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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalendraf" data-source="post: 2651228" data-attributes="member: 3433">Last night my party encountered a Deathbringer (MM2).  The party currently consists of 6 characters of 12th to 14th level.   According to the Deathbringer's CR17 rating, this should have been a fairly challenging battle.  It wasn't.  Even though the monster went first, the party shredded this thing in less than 2 full rounds of combat while barely taking any damage themselves.Looking thru the abilities of this creature, I'm really wondering how it even merits a CR17 rating.  Its AC is a bit high, but it's far from being unhittable.  Its hit points aren't bad, but at this level, those won't last long.  It's own damage output isn't that high.  Meanwhile, it's 2-most touted abilities - an area affect negative energy burst maxing out at 18 damage/18 heal for undead, and it's greater dispel - are not that scary.Does the Deathbringer really merit CR17?  Am I overlooking something about this monster's capabilities?  Did I DM it badly?  All I know is that a later battle against a CR11 monster was way harder than this...</blockquote>