Greetings and salutations!
I have not played sacred for at least 10 years - back then we had a huge community, sprawling forums, tons of data... most of it lives as archives, but the rest is gone of course.
So I grabbed Sacred GOLD on GOG and decided to relive the good(bad) old days.
Back then I think Daemon was the most played character in our group, version of game was the one last patched before Sacred Gold (as far as I understand - because Sacred gold made something to Dwarf's flamethrower capping its damage on 10k)
One of the most popular schemes was Battle Daemon with some magic support added on Gold/Platinum - Choir, Spheres, whatever you like.
So I made the character, ran around for a couple of evenings on bronze remembering stuff, then exported to silver and jumped into campaign.
And now I hit the WALL that I remember NEVER happened to me before. I am currently level 31 with level 31 Battle Daemon and maxed out Weapon Lore and constitution. Enemies can't even hit me I already killed two dragons - the one in castle and the one in forest. All normal mobs die from 1 hit, blues die from 2-3.
So I came to undead dragon - the one I always remembers as EASIEST one, and suddenly I can't do zilch. D'Cay level 33 does not give a damn about my defence, hitting 100% of times, removes 1/3 of my hp per hit, I am constantly super poisoned and super slowed down, so I can't even run around her forcing her to breath and damaging her during animation like I always did with Gladiator, and I do miniscule amount of damage, also not hitting most of the time. It's like my battle form bonuses just not there. I drink the whole inventory of poitions (I forgot I even HAVE poitions with this character till now...) and I am still barely able to bring her down to 1/3 of health, then I just die. After about 20 attempts I gave up.
I am really deflated and not sure if I should go on with the character, becuase it seems I either made some huge mistake or there has been some balance changes between last versions.
Can anyone give some advice what da heck is wrong?