[Cerek the Barbaric]

I agree - the Shade Lord is pushover.

I fought Firkraag about 5 times and never came close to killing him. I finally used a legitimate (if somewhat cheesy) solution posted in the forum and beat him easily.

I expected a tough fight from the Shadow Dragon too, but he wasn't nearly as tough as Firkraag. My party managed to kill him on their very first try. Valygar and Yoshimo were down about 40% on their hit points and the rest of the party had some minor damage - but nothing serious.

I had planned to "rest and restore" before fighting the Shade Lord, but decided to go ahead and give him a try. The plan was to find out what he would hit me, then fall back and regroup. However, before I knew it, the Shade Lord was nothing but a memory and none of the party took any serious damage in the entire fight.

Good Luck!