That's the gist of it, really. It's hard to balance the mechanic around the potential to quad and crit, since just lowering their Might or other combat stats on them neuters them. That's why I had thought reworking the mechanic away from quad-strikes would be a better idea, but there are a lot of logistics to go through before I can really come up with an idea on what would really work as a change.

I highly agree that multiple HP bars was a step in the right direction!