I think I need some hints then. I'm level 70 right now, Fonewm so 30% Gi/Ra tech damage boost. I'm getting my ass handed to me quite litteraly. Vivienne is not an option. Nor do I have any gear to make melee worthwile.
I'm hardly doing reasonable damage even on Hard. Not to mention Very hard. Takes me 5 to 7 Ra-tech casts to finish off a group of monsters. More on very hard I think. It might be different if your force is a alt char with pimped out mag/gear/tech.
But for a starting force this is hell. I don't get the feeling I'm making any progress at all. Every time I level some and go up a difficulty it feels like I just get weaker and weaker with not a single benefit in sight.
I don't see any reason we shouldn't have these quests in one-person mode. As it says the mode is intended for one person. More so than a normal game with a password and a single player.
I've even tried playing with other people today. Horribly failed, probably due to the language barrier. I remember back on schthack ages ago, I had a lvl 160 Fonewearl, Even then I would prefer to play one-person mode Max-Attack ep 4,
just because of the high magic-defence of the monsters in normal mode, meaning I'd become nothing more than a shifta,deband /jellen,zalure vending machine. Ok I was doing some damage with my techs, but the hunters in my team with decent gear were outdamaging me with ease.
It might feel do-able to you, but still, without adepts and a v801, and with low level techs, this is hell.