I had plenty of difficult battles the first time as did everyone. The good thing about the game is the freedom of movement you have. Everyone seems to have horror stories of how they visited areas way too early. I had a tough dwarf fighter from BG1 and was used to creaming everything with him, so I got more than a few big shocks. The first was stumbling in on those adventurers in the seventh veil just after escaping Irenicus' dungeon. I went to the veil to rest and decided to explore the place, as you do. Remember I only had the four characters. Then I foolishly charged into the middle of them. Did everyone do that with most fights the first time through, just do an all or nothing charge to see how tough they are. The next place I went was D'arnise keep where I got past the trolls fine, thanks to grandmaster axe with stonefire, but then I decided to grab all the golems treasure at once. Woops! The hardest fights for me now are the mind flayers I think. I can still have whole parties wiped out by them unless I bait them one at a time. I find most of the wizards tougher than the actual big creatures. ie I can fight other hand to hand combat creatures a lot easier than spellcasters. I think the first battle with Irenicus is harder the second for this reason.
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