Echoe

I'm struggling to find a balanced level of difficulty in this game. I experience only 2 types of encounter: 1) My party engage and I dont even need to check what is going on, my basic AI stomp the enemies. Boring. 2) My party engage, everything I try is useless, "no penetretion" and little damage. After a LONG fight, I finally die. Boring. I tried to swap between veteran and POTD difficulty, but the results are always the same. No penetration seems to be a big factor. My actual setup at level 11 is: Eder main tank sword and board Pallegina herald off tank two hand or sword and board Xoti priest main healer, pistol Aloth damage My character is a herald, dual wielding pistols ranged damage dealer (flames of devotion) First boss in winter DLC area is ridicoulous.. i cant kill the him and he cant kill me. Low level area is a stomp, high level is a wipe. Turning on/off the scaling does not change this at all. Any suggestion to make this game more enjoyble?