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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeNotCharles" data-source="post: 4869501" data-attributes="member: 79945">[sblock=Post Mortem]Glad you all had fun!  I thought it worked out really well.The last encounter wasn't nearly as tough as I was expecting - sure, Soldier almost died, but after that it was a cakewalk.  I'd heard that Fire Beetles were overpowered for their level, so I figured that an encounter 4 levels above you guys, mostly made out of them and an Elite, would be pretty tough.  But it turns out they do a lot of DAMAGE for their level, but they needed some heavier support to be a lasting threat.Also, I messed up the Gnome a couple of times - I didn't notice until halfway through the fight that Startling Glamour was a minor action, so he could have been using it to slide people into the beetles' blast zones as well as attacking, which would have been AWESOME.  As it was I mostly ignored it in favour of the more damaging attacks until it was too late.  Then I got Fey Step and Fade Away mixed up and thought he'd used both already, so I let him take a bunch of damage without going invisible.So I probably could have made it a bit tougher, but still - those potions really weren't needed at all.[/sblock]</blockquote>