still not really...the project image supercheese will allow you to summon hordes of pets to soak up the damage, i handled it easily with a sorc led party...and the trick to handling mel is to know sunfire and dragon breath ignores magic resistance...g acuity, and unleash all your dragon breaths on mel, and then trigger spell triggered sunfire....
dont even need fighters, really...
a sorc with good spell selection can easily handle anything in original tob, and with a good party, can handle anything in ascention...tho abzegal, with the multiple dragons is hard....
but once again, dragon breaths will save the day...love the spell, far far by far one of the best spells for any party....
sorcs rule....
as alson discovered in eclipse, telly field will always drastically shift the balance of power back to your party, as it breaks the enemys personal initiative....makes your party immune to their mondo meelee skills for 3 rounds, time enough to cast a bunch of spells and thin them out a little...and telly field stacks!!!!