Those first I.D.s are actually balanced to murder you, so as to demonstrate stealth / moments where being Fancy is the trick. You kind of aren't intended to take them in a walk up fight, even on normal.
To be fair that intellect devourer fight is a little over the top on tactician, it's just you and shadowheart and the monsters have a ranged attack that can one shot spellcasters without critting
Definitely tough with just you and Shart. Only found out recently that you can avoid the intellect devourers and fill out your party before fighting them.
Larian was real for making some of the first monsters you fight do like 2/3rds of the hp of a level 1 character. Made you extremely aware of the importance of character placement
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