Those are bad? I thought they were pretty good. Having Fire3 casted on you 3-4 times usually kills any party, though...
Oh, and when I faced the Lich today inside the Temple of Fiends, he killed me with a single attack: Flare(Nuke). There was about 400 damage to each person, and I wasn't at full health. I thought I could beat him without that many problems. Tiamat(first one) wasn't really even that hard when I faced him just before that. The fiends are definitely tougher than the NES ones...I remember killing them in a few hits. Mainly because they didn't have as much HP and they didn't use all too horrible attacks.