Today Petater, some random derps, and I did Compound 42. It was fun.

But do you know what wasn't fun? Watching a Mender hide in a patch of Shadow Fire without a water pot while spamming heal runes, so we couldn't hit xyr with anything until Petater managed to get it out of the patch with a gun. Mortafires were even worse since we couldn't get close enough without meeting Bob the Invisible Fire-Inflictor, and unlike the Menders, it wouldn't run away from a bullet that'd take away about 2% of its health. We just sorta left it there and dealt with other monsters while being barraged by rockets and surrounded by Toxoil patches. When it finally bid a fond farewell to its rather toasty abode, I accidentally pushed it away into the corner, spent a long time trying to get around its barrier, and ended up spamming Alchemer charges behind it in an attempt for a lucky hit.

My suggestion is to make Shadow Fire either un-passable for monsters like us knights or to make it actually inflict damage on them. Probably the first, as otherwise people would ask about making spikes and status traps doing the same. Also make Mortafire shields breakable/smaller coverage/only reduce damage by a percentage not equal or greater than 100%/do some other nifty thing like the Morta swinging it into your face for decent damage. I like fighting hard monsters, but I don't like fighting CHEAP monsters. It's one of the reasons I don't bother speaking out against the government.