basic questions, no rather another hatelyric :O

[Warken]

I did the game in normal mode and then tried hof beeing atm at the goblin fort.
my characters were about lvl 16 when i improted em, so my question is is there any way to reach lvl 30?
since i only gained like twice in the whole time, but in normal mode about 5 or 6 times.
playing it on hof i saw that u need to buff ur fighters infront of every fight cuz even goblins got an attack bonus of 18 and half goblins something like 32 so theres gonna be no way to get that sort of demi god chars like u had em in throne of bhaal.
every fight is like either buffing ur fighters for like two mins or get summons and mass invis ur party making fighter chars obsulete, is anyone actually enjoying this seeing ur dwarfen hitpoint powerhouse dieing to two orogs or half goblins which do 70 hp + on critical hits.
And to see every foe doing it save if u dont malison em and cast prayer and wotnot just to be able to held one foe of like 20. so imho chars like figher and rogues and battle mages get obsulete. What heroes are that, that cant even kill a troll alone.

btw i saw most priests got a to the kit specific quest or item, like illmater cleaing kuldahars graveyard or... , is there one for priests of mask ?