Commander Zhalk - No exp on defeat

[Kack]

He's the winged guy on the ship with the flaming sword. Was quite disappointed to get no xp for killing him! If a tabletop DM threw a powerful enemy into the mix and pulled the same stunt when it unexpectedly died, I'd find a new DM. At least his Cambion friends give 50.

(Yeah I'm bragging a bit. Please don't hate me :)

[| 2♠7♦ | MEDIC ✚ |]

imposibrooooooo

[k_o]

Did he drop any good loot atleast?

[Kack]

All I got was +100 xp from the Cambions and three greatswords. It's something I guess...

[Alan]

You get experience from killing all the mobs when you get out of combat, for me when I landed on the beach I was level 2 right off the bat which is a nice booster.

[Silverthorn]

All things being equal you "Should" Get some sort of magical blade, possibly something you need to "un corupt" later on when it will not be Op running around at level 2 with a +3 wounding greatsword, or some such.

[Zouls]

Originally posted by Silverthorn:

All things being equal you "Should" Get some sort of magical blade, possibly something you need to "un corupt" later on when it will not be Op running around at level 2 with a +3 wounding greatsword, or some such.

magic items are much more scarce in 5e, a +1 item shouldnt even be gotten before level 5 according to them, also i think its a nice easteregg or something but its so easy to cheese the game that giving a massive reward for killing him feels kinda iffy.

[pgm96]

Originally posted by Zouls:

Originally posted by Silverthorn:

All things being equal you "Should" Get some sort of magical blade, possibly something you need to "un corupt" later on when it will not be Op running around at level 2 with a +3 wounding greatsword, or some such.

magic items are much more scarce in 5e, a +1 item shouldnt even be gotten before level 5 according to them, also i think its a nice easteregg or something but its so easy to cheese the game that giving a massive reward for killing him feels kinda iffy.

You barely need to do anything as there is a mindflayer tanking and attacking hum as well, it'd be the easiest magic gear farm ever

[Zartanyen]

Originally posted by Kack:

He's the winged guy on the ship with the flaming sword. Was quite disappointed to get no xp for killing him! If a tabletop DM threw a powerful enemy into the mix and pulled the same stunt when it unexpectedly died, I'd find a new DM. At least his Cambion friends give 50.

(Yeah I'm bragging a bit. Please don't hate me :)

I was going to try him next, I get 10XP for killing the mindflayer in that battle but it's random sometimes I get it other times I don't and out of like 10 times killing him haven't gotten anything as far as a drop.

[Martin]

Originally posted by Kack:

He's the winged guy on the ship with the flaming sword. Was quite disappointed to get no xp for killing him! If a tabletop DM threw a powerful enemy into the mix and pulled the same stunt when it unexpectedly died, I'd find a new DM. At least his Cambion friends give 50.

(Yeah I'm bragging a bit. Please don't hate me :)

You get a greatsword tho. Which you can sell or give to the gilliwanki woman.

[DM-Ryn]

Originally posted by pgm96:

Originally posted by Zouls:

magic items are much more scarce in 5e, a +1 item shouldnt even be gotten before level 5 according to them, also i think its a nice easteregg or something but its so easy to cheese the game that giving a massive reward for killing him feels kinda iffy.

You barely need to do anything as there is a mindflayer tanking and attacking hum as well, it'd be the easiest magic gear farm ever

I honestly think the problem here is that this is supposed to be a D&D game and people have come to expect to be able to do anything (No matter how insane) and the DM to have prepared / reward the unexpected. I have been doing edge case testing and I can for certain say this game does not account for every edge case of events and you can break it easily. Player rewards seem interesting and favor melee (At least from what I have gathered). It would be nice to receive rewards for edge case events, but I think it is early to assume that this won't change.

[Martin]

Dunno how you could farm the guy.. it isn't like you can import your character.. or can you?

[dolby]

Originally posted by NewPlayer:

Originally posted by pgm96:

You barely need to do anything as there is a mindflayer tanking and attacking hum as well, it'd be the easiest magic gear farm ever

I honestly think the problem here is that this is supposed to be a D&D game and people have come to expect to be able to do anything (No matter how insane) and the DM to have prepared / reward the unexpected. I have been doing edge case testing and I can for certain say this game does not account for every edge case of events and you can break it easily. Player rewards seem interesting and favor melee (At least from what I have gathered). It would be nice to receive rewards for edge case events, but I think it is early to assume that this won't change.

It's clearly not a edge case cos they made a voice line for mind flayer after you kill the commander so no Xp is clearly a bug... same goes for no XP after you kill the mind flayer.
i think a good loot drop here would be fine and would be in the spirit of BG 2 who wasn't to scared to be cool... after all it's single player

[Baraz]

For the effort and risk, why not give a bit of XP. Or maybe some fun loot or a special reaction in game.

[Martin]

They should just let him turn around and 1 shot you.. for being daft enough to try.

[dolby]

Originally posted by Martin:

They should just let him turn around and 1 shot you.. for being daft enough to try.

wtf you talking about you can solo him without mindflayer... if you can't think of anything else you can deathtank him lol