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Originally Posted by Kefka1983 I am using the Tactics mod that makes encounters/battles more difficult and require more though, but I didn't know it would make them so hard that there is little chance of survival. The intro battle against Ilasera is so hard now that my paladin dies in a few hits, I have no chance. Is this really a bad mod to use due to unbalanced difficulty or am I missing something? Thank you.

Illasera is, afaik, unnafected by the Tactics mod. Do you mean Ascension? Those are two fairly different mods, although both increases the difficulty level immensely.

The Ascension Illasera is a worthy member of the Five, as opposed to her stupid vanilla version. I can't recall trying, but beating her with a solo directly-created ToB character sounds almost impossible to me. With a self-created party or a party imported from SoA it's a fairly easy battle as her allies are pushovers, but yeah, I think you need a party on this one. Or a powered SoA-character.

Tactics/Ascension makes battle so hard that they are nearly impossible before you have figured out them. The first time I tried Eclipse or Ascension final battle I had to facepalm and go "come OOOON, you can't be serious," but in the end they just proved to be very, very epic battles.

Besides, the vanilla game really is too easy after a while.

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Originally Posted by Edar Macilrille I like Tactics, but I have yet to actually beat *all* of it with no Cheese, with Illyich you need weapons you do not posses (Shadowkeeper FTW).

You get a +2 weapon in the fight itself, you just need to know who to kill in what order and equip the weapon in-fight. It's a neat trick that I think that more battle could've used as an interesting quirk.