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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 2269145" data-attributes="member: 10993">Our party of five 10th lvl guys fought an Elder Earth Elemental (CR 11) and we had a hell of a time defeating it.Why? DR 10/- and a party composed of a Monk (insufficient damage to penetrate the DR), a Rogue (sneak attack useless), a rapier-wielding swashbuckler-like Fighter (crit's don't work, has no Power Attack, does 1d6+6 damage), a Cleric (insufficient damage to penetrate DR) and my Paladin/Sorcerer.My Sorcerer had to do almost all of the damage to the Earth Elemental himself. The Cleric had two spells that did some damage, but after that it was just Fireball after Fireball while the rest of the party just stood between the Sorcerer and the Earth Elemental. Doing an average damage of 21 points per Fireball and the elemental having 228 hp. it was a long fight....That was one encounter that cost us 80% of our resources and was potentially lethal for multiple party members, just because of our particular party composition.DM's should take always take such things into consideration.</blockquote>