Pandamonium is Too Hard! (Rant)

[Martyr]

Which version of the game are you playing? I didn't get ambushed all that often in NES and DoS versions, and actually, I'm not sure if the amount of getting ambushed depends on your stats (maybe speed or luck). I didn't really find any of the Pandemonium enemies that hard, except for bosses. Golems or some other giant enemies take a while to kill, but there are ways to defeat them too (Curse, Berserk and Haste, and maybe Safe and Blink). What I'd suggest is that you leveled up your characters more.

I'm playing the NES version.

I think I literally get "ambushed" more than 1/2 the time. I started counting.

Maria and Frionel, when in battle, almost always attack first, before any enemies, even those in Pandamonium, and almost all the 'ambushers" from Jade can be run from by Maria. So I really don't think that it's a matter of Dex/Speed/Agility.

And I don't think I need to level because I can kil my enemies fine. My elemental spells are 6-8, which should work. Maybe I should get Ice and Bolt to 8, but my main objective these days is just having my mage back my fighters with lv. 11 (and rising) Beserk. Frankly, those very deathknights who kill me in one hitt also have low HPs, and I can kill them in one hit too.
The difference, you see, is that there's 4 of me, not to mention 400 MP of CURE12, and there's 2-4 of them every 10 steps or so.

But the BIGGEST problem is that I casually ignored the importance of evade, and made some very big mistakes just SUPER recently.
1. I sold my Black Robes and outfitted Maria with Diamond Armor. This successfully makes her slower and more likely to take elemental damage (she's in the back row, so it's the only damage she takes). And her speed- Ability to run, ability to cast Bezerk/Haste/ASPL/BREAK/CURE/LIFE/Flare/Elementals before anybody else was always very important to me.
2. I sold a bunch of other Awesome light armors in exchange for the heavy diamond crap, and now my evade is garbage, I'm thinking about outfitting my guys with Gold Armor or trying to target enemies with particular armor drops just so I can return to better dex. *sigh* I just wish I'd researched the Evade/Armor Value situation before I played this game, and definitely before I came to the point where all that's left is Genji (bleach! I'm reading on here that you take more damage for wearing it, and and because it's the best defense armor in the game!)

But I'll dive back in. I'll raise Frionel's magic up to 700, research monsters util I figure out what drops something useful (that I can still locate), fix my stats. Maybe i'll give somebody else healing magic, just for the sake of it, and it will be a hard, long journey through hell.

But let's be honest here. I'm going through Hell. I should expect this. If it was called "leasant" or "Happiness" or "ULTIMATE SIMPLICITY," then it would be cause for alarm.

But it's Hell. It's absolute Pandemonium and absolute Hell.