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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Traveon Wyvernspur" data-source="post: 5795778" data-attributes="member: 73201">I'd amp up the monsters with more damage output, toss in some more minions that are like 3+ levels higher than the party, use swarm tactics, build a party of monsters that will respond tactically against the PCs (i.e. they are taking out the cleric first to get rid of the healing coming in or the mage to drop the highest DPS w/ the lowest AC kind of thing). I ran into some issues when I DM'd 4E from 1-30, but my issues with the PCs weren't until they hit EPIC tier where they started tearing through things. That's when I amped up the level of the encounters (I had to go with level 27-30 encounters for a level 21-22 group). So I wouldn't follow the modules by the book, I'd definitely up the difficulty of the encounters if you are having so many problems right now. It sounds like you have a very smart group who min/max. The other thing I'd also check to make sure they have level appropriate gear. It sounds like with 35 AC at level 7 they may have artifacts or wondrous items that should be VERY rare and I'd stomp on that stuff right away before it gets much more out of hand. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think +2 stuff should be the highest they should be having right now to be level appropriate (level 1-5 = +1, level 6-10 = +2....) and the +2 stuff isn't THAT great to give so many bonuses to their abilities/powers and a lot of that stuff that is added into magical items is 1/day or 1/encounter stuff.I see you do 4 encounters before resting which is another good way to offset them. Having them go through waves of fight after fight to drain them (making it impossible to rest and regain some encounter powers - this will put the fear of the DM into them!). I like to use descriptions of things and give waves of harder minions to make them blow their bigger powers, make things sound scarier than they are. Put down minis instead of tokens to represent them, then at encounter 4 or 5 toss in some elites and a solo, mix it up more.I'm sure that I'd do other things a bit differently as well, but w/o knowing your party make-up, stats, gear, etc it's just hard to give you advice other than generalities.</blockquote>

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