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MacArrowny posted...

Additionally, minibosses (and some bosses) feel incredibly damage spongy.

I know we briefly talked about Dragon's Dogma in the past, around the time you finished playing it, so I may have told you this already, but; DD is actually REALLY weird when it comes to enemy HP and the player damage output. I myself had the same exact complaint the first time I tried to play this game, and dropped it for this exact reason, so I know exactly where you're coming from. However, the problem isn't exactly that the enemies are too spongy, it has more to do with gaining levels and upgrading gear.

Basically if you are even a little bit under level, if you invested levels into the wrong classes, if you failed to upgrade your weapon, it can take literally FOREVER to kill bosses. The gap between the lowest relative damage you can deal and the highest relative damage you can deal, even for a casual player, is a lot wider than other action RPGs.

For this reason it's extremely easy to fall into the trap of accidentally trying to fight a boss that you simply do not have the stats to fight... and the game gives you no direction or feedback other than the fight simply being boring and feeling impossible. So you don't very easily think like 'oh maybe I need to do 4 different things to get my damage to increase properly' you just think 'wow enemies in this game have WAY too much HP.' There are even cases where if your build outright sucks, even hitting regular enemies can take forever to kill them -- but then you gain a few levels and you're oneshotting them even with a sucky build.

On the reverse side, if you do upgrade your weapons and level up properly, the game feels like it's more properly balanced. You can kill bosses fast; Not too fast, but still within a reasonable time. Your starting class has a big influence on your stats, and your current class when you gain a level also determines what stats you will gain. Anyway I talked way too much about it already, and this isn't really me saying that you need to go play the game again in order to properly enjoy it. I also think the game has a lot of flaws and don't particularly love it. But maybe if anyone is reading your write ups and hasn't played the game yet, it might be interesting for them to know that there IS a way to make the experience a bit better - at least with regards to enemy damage sponging. Most likely you just need to upgrade your weapon, and gain a few levels. Gaining a bunch of levels in a crappy class will make the process take longer, while gaining levels in an "optimized" class will help you keep up with the enemy level curve with less grinding.