I just managed to Kill Commander Zhalk and the Cambions on the Nautiloid Tutorial

[✠ Hasi ✠]

Its kinda tricky as for me none of the Early Access tricks did work properly.
Killing Zhalk and escape is easy but killing the Cambions is quite challenging and took me several attempts. Its probably way easier if you play coop.

Here is how I did it:

1) Have a Bard in your party for epic music and start with heroism-spell
2) Prepare Command Spell and Bless on Shadowheart before fight
3) Grab the Nautiloid Tank next to the pot where Shadowheart was caged in with a member of your party.

Before you enter you cast Bless with Shadowheart on your character, Laezel and Shadowheart herself. After that you immediately heal with the healing pod at the entrance and enter the Helm.


First you kill the small mobs and move closer to Zhalk each turn.
Shadow Heart on her first turn casts "Command"-Spell (save game before you cast and reload if it fails) on Zhalk so he drops his weapon.
(He wont pick it up again so you dont have to be fast grabbing it)

I moved my Bard close to the Mindflayer and cast "Heroism"-Spell on him, which gave him 5 temp hitpoints each turn and Zhalk only deals 6 DMG (so maximum of 1 dmg per turn on Mindflayer) without weapon so your Mindflayer should be pretty much full HP when the 2 Cambions arrive.

What you do now is you cast Bless on the Mindflayer, Lae`zel and your character with Shadowheart after you killed the small mobs.

Lae`zel should grab Zhalks dropped sword and hits Zhalk with it as she inflicts 5-12 dmg each round on him.

Meanwhile Shadowheart drops the Nautiloid Tanks 1 by 1 on top of each other in the middle of the steps, roughly 3 cms before the steps start (at the entrance) as this is where the Cambions will sit after 2nd turn and you blow them up when they stand right next to them with Shadowheart.

Cambions appear at Turn 9 so you should be ready until then.
Also make sure that you kill the Mobs behind Zhalk so you have a free way to leave the battlefield (this can be done easily by 1 character)

When the cambions arrive make sure your party is on the other side of the Mindflayer a bit further away. Zhalk should still be alive at this point and you should not attack him as the Mindflayer will turn against you when he is dead. Attack the cambions, tank with Lea`zel and US and maybe drop another weapon with command spell.

If you are lucky, the Mindflayer will face 1 Cambion after Zhalk is dead and you try to kill the other, tho dont stand in his line of sight as he can kill you with one AOE Spell.

If you only face 1 Cambion always revive dead party members with "Help"-Action immediately and let the tank again. Also use Heal Pods as much as needed.

It was a tough fight for me but I managed to escape at the last turn and got to loot all Mobs.

One of the Cambions drops a legendary (duno if legendary but its purple) arrow which does immense damage to dragons. (Might need that one later?)

Anyways, if you dont coop with a friend this fight is pretty tough and I couldnt find any exploits from the EA working.

[Uncarriable]

This also worked for me. Still took a couple of tries because now the mind flayer had too much health. Thanks tho! I got a different arrow so it's probably random. Good gold tho

[Ziros]

Did Zhalk drop anything? First kill solo and second kill coop dropped nothing. 3rd kil coop dropped an uncommon 2h sword

[rakshasa72]

Yeah, the OOC restore bug has been fixed. I was disapointed with how they changed the Nautiloid over all. It's pretty lame now.

[Kel]

Originally posted by Ziros:

Did Zhalk drop anything? First kill solo and second kill coop dropped nothing. 3rd kil coop dropped an uncommon 2h sword

A 2 handed Sword with fiery Enchantment.

[jayman760]

I just got both Zhalk and the Mindflayer down to less than 1/4 health then dropped them both with the nautiloid tanks. I didn't worry about the cambions, just parked "Us" at the entrance and he distracted them long enough for me to escape.

I like the use of Command and that would work great for a quick loot if you don't care about the xp.

[kojak]

just kill zhalk grab his sword and move on

[Xenu]

Just cheese him and get the little brain buddy to help.
Did it with a Barb. Just hit it melee until it dies. Just got to be a little lucky with your rolls keep the mindflayer alive by buffing his defence cause if he dies it's way harder, if you can also buff the mindflayer dice rolls he does huge damage

[Xenu]

Originally posted by Kel:

Originally posted by Ziros:

Did Zhalk drop anything? First kill solo and second kill coop dropped nothing. 3rd kil coop dropped an uncommon 2h sword

A 2 handed Sword with fiery Enchantment.

It's really good. Been playing 10 hours with the sword so far.

[✠ Hasi ✠]

Its definitely worth trying to kill the Cambions but yeah, its kinda hard if you are not cooping with someone and probably not worth the effort. You get like 300-500 gold and some valuable loot from them and of course lots of XP which gets you half way to lvl 3 after tutorial which is very nice as you definitely get to lvl 3 before you go to the Druids Camp.

[Lightning]

I stacked the 3 bombs where the 2 cambions go at the bottom of the stairs but when they blew up it only did 2 damage to each of them not sure what else i'm missing