In my opinion the only issue I suffer from those high-level enemies is the perk battering ram because it changes the way you fight against them, exemple: in the early game you can abuse the block move even if there are too many enemies you could dispatch one by one just with the right timing betweing blocking and thrusting but after they get the hands on that dirty perk thats decided soleny on chance ( as dirty as the crit based on max health by the way ) (and for players I dont think its usefull anyway) can bypass your defences like its nothing and even worse it seems like they “know” when it’s triggered, what I mean with that is that they only thrust you when its sure they will bypass you defences so its even harder to get an opening from their part to get a counter attack because when you do so you’re open to getting hit by the others, so u cant choose when to hit and when to block.

Actually IMHO, I think YOU as the player become WAY more powerful at level 30-40 than any of your opponents. I like that the game sends you more powerful opponents, because if it didn’t – it would stop being a challenge at all when you get to those levels. The thing that makes a game really fun at this point is that you can use a sword you prefer that isn’t the most powerful and still own most opponents. I will often sail around in a smaller class ship at this stage as well relegating my large powerful ships to port controllers for when I need or want to use one or more.

MK