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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- I definitely had this guy overhyped in my head, and went in prepared to use the rune powder bomb on him and use illithid powers and light of Lathandar to not die in the process. He was definitely not as difficult of a fight as I was told, though I can see how he could be much more difficult if the party was lower level or unprepared.
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Hi! Can you Share your Builds for this one?
Wyll is a Sorceror/Warlock multiclass. At this point he's 5 sorc/2 WL. I had used a trick with a magic item to refresh lvl 1 spell slots and get a bunch of sorcery points, but I don't think they ever actually were used/needed here. He has Great Old One patron so his crits cause fear, as he has a crit focused build later on, and draconic sorcerer for the defense and free spell at level 1. Color of dragon doesn't matter much, it's preference, the +3 AC with no armor is what we're looking at.
Lae'zel is all barbarian and went wildheart with tiger aspect. This allows her to swing in an arc for 1/2 normal damage but hitting up to 3 targets when raging. This arc attack also makes targets bleed. At level 6 she took the aspect of the wolverine so attacking bleeding (or poisoned) targets maim them (that's important in the next bit). Her boots apply reverberation stacks, which lower the targets str/dex/con saving throws by 1 per stack, and at 5 stacks, they have to make a con save or be knocked prone. Prone targets get attacked with advantage by melee attackers, so this will make us hit more often, which is nice since we have great weapon master giving us -5 to our chance to hit. The boots apply that reverberation whenever we cause any other effect on the target, so each bleed and maim effect will also cause the boots to trigger. Her armor also does another effect like reverberation, called radiating orbs. These do -1 to the enemies' chance to hit per stack and go up to I think 10 in the current patch. They lose 2 stacks when they miss and 1 per round. But her chest armor does this in an aoe whenever she deals radiant damage (her melee attacks do here due to a temp buff, act 2 allows ways to get it on all attacks) and it does the aoe orb EACH time she deals radiant damage, so her aoe rage swings trigger it per target. So if I swing once with that arc, and hit 3 targets (the max) they each bleed, and each get 3 radiating orbs, and each orb and the bleed cause the boots to trigger 2 stacks of reverberation. She is over level 5 so she gets a 2nd attack to swing, and since they are bleeding, now they get the maim effect. If the reverberation effects knock them prone, they need to use half their movement to get up next turn. BUT maim reduces movement to 0 so they stay down for as long as I keep maim applied. It's a nice combo build that synergizes really well once you get it going.
Astarion is a monk/rogue. I forget his exact split at this point, but it's hard to mess it up. I believe I went 6 levels into monk and had only 1 in rogue at this point, so that he got more ki points and the standard multi attack. The idea is to get 3 rogue levels for thief and that extra bonus action, and 6 in open hand monk for the added d4+wis damage to all unarmed attacks. Tavern brawler and a strength focus can be used for a lot more damage at the cost of dex and AC, but late game you can compensate by using giant strength potions and keeping dex high, OR using dex gloves to set it to 18, though with late game item options, I'd favor the potions so you can use some better gloves available. Early game you can use finesse one handed weapons to get sneak attack damage and use the unarmed attacks with just bonus actions, since the ki infused ones let you hit twice with the bonus action. Here he's using Phalar Aluve (spelling?) from the underdark for sneak attack damage and a d8 damage die, as well as the item's aoe debuff giving us 1d4 extra damage per hit.
Shadowheart is a cleric/bard but mostly bard. 1 level here of life cleric solely so she can get a little boost to her healing and so she can use heavy armor. Lore bard lets her use a reaction to lower enemies' rolls, and her spells are mostly utility, like crowd control with fear, hold person or glyph of warding (sleep), or haste or longstrider to buff allies. She has gear that applies bless and blade ward when she heals, so her lore bard level 6 spells included mass healing word so she could apply those buffs. She later on gets all the +save DC gear you can find so she has basically a guarantee that her spells will not be resisted. She also gets the illithid ability here in the creche that makes tadpole powers only cost a bonus action.
When I finally finish the honor mode run, I'm likely going to make a longer video going over their builds at various stages of the game.
Thank you! @@Pyromus33
This is where my 2nd run ended. Those swords WRECKED my face 😂
Yeah, I heard a LOT of people's run ended here. That's why I had the rune powder ready to go lol. But the planned out honor mode builds pulled through. Being at level 7 helps, when apparently some people try this at FIVE, which is insane to me. Like 6 sure whatever, but at 5 you skipped a big chunk of the wilderness area.
Same couldn’t handle the 35-40 physic damage
first run endet at owl-bear-mate... didn't think about it being a boss and reading its abilities... second run ongoing - did this fight today, but stil without prep ;o)
Yeah… I’ve had two runs end here… Its ridiculous.
The video here I think the guy low key got lucky, my fights they always seem to hit, and one of those sword things crit for 30. XD
He had way more misses than I saw.
Everyone on my team had decent AC too, 18-20.
damn this lowkey hurt my feelings. he beat the shit out of my party. well done
I knew what I was getting into in advance. Still had the bomb backup plan
Yeah…. this guy ended two runs.
This guy just ended my run yesterday. Killed all his companions in 1-2 turns, but he managed to summon 6 swords and they killed my party in basically 1 turn before I was able to even go invis and escape. I think a major thing why you beat him easily was that he didnt cast mind link to the entire room at turn 1 (maybe because you attacked him before combat?). The mind link made his AC 23 and I basically had no choice but to focus his companions first. By the time I got to kicking him it was already too late.
You can turn invis and leave?
@@patrickmacvane5725 True, but I messed up: My potions of speed ended and 2-3 characters went lethargic on the same turn. My party went from 0 dead to all 4 dead before I had a turn. But yes, I definitely should've pressed the panic button after 6 swords. And now that I think about it, if I just ran, rested and then came back, he would've been alone and easy to kill? Well, next run I won't mess it up
@@HenriLinnainmaa no I didn’t know u could just leave. I’m stuck here on my honor mode play through and I keep having to turn off my ps5 cuz I will die lol
@@HenriLinnainmaa and I know that’s cheating lol but I’m just trying to learn the honor mode fights and I don’t wanna waste a play through just to learn every fight
I hate this fight since my first run in tactician. In this run i just ignored this fight and stoled the lathander blood and went away. Fuck lae'zel plot
Divination wizard with a super low portent die and an opening nova from a hasted paladin dumping crit smites.
I imagine it's a run ender if you cast magic missile on the boss, as it seems he creates one of those magic swords every time he get hit with something. I'd like to imagine someone casting level 3 magic missile on the boss and suddenly seeing their initiate line up completely getting filled up and then some and saying "O no what have I done"
Sorlock is impressive 😮
Yah so the swords missed everyone in your run lol. I was getting hit for 20 something every time. It was insane I managed to invis potion out and save my run
Yeah…. Same. XD
I just lost twice to that azzhole, ruining my evening. For some reason the second, more strategic try went even worse than the blind one when I almost ended him with passive Shadowheart dmg (playing on custom mode with enhanced bosses and tactician difficulty). That robot at the forge was a joke compared to this fight. Soooo.... I'm building a barrel castle around him tommorow ❤
Damn, first time playing and went into the room not knowing it would be a fight, had barely any spell slots and was level 6. Those swords beat the shit out of me.
After a few TPKs, came up with a crown of madness strat on the warrior lady, and she shoved him into the chasm by the bridge and practically guaranteed my win
Also I think the reverberation and swords missing across the board was probably the reason you didn’t experience the pain other people did on this fight
Most people are stumbling in here at level 5/6 and haven’t progressed enough to have the build you do
First run I did this I used the runepowder barrel, 2nd run I just did a few minutes ago I beat the snot out of him with karlach and my PC, just pure barb * monk, and blasted him a few times with 2/2/2 fighter/warlock/sorcerer wyll
Good fight! Honestly can't believe the amount of times the swords missed. When i tried it nuked both astarion and shadowheart in one hit, almost felt a bit too stupid to be true.
I will not be undeleveling con again
in my run, the swords hit hard, but rarly hit.. but when they hit they oneshot my chars... though my radiant orb priest brought the swords to a 0% hitrate... don't know if that was just luck or can be strategy...
Yeah… swords hit hard… the gith being fighters, they basically 2 tapped my Shadowheart, the swords basically make it so you cant move your characters…
Ended my run but I went in way too confident.
I always error on the side of too cautious
I lost my honor mode run to the gith patrol
Good to see that fight done that way. It does look like the Reverberations caused him to spend his Legendary Resistances. It's good to know that for future enemies coming up. Nice work.
How about starting the fight after you come out of astral realm ? Does it change anything ? You are saying its easy. But before that you said your entire party is 100% made for honor mode. Normal player just plays the game and dont focus on that.
yeah im doing this at level 5 and its crazy
Level 5 is underleveled for this fight I’d say.
You need to be at least level 6-7. XD
How is both Astarion and Wyll your main avatar?
Starting in multiplayer
He summoned swords so my warlock summoned the most legendary weapon of them all, an AKM. Blasted his gut and sent him personally to the Astral Plane 😅😂
Akm?
If you just attack him and don’t talk to him right out will lazel get mad and leave it turn against you
Don't know about his mechanics. The only thing i now - he ended my run twice. Then i nuked him.
i bomb it with 7 barrels
XD
Forget about this fight, instead I challenged the Queen and she ended my honor mode with one sentence e.e I'm so pissed
He keeps taking me out of wild shape and keeps ruining runs
Runepowder barrel trivializes this
Your prep is most def what helped and also your level. try it at the appropriate level and yeah it would be tough
This is appropriate level? If you clear underdark, all of the wooded area, and clear the temple the creche is in, you hit 7. Of all my (7?) playthroughs leading up to this one, this is the only time I was missing like a hundred xp there and could have gotten it by going into the prism first, but I didn't want to be positioned like that for the psi swords
@@Pyromus33 yeah I just cleared it at level 5 and shit was rough. I was definitely inderleveled for it
@@patrickmacvane5725 did the fight at level 5 too... got perhaps pretty lucky... but radiant armour and helmet did "solo carry" the fight for me... had just been hard to get through a forest out of 20 weapons to hit the inquisitor... though i don't know if i could to enough xp to be level7 here - otherwise - did pretty much only do less than half of underdark till now
according to plot u choose either the underdark or overland. remember your choice when halsin asked or what minthara said so yeah he is overleveled @@zoefezius6615
Level 7 I’d say is the min level req. xD
No way the swords Always miss at u and ur party Always make critical at him
You mean with Lae'zel having a build that specifically debuffs their accuracy with orbs and Wyll having a build that lowers the roll needed to crit? Crazy how a build meant to do a thing does that thing.
@@Pyromus33how dare they do what they are supposed to do