Bleed the Man
Arcane
I'm far from a minmaxer, as I like to choose things for roleplay reasons rather than mechanical benefits, but hard is still fairly easy.I think the creatures are reasonably tunned, it's just the levelling that is off, so once you arrive to Defiance Bay most likely you will start being overlevelled in most encounters you face. Once they manage to tune the experience gain and levelling progression, the difficulty curve should be mostly fine.