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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ceraus" data-source="post: 4633152" data-attributes="member: 76818">Yeah, the Solo damage my method produces is scary. A quick fix would be to multiply the bonus damage by 1.5 for Elites and 2.5 for Solos. Any less would not compensate sufficiently for the HP loss.I strongly stand by my minion suggestion as a quick fix to their uselessness for anyone. Even though it allows them to drop a player really fast with teamwork, it's not worse than at 1st level.(A complete minion fix would entail reducing the resulting damage to about 75% and give minions a shared "HP bank". A minion has 1/4 its equivalent Standard monster's HP. When a minion takes damage -- up to its max HP -- note it. Damage is always applied normally, with no reserves about needing to hit and automatic damage. Whenever the total noted damage passes the minion max HP, take a minion out of the fight. I'd go on, but this is neither the place, the time nor the size.)My suggested changes might seem really complicated, but they're adapted from my monster creation rules, where I use lower HP per level and my own damage tracks. I consider low level monsters to have almost the right balance but high level ones to have too much HP and not deal enough damage. While the changes I outlined take a long time to apply to existing monsters, at least they take a shorter time when I'm building new enemies. The changes also bring every monster closer to its role and elite-ness and bridge part of the unbalance gaps. As an answer to the thread's outlined problem, I might have gone slightly overboard, though.Last comment:-25% monster HP / +33% monster damage works.Although it does nothing to correct the fact that monster HP raises too fast while their damage can't keep up (OK, last time I mention that), it is entirely balanced with the current rules. It might also be enough of a change for your group.HP will be easy enough to modify, and for damage, just add to each attack 1/3 its expected damage. Note, however, that critical hits won't follow (which might not bother you anyway) and ongoing damage needs a 33% bump too.</blockquote>

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