Well, my situation is pretty much screwed. I think I joined the Anama with a very bad team. My priest kicks much ass, but my former mage is a shadow of what he used to be. In the previous games, I remember, joining the Anama gave you a 1:1 ratio on your mage spells to priest spells. So, technically, my mage should have been around level 10 in priest spells, but for some reason, he only got 8. So I had to waste points just to get him up there.
My party:
Human Front Line Fighter with around 8 strength, 7 dexterity, 7 endurance, 7 melee
Nephil Archer with 6 strength, 10 dexterity, 6 endurance, and 12 in bows with around 6 in sharpshooter
Human Priest with 6 strength, 5 dexterity, 8 intellegence, 6 endurance, and 17 in priest skills
Slith Battlemage with 7 strength, 4 dexterity, 8 intellegence, 7 endurance, had 10 in mage skills, now 8 in priest skills.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. With everything costing so many damn points as I level up, I can't invest in much, because that takes around 3 or 4 levels to raise something twice. Most of my game now has been buffing first, going into a battle, letting my front and battlemage bottleneck enemies, hope I can deal enough damage with my front line and priest casting smite to remove things, and then struggle my way into the boss fight. I did the first artifact dungeon with all of the slith and had to reload around 7 times, and that's even before I meet the boss. And I only beat the boss because he didn't summon millions of shades like he usually does.
Right now, I'm trying to do the Lake of Trials and I'm almost ready to throw my keyboard out the window. And this is just fighting those Repulsion Spheres. Then I get into the two battle tests and don't last more then 2 rounds. The demon does a hell of a lot of damage to me and the fire burns for too much damage, and the other test with the frost slime...one attack from one of them drops all of my characters to about half health. And they have, like, 4 right away.
What am I doing wrong?