Testplay Red Sands Extended

[Kiras]

As far as difficulty early on: Keep in mind that I'm playing a mage on hard mode. Not impossible.

It's tough to find a fight that can be handled midway through the first island. A number of enemies are blocking paths in very narrow areas, where you can't get around them easily. A lot of beholders too, which move really fast and make kiting hard. However, there's a great supply of troop types, so I managed to clear it. I had pretty bad money woes for awhile.
I'm not sure how hard it'll be on impossible mode. I suspect the money is going to be a crippling problem on the first isle on impossible.

Random question: Have you computed the number of runes to max all skills in vanilla vs your mod?