After leveling a solo sorcerer to 460, I've now matched that with a full party (KKAS). My hopes were to get to the point where I could handle everything with just melee combat - no spells. For the most part, I'm there. I can waltz through the Hive in a few minutes, never cast a spell and never go into turn based and have barely a dent in anybody's hit points. I'm confident I could do the same thing in Hermit's Isle or Paradise Valley if not for the possibility of being eradicated by Supreme Titans. I cleared MOST of Dragonsand that way (breaking things was a bit of a hassle), until I got to...The Gold Dragons. And I run into the same thing when I do the arena every week. It's not that they are so hard to kill (they're not), it's that they are the one creature that can still do significant damage to my characters in a short period of time. In the arena I can clear them easily enough, but I still have to go into turn-based and stop and repair at least twice and I will still end up with a couple of characters in the yellow and sometimes one in the red in terms of hit points.
They're just off the charts compared to anything else in terms of doing damage. I never knew before how really unusual they are.
