The problem with blast talents is that they are effective when there are many enemies, which means that you are probably not out of spells yet. Well, if you have second wizard you can just give him the job of controlling enemies at the start of the fight while you go full dps with minor blights and then switch to controlling when your second wizard is out of spells.

Do you want weapon for attacking when you are out of spells and when you dont want to waste spells or you want to make wizard into proper ranged damage dealer?

From my experience, those that you can interrupt are not worth interrupting.

3rd level spell someone's minor blights. It conjures wand for you for 60+ seconds, it deals good damage and is affected by wand talents like blast, penetrating blast and dang. implements. Also it deals aoe damage, so blast talent triggers for each enemy hit by it and main target can be hit by initial shot + blasts from adjascent enemies.

Wizards already have strong conjurable ranged weapon, but rarely find a time to use it, unless there is multiple wizards in party.

It looks like a work of necromancer!

And the party of 6 quick switch rogues is 6 times more beautiful.

No. It's good that you invented such interesting build as bow wizard, but it's a bit too much to ask developers to change game mechanics so that your build would work. Eldritch aim is awesome spell at potd difficulty, it does not need rework.

If you have problems with those fights, you'll suffer much more later. I dont remember anything challenging in the beginning, until i tried to do bounties at party lvl 4. Kill backer in plate armor near Eothas temple and give that armor to Eder. That should solve your dr problem. Dont try to tank with Kana. Even after i reseted him with ie mod and gave him right talents he still sucks as tank. Hire proper tank in tavern or be tank yourself. Use slicken with Alot. Pick it instead of lvl 2 spell, when you get to chose. Still, you are doing something else wrong, because fights you listed are not supposed to be hard. Try recording some fights and upload them.