Combat in this game is chronically unfun.
It's painfully slow, and your characters, no matter how competently built, are so unreliable it's not even worth it.
Itemization, stacking buffs on your party and debuffs on the enemy, and procuring advantages through the environment is meaningless, either way you'll get fucked by your characters inability to roll anything above a 5, and the enemies immunity to rolling anything below a ten.
Using a spell or ability that has the target make a saving throw?
Might as well waste your action throwing a fish at them, it's not going to work 90% of the time.
Trying to break an enemy's concentration?
Only reliable way is to kill them, and even then, they'll successfully save from the attack that killed them, just to stick it in your face.
Did you miraculously manage to hit a 13 AC goblin with your 21 STR + prof. barbarian with a +1 weapon after two failed attempts?
Enjoy the 2 on the d12 damage roll.
The only way to not suck at combat reliably is to become a barrelmancer or just spam AoE spells and long rest after every two encounters.
Everything else in this game is excellent or fine, but I dread everytime I see a combat encounter is inevitable, because I know I'll just get fucked by RNG for ten minutes straight.
