Everburn Blade no longer obtainable?

[Thadeus]

So Larian nerfed the amount of explosive barrels on the ship precisely because players were cheesing the fight by blowing him up. Now there are 4 barrels total on the ship, and that's not enough to kill him.

Obviously he's still pretty much invulnerable to the player characters, so killing him normally is a no-go until the adds come and the timer expires.

So my guess is that unless you're really lucky with RNG, you can't get that weapon anymore.

[Nyaria]

I killed him through alot of save scumming.

The blade's still there, my Vengence Paladin is using it.

[Izuzul]

I've done it with both of my new characters. It's a little tougher, but very much possible. There is even an achievement for doing it.

Edit: To get the achievement you or a member of your party has to get the kill, it wont register if the mindflayer kills him.

[Stoibs]

I didn't even know there were explosive barrels there
Playing on 'Normal' difficulty I managed to bring him down also. No comment on tactician.

[Snidi]

already got it twice, once solo once in coop with a friend, didn't barrel were a thing this early in the game, use guiding bolt, savescum (a bit lets be honest) and mindflayer is your friend until he is not, hope that helps.

[markfariasii]

I managed to kill him. Had the brain (US) and Shadowheart for the fight. Had to use Shadowheart to heal the mindflayer long enough to whittle the boss' health low enough, and then killed em both. Had about 8 or 9 turns left when I finished.

[Я в космосе]

Well...we kill him for 6 turn. Bard, warlock, Shadowheart( miss all she can), Lae'zel and brain with 4 legs.

[Kinja]

"Equip the spell 'command' on shadowheart and have her command 'drop weapon' on the commander, pick up the sword with Lae'zel and equip it and proceed to whack him while he hits the mind flayer for 6 and 7's."

I struggled for 2hours to kill him the regular way on tactician but someone posted this in another thread.

[Thadeus]

Originally posted by Kinja:

"Equip the spell 'command' on shadowheart and have her command 'drop weapon' on the commander, pick up the sword with Lae'zel and equip it and proceed to whack him while he hits the mind flayer for 6 and 7's."

I struggled for 2hours to kill him the regular way on tactician but someone posted this in another thread.

Wait, what? NO WAY!

[Calsetes]

I killed him, even got the achievement for it. It's tough, especially since he has a lot of HP and takes half damage from most sources, but it's definitely doable:

-Focus fire on him exclusively
-Make sure you use your special attacks like the bleeds and stuns and whatnot on him
-He is NOT resistant to radiant damage, and the cleric you can get has that as a cantrip

[otakon17]

Originally posted by Kinja:

"Equip the spell 'command' on shadowheart and have her command 'drop weapon' on the commander, pick up the sword with Lae'zel and equip it and proceed to whack him while he hits the mind flayer for 6 and 7's."

I struggled for 2hours to kill him the regular way on tactician but someone posted this in another thread.

Like that would work without tons of reloads. I couldn't get Command to work consistently on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ low level Goblin with a -1 to WIS saves for crying out loud.

[Thadeus]

Yeah, I did it with a bit of save scumming.

Just gotta have Shadowheart cast Command on him until it works, which will take like 5-7 times. Then you can just pick it up and then activate the console to leave, OR stick around and try to kill him for the XP.

I just planted the explosive barrels around him just to have a failsafe. The barrels will most definitely kill the mindflayer but they really don't do a lot of damage to Zhalk nor his adds, so you gotta have have a guy near the console to hit the button if things seem hopeless.

[Alealexi]

Originally posted by Thadeus:

So Larian nerfed the amount of explosive barrels on the ship precisely because players were cheesing the fight by blowing him up. Now there are 4 barrels total on the ship, and that's not enough to kill him.

Obviously he's still pretty much invulnerable to the player characters, so killing him normally is a no-go until the adds come and the timer expires.

So my guess is that unless you're really lucky with RNG, you can't get that weapon anymore.

I was able to get the sword on the first try. It was easier than in EA. You just need to learn to use what you have like Shadowhearts Protection from Good and Evil on the mindflayer. Still had 12 turns left before the ship crashed.

[LordAnubis]

I got the Everburn Blade yesterday. I only had to reload and restart the fight once. Yes, it's meant to be an extremely hard fight. The Everburn Blade is an extremely powerful weapon for a level 1 character to obtain. Very few GMs would award a weapon like that to a level 1 character in tabletop.

[Haron]

also there a spell: order to lay down weapon or arms (dont remember in english), if your spell hits he will drop weapon and you can pick it up

[Clovis Sangrail]

Power Word: Reload