I couldn't agree with you more on this. I've had to turn the game down to the easiest mod to fight the First boss which is a Pride demon and he kicks my parties tails big time. I'm trying to figure out how many hit points this guy has 15k?! While are weapons are able to do only a few points of damage to him even with disrupting the fade.
Not to mention the fact that I've yet to find any of the Bonus items weapons or armor mounts for pre ordering the game. I think that if this is the way for which BIO ware is going with there games it will be the last one for which I buy from them. If I do buy another game from them I sure won't be pre ordering. the next one.
The invention of guard and barriers caused them to remove healing I'm sure. Why? Who can say. First though it so you don't feel forced to have a healer. Well, you still feel that having a tank is basically mandatory and barriers are too useful, so you end up in the same situation as before.
I also agree they messed up on the tactics options. Let us have the option of both.
Stop trying to appeal to everyone at once. It doesn't work.
I agree to the above posts that healing could have been removed if we had a proper AI for companions and ability to fine tune the tactics. However in the current state, when your mage and ranged champions are fighting near the tank and get hit literally by everything. When a boss fight turns into evey 2 sec spam of Pause and manually positioning your allies and so on....
In this state we NEED healing magic. It is unplayable without it. I tried to play on nightmare, impossible, I tried on hard ( which is a shame for me as I always played on hardest ) more doable but still too teeming as you need to run back and forth all the time the refill the pots, and eventually I came to normal difficulty, which is more or less playable in the current state of the game.
Who was testing this? I would like to speak with person that was responsible for cutting out healing magic, screwing up with tactics, and in general creating the current state of the gameplay. That person should get fired asap as he is not fan of series and he hates Dragon Age.
