Level 4 - The adult herders in the first room. Help.

[josseriot]

I am not a twitch gamer as my responses are crap, so I am finding this room impossible to get past. I am even playing on easy difficulty because i just would like to complete the game at long last.

No matter what tactic I try, the herders corner me before I can dodge them and they kill my party off. My party can't deliver enough damage to even kill one of them in time.

I've got the crossbow with the poison quavers, I have a few of the bombs. i can make a few antidote potions but drinking mid-battle would end up wasting too much time. My mage knows the second level fire spell, Both my warrriors have the light armor bonus and seem to me to be pretty strong. They got through the slime dungeon well enough.

Any advice? Or even any cheats? I can't believe I'm tempted to quit this game at level 4.

Also: my party is all level 4, and I was wondering if on a normal difficulty, they would be at level 5 and a little tougher for this fight. If so i'm screwed for this playthrough.

[Grimalkin]

I had no problem with them on easy.

[Dr.Disaster]

Do NOT get cornered!
If you're in danger of being cornered get out of there by running past them!

Do NOT stand head to head with them!
Here tanking means dying. This is hit and run! Otherwise they poison cloud you immediatly.

Do NOT split your firepower!
Concentrate on fighting / killing one of them. Once you got one down the other one is a piece of cake.

You also need to understand that those big herders are poison immune so poison spells and poison bombs will have no effect. However poison arrows and quarrels will do their regular physical damage like non-enchanted ammo.

[Grumpy Old Gaffer]

I realize this is about a week late, but here`s an example of how it (probably) was designed to be overcome.

Dances with Herdes

The principle goes for the majority of the fights in the game.

Last bossfight spoiler:

The last boss cannot be beaten standing still. You will have to be able to dodge and even postition yourself strategically as adds interfere with the fight.