Buy some fireball scrolls from the mage guy at the tavern, should help. Game is very overturned. I’m just now going to start Market Square and onward (only previously did it in alpha and wasn’t that bad but it probably got harder.). Masochistic design is expected tbh, it’s owlcat..
Yeah, I'm beginning to establish proper communication with this game on Core difficulty.
Apparently at this difficulty I'm expected to not only prebuff but also spend some cash on scrolls, and then actually use them. I beat the Library combat, 2 of my 3 fireballs were enough, mopped up afterwards but I still got one knockout (no black-and-white portrait though, got up afterwards).
I also beat the Babau's in Gwerm's study. My party is of five lvl3 characters - PC Wizard, Paladindu, Spidergirl, Camellia, and Ember. Paladindu and Spidergirl were buffed with Enlarge person, Blur (I got a bunch of blur potions from the Library combat), Protection from evil. I also cast Protection from Chaos, communal, don't know where I found the scroll.
In the combat itself I used Grease, then also Entangle (to reduce their number of attacks). These two spells mainly did the job. I also cast my third fireball scroll but it didn't do much, especially given the energy resistances these fucks have. People who are saying that low level wizards have no business doing other than buffing, are certainly right. Paladindu had to chug one potion of cure moderate wounds, but still got knocked out the next round. Babau's and their sneak attacks, bad RNG.
I managed to get them to a sleep condition a couple of times, but strangely I wasn't allowed to do Coup de grace on them. And, I played on turn based.
