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Yes, will tweak everything better now we were talking about making battles longer and this made them shorter!

In particular I find druid nukes too powerful. I'm seeing pretty big numbers out of my druid with barely any equipment upgrades over the starting gear.

A very simple suggestion you could try for slowing down combat: Cut all damage, healing and SP costs in half.

I sent you a few files by email, if you can test those, I've increased HP and decreased damage (for now didn't touch SP even if indeed I could decrease that one too).

I just started to play with v0.86, and noticed that Hard and Nightmare-modes both give now 5 attribute points per level - at least in the character creation - (used to be 6 for Hard and 5 for NM in v0.85). Is this intentional?

Ah yes, I decided to reduce the amount of attributes, especially for the easy/normal modes, since doing some simulations you could end the game with values really too high but forgot to write down.
Nevermind I'm about to finishing uploading a fix done with the help of yaysword (the battles are now more balanced).

Alrighty! Yup. 9 attribute points per level previously in the easy mode were indeed past making the game a "walk in the park"

Yes definitely
Just uploaded 0.8.6a with some fixes to the battle that yaysword tested first, so at least now Nightmare should be more challenging. Also if you do the fight with bandits stealing pelts, now this time instead of getting a modulo divide by zero, should print some more accurate debug info!

Now I am the official scapegoat if this build sucks because I tested it for like 20 minutes

Yes if is bad will be only YOUR fault!!!!!!!!
Nah I played it too while you sent your suggestions and noticed immediately that was better than what I uploaded initially

I'm not sure this is new but... Strike Through deals fire damage?