don't know if it is the magic or just a general uptweak but they are much tougher now. with defenses in the mid 30s and shield stance set eels were barely brushing me but two shaman roasted my thief in under two minutes. Multiple burns each attack. I could not hide or retreat on them with 50 stealth.

Trollkins and wood trolls are a much safer bridge to duskies now

It's a similar story with the Young Cave Trolls in Hib. Their physical attacks couldn't touch me, and mine were hurting them pretty bad. But then they brought out the Stone Strike.

I dropped from 100% vitality to 30% in 4 casts (there were 2 trolls, so each troll only cast twice) - maybe 30-40 seconds total.

I managed to escape, but then had to tend out the 7 lodged shards that were starting to do fairly nasty pulsing damage.

TL;DR - Any critters that cast multi-shot spells are now rather powerful - more so than their combat ability and appraisal would indicate.