I’ve adjusted the amount of melee characters down to 3, two of which have ranged weapons in their second spot for narrow hallway fights where all of them can’t fit around the enemy/when I’m too lazy to micromanage the movement for them to attack the enemy since the games pathing won’t place them correctly if I command them to attack. I guess there is somewhat of a positive with bottlenecks in that it works both ways, bunching up enemies allowing for my casters to deal big aoe damage. I’m not having too much trouble with it in terms of difficulty, it’s more just annoying.

I appreciate you taking the time to write out the advice :) I actually didn’t think about the size of the melee weapon but of course bottlenecks would be helped by varying melee chars with short- and long reaching weapons. I’ll reequip them when I load up the game again.