Nightmare is brutal With enemy scaling 😮 info dump time The taverns xp boost I believe applies for anyone you hire from the people/baroness/necromancer. Mace weliders imo are superior to the berserker. Both classes are early game units. To the point the tier 1 ability adaptive marksmen removes the min range on their respective attacks. And doesn't need to go above level one. A shaman could help solve healing issues. Mana assassin tier 2 trait wildheart makes them a great glass cannon. I think the only way to train is by doing earlier championships and using that exp boost trait. I think the battle arena difficulty scales with the amount of championships you've complete (and possibly applies to the one your on. That might be from nightmare difficulty) sorry for the book. Still loving the content

i believe the cleric is faster than the tank and gets hit first can't heal himself and so never uses his heal until the tank takes damage

Here is my logic of the problem. If number of the underachievers is more than one, lets say two, you can't put only one of them into the battle, the other one will suffer. So you put them both at the same time. Also, you must be able to replace your best two, otherwise it does not make sense. I see one solution. You have to have the army so strong that if you replace two or more highest levels for lowest ones, nothing bad will happen. Regarding berserker. Just put more stats in agility. Almost a main stat. Hes punch, kick and block based on it. P.p.s Totally agree with you about priority system. Just shit. Leave 3 prorities for your troops: melee/ranged/support targets and thats it. Similar problem with item swapping. Just make them unswappable. Wanna new item in a slot? Destroy or sell previous one. Without these obnoxious routines the game would have been quite alot better.