Growing your characters, getting more levels, better items and spells, and becoming stronger, is the main driving force behind an RPG.
In which RPG? This is valid for some RPGs but less so for others. The trick is to know which kind you are playing.
Every RPG, even a full roleplaying normie casual gets excited about a levelup and tries to pick spells and abilities that look strongest for him, stop pretending dude
No, here you're wrong and the proof you are wrong is the fact you end up dissatisfied. Or you're going to claim BG3 is not an RPG because it doesn't support your play style?
See, if you think of yourself as of some kind of a competitve e-sports player of single player games, I want no part in that conversation
Ok, maybe you weren't pretending and you are legit retarded.
I don't minmax, I barely even change equipment on my chars because it's already so easy it feels pointless, I'm in act 3 and Laezel still runs with the +1 sword that I took from the "paladin" in the toll house in act 1. I play single class sorcerer, with single class cleric shadowheart, single class thief astarion, single class eldritch knight Laezel. 0 munchkining, 0 minmaxing, 0 putting actual effort into making game easier for myself, and I'm pretty sure every class I play other than sorcerer is pretty bad and low in "class tierlist". Am I a fucking competitive esport player because I picked haste, fireball, thunderweave and shatter on levelups rather than using some dogshit spells that do nothing? Or shadowheart using bless or Leazel rightclicking on enemies with astarion makes me a competitive player? Or the fact that I use lvl 1 command spell on Shadowheart to CC more dangerous enemies, is the sweaty tryhard behaviour? Is this an esport for mentally challenged? Please tell me which of these things is "minmaxing", because this is literally 99% of what I used for the whole game to autowin every fight. Bless, haste, command, thunderweave, fireball, shatter, rightclicking. That's it, my whole uber minmaxed masterplan.
I'm dissatisfied with combat, because despite 0 effort other than not doing obviously retarded shit like picking weak spells on purpose, or running with my sorcerer into a melee range of 4 enemy fighters, the combat on tactician is still piss poor easy.
I'm ok with the challenge I get when playing on Balanced with a single class paladin of vengeance as PC. My party is Shadowheart, Laezel, Gale. Level 6. Tell me how do you trivialize the game with this configuration, and I'll tell you if I'd be ok to do this for RP reasons.
Haste on yourself or Laezel or both by utilizing scroll/potion, use shadowheart to bless yourself, gale and laezel, then gale uses thunderweave/shatter/fireball, shadowheart uses command and you and laezel are rightclicking enemies to death. Remember to position Gale and Shadowheart in relative safety and prioritize and focus fire dangerous enemies. Congratulations, you just autowin every single combat in the fucking game. Probably have an even easier time than my party, since wizard gets more spellslots than sorcerer and Paladin is a far better rightclicker than thief. What exactly is so RP breaking here?
