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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaezakura" data-source="post: 4243356" data-attributes="member: 52741">I think the big problem is the fact the testers are putting a balanced party up against 5 of the same role, a situation that SHOULD be very rare in the game, for the reasons the playtests have shown. Sure, a single-role group has weaknesses and lacks effectiveness in some areas. But they do their primary job and play to their strengths frighteningly well.I think the situation would be a lot different if the party the 5 swarms were going up against included level 2 characters consisting of 2 wizards, 2 dragonborn who time their breaths to hit the max number reasonable, and a Cleric or Warlord. They'd then be one heavily specialized group fighting another heavily specialized group, not a specialized group taking on a balanced force (which almost always ends in the specialized group winning, because the balanced force doesn't have enough of the proper kind of firepower to deal with the threat).Alternatively to that, I want to see a normal balanced level 2 party fight an encounter that includes only one or two Needlefang Drake Swarms supported by level 2 creatures of other roles. I have a feeling the results will be far less terrifying than the ones we've seen so far.</blockquote>