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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadeydm" data-source="post: 4585079" data-attributes="member: 44243">At the start of the battle the warlord and rogue were squared off against the ogre this may or may not have been related to who was on watch when the encounter took place. The swordmage marked the ogre to reduce his damage output and quickly moved to try and eliminate the minions who as I recall quickly took out one of our npc clerics. The swordmage didn't switch places with the rogue because we needed his damage to kill off the ogre and due to the ogre's size  could not switch places with the warlord (range 3 utility) I think everytime a minion died it got a free attack on an adjacent enemy. I believe our wizard had the misfortune of being tied up one on one with a minion which kept him occupied for a couple rounds (his RoF kept missing as I recall). Our warlock was taking pot shots from range at the ogre and missing way too often. The Orcs engaged our other cleric and I don't think he last too long either, although the details are a little fuzzy im my mind at the moment.To make matters worse the orcs had both a leader and a cleric. The cleric healed the ogre at least once if not twice.It was ugly business to be sure. The orcs seems to have good hitpoints and good damage output. The leader lowered both the Rogue's and the Swordmage's AC by 4 points at various times during the battle.The first two party members to go down were the NPC clerics as I recall followed by the wizard and then the warlord then the swordmage who by that time was tied up fighting the orcs. The last to die was the warlock who seemed to be missing so often i don't think our enemies viewed him as a credible threat and therefore killed him last.I don't think we ended up killing much beyond the minions.Again it is hard to get everything straight in my head since I wasn't running the battle but despite the fun there was no denying that it was a grind too. One which at second level seemed very edition specific to me.</blockquote>

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