Are there any hard, challenging fights? Lvl req?

The level requirement of the quest is no indicator for the first fight (which seems unavoidable as far as I can tell).

I created a new char and at first the quest had 3 skulls.

I then leveled up to at least two levels above what was show in the quest, but almost immediately after entering the new island got attacked by a creature with 3 red skulls and unlimited spells.

The level requirement of the quest is no indicator for the first fight (which seems unavoidable as far as I can tell).

I created a new char and at first the quest had 3 skulls.

I then leveled up to at least two levels above what was show in the quest, but almost immediately after entering the new island got attacked by a creature with 3 red skulls and unlimited spells.

Aawh and I missed that! Did u die? :D

Playing in PotD with level scaling up and with the Watcher at lvl 16 (rest of the party is 15), I found most of the fights to be very challenging. A lot more than in the vanilla game. I ended up resting after almost every fight because I have to burn all my per-rest abilities and get injuries basically everytime.

 

Especially those frost shades that tend to obliterate my backline, are highly resilient, and spawn a ice blight upon death.

 

This is with a not min-maxed but still decently built and equiped party.

Edited August 3, 20187 yr by Myrtillo

Playing in PotD with level scaling up and with the Watcher at lvl 16 (rest of the party is 15), I found most of the fights to be very challenging. A lot more than in the vanilla game. I ended up resting after almost every fight because I have to burn all my per-rest abilities and get injuries basically everytime.

 

Especially those frost shades that tend to obliterate my backline, are highly resilient, and spawn a ice blight upon death.

 

This is with a not min-maxed but still decently built and equiped party.

Sounds promising!

 

The level requirement of the quest is no indicator for the first fight (which seems unavoidable as far as I can tell).

I created a new char and at first the quest had 3 skulls.

I then leveled up to at least two levels above what was show in the quest, but almost immediately after entering the new island got attacked by a creature with 3 red skulls and unlimited spells.

Aawh and I missed that! Did u die? :D

 

Not only that, no way to do that fight solo Potd with level 13 and almost no good equip.

(So I had to reload before I entered DLC)

Aawh and I missed that! Did u die? :D

He did and it was fun to watch

 

Aawh and I missed that! Did u die? :D

He did and it was fun to watch

His suffering is a joyful thing isn't it? :D

Edited August 3, 20187 yr by Dorftek

Especially those frost shades that tend to obliterate my backline, are highly resilient, and spawn a ice blight upon death.

 

Most. Annoying. Thing. 

They seem to really ignore the tank and just melee-rush the spellcasters... FUN TIMES!

On the bridge ablaze, I had to tune the difficulty down to veteran after 5 tries and not being remotely close to win the battle against fire soldiers/archers/cleric in the moment after the godhammer.

It is doable imo, but requires a specific party setup, probably a lot of raw damage/armor debuff (10 ennemies with armor between 13-15 and fire immunity. Yuk). I don't have that prepared in my current party and don't want to backtrack and break the DLC immersion.

 

This fight on veteran was a cakewalk (armors between 9 and 13 mean I could penetrate it easily).

Fights are definitely more difficult than the base game. The snow bears have over 20 slash/pierce armour on upscaled PotD. First time I encountered the spirit barbarians I obliterated myself (barbaric retaliation). The end boss actually feels like a boss fight which is a nice change. And as others have mentioned the frost shades are pretty nasty. Taking on the whole room of spirits in the trials was pretty fun too.