I thought Solana and the rest were boss characters too so I was looking at something like 'wow, they killed like a CR 28 solar in a round' and 'that astral stalker had to be at least the same' then I ran into a brick wall. I didn't go to the other spots because everything in them looked seemingly immune to me or would be dead before I would be able to act or get through defenses. I didn't realize there was only one boss monster in the grouping.<br/><br/>I'll try to narrow things down a little bit I think. Mostly I want to get shadow conjuration at 4th level sorc and I think I'll alter the weapon a little bit and drop a bunch of metamagic stuff. Direct Damage is clearly never going to be my thing with spells so switching fireball and scorching ray out will help. I can shift over empower, energy sub, and rapid metamagic into more corpsecrafting or item creation stuff doing that too.<br/><br/>I guess I'll just monkey around with some spell selections, the item, and some feats a little and keep the rest since that's been recommended. I think a lot of the confusion came from thinking the idea was 'we all split up and take sections of the fight on' with the idea being 'there are 3 boss level monsters designed for a split party' then I ran headfirst into the boss monster which I thought was on par with the other groupings so that had me a little stunned at watching what I thought were 2 bosses beaten soundly instantly and me flailing blindly at the same.