Getting past the bloody spider.

[Mattias]

Gritting my teeth here from trying to beat this creature so bear with me.

I'm at my first 'real' boss fight. Cave of the frozen tears is the location. The largest issue I have with these is the take-away of rage powers for bosses (this comes across as lazy by the way, more on that later). I'll provide some statistics here first:

Level 17 Warrior.

9/14 alchemists (no more to buy).
78/78 bowmen.
12/12 Jarls.
65/65 Berzerkers.
32/32 Axthrowers.

550,000 gold in my pockets.

Because more focused on warrior tree, I don't have memorized level 2 or 3 tiered spells. I think I'm at a standstill because I cannot access any of the other continents to continue grinding my way up the levels to possibly come back and unleash hell on the arachnid. Incredibly sloppy to have the message 'Sorry, we know this seems unfair but the bosses need a chance to fight too'. When I try to access the rage powers. Really? Why not make the boss sectioned timed so that rage-powers worked after countering an assault of baby spiders?

I have not found the game to be a significant difficult yet. Found the challenge to be similar to the last two Kings Bounty games. It's on hard mode, yet I'm just scratching the 'yellow' on the big spider when the last of my units fall.

Is there anyone out here who's actually beaten this spider from this version? I've beat the same spider (also a little frustrating cutting and pasting previous bosses) from the previous games by doing two things not possible:

KB 1: Using a mage and double spellcasting.
KB AP: Progressing further into the game and getting paladins/knights who worked incredibly well on the creature. I've not noticed those at all in the game yet.

Anyone give me a bit of a hand? Really would appreciate it.