The Fox Princess can be defeated even with purple equipment, of course with potions and careful skill usage. We tried to balance the difficulty so you either farm and gear up to the max or use potions and plan your moves in battle. There are also feedbacks that bosses are quite easy, so we will wait and gather more feedback.
Actually it might be in your best interest to block the Boss rooms before MC takes the Quest to defeat the Boss (Barrier maybe?).
The main issue is that people can't gauge the Power of a Boss on the first try, so they might simply get overhelmed not expecting such a tough fight at the time.
In the Rat Dungeon Bosses can be underestimated since group battles can be won easily even if MC is several Level lower than the Boss Level, I tried to apply my experience from the dungeon on the Forest battles, given how I struggle against a strong Fox my assumption for the Boss dificulty might be off.
As for mana regeneration, I really don't understand why you don't use food from the tavern for recovery? In the city, it's even cheaper than near the dungeon. If you can, please explain in more detail, I would be very grateful.
Regular Item consumption tends to be a thing that most RPG experienced Players probably try to avoid, also after seeing that buying 10 of each highest quality restoration Item cost me around 30k so far it's not something viable early on.
At the start I spent most of my money on apples and Mana really only gets a strong issue after recruiting the protector as the first skill has moderate Mana consumption while the combination of the 1st and 2nd skill actually drain your reserves.
So in the Area from Level 6-10 Mana is the main thing that slows down Player explorations... and the forest because Foxes really are outragious in comparison of Power to the Item quality you need their drops for... I tried faceing young foxes with Level 12 and full green equipment and had to rreload unless I wanted to spend several 100 Gold coins worth on restorative Items for a single encounter, it got manageable when my party had got some blue equipment from the protector boss battle includeing it's heal ability.
It's hard to choose here since not everyone gets the summoning stone on the first try. We will also reduce the amount of experience per level in the next update, which should help speed up leveling.
Good that you mentioned the difficulty of the foxes =) Now my partner can no longer defend their difficulty
My advice from before about sealing boss rooms until you get the Quest and get a warning from the Clerk might be the easiest solution here.
There are more foxes in the location, but I absolutely agree that they need to be weakened to make the battles faster and maybe increase the amount of loot as well.
Unfortunately, the game engine strongly resists not pausing everything in battle... I managed to solve this issue for monster respawns and some other simpler mechanics, but with global time and buffs, it's a pain... I'll try to do something about it.
Maybe change the buff to something like a battle counter, MC and party gets buffed for 3-5 battles instead of a set global timer.
Currently it can take 10 minutes if you challenge a Group of 4 enemies with a barely strong enough group.
Also teleporting into an area swarming with monsters makes it an issue that you might loose the blessing before even reaching the boss... returning back to town in that case and try to reach the boss again is likely leading to the mob monsters to respawn before that time and people are stuck in an attempt to reach a Boss with an empowering blessing.
When you head for the Slayer Boss you should expect encountering atleast 3 enemy mobs before reaching the boss room.
City will gradually be filled with side quests and various activities, so there needs to be space for this to avoid issues with save transfers later. From the global map, you can go directly to the mansion if you move your character onto the city territory (the region territory stops flashing). Maybe I'll also add an option to move directly to the shopping district.
Given that I normally only go the house when It's 22:00 and shops are closed a fast travel Option to the Cathedral and the Shops would be appreciated... maybe even consider to include fast travel options whenever you leave a map in the city to reduce the feeling of a walking simulator or use a NPC for a small fee to fast travel for these instances.
Another suggestion even with upgradeable shops I always felt the seperate armorshop as strange... most RPGs have them share a larger building and given the inside space of the shops also being over dimensioned there should be enough space for both counters in a single room... makes a single crafting and enchanting location more viable aswell.
It felt like the Shops and Mansion are some Standard RPGM maps where down scaled characters, like used in the game, feel out of place and giving the feeling of haveing to navigate a city of it self to get interact with all the girls alone
