KILL COMMANDER ZHALK

[Ichiban]

hello i'm having trouble killing commander zhalk. please don't judge me this is my first baldur gate. Do you have any tips on how to kill it please? thank you

[Commander Hitman2b]

Originally posted by Kazuma:

Originally posted by Commander Hitman2b:

and i confirmed we did it 2 time in coop both time we collected the weapons and once landed it's dissapeared

have you tried not doing it in coop

no

[Swift]

Pick up the "Dark Brain" and "Slave Brain" items as you head through the ship. Before entering the helm, place those items in the thinnest part of the approaching hallway equidistant from eachother and the walls to make a barrier (don't block yourself from the helm.) You did it right if you get a 'Cannot move there' error when trying to backtrack past your brain blockade.

During the fight, this should lock out the cambions who come to reinforce Zhalk and heavily reduce the RNG factor of winning. Use Guiding Bolt and reload if they both miss. Help the mindflayer and pray RNG is on your side.

[Kazuma]

Originally posted by Oleai:

Pick up the "Dark Brain" and "Slave Brain" items as you head through the ship. Before entering the helm, place those items in the thinnest part of the approaching hallway equidistant from eachother and the walls to make a barrier (don't block yourself from the helm.) You did it right if you get a 'Cannot move there' error when trying to backtrack past your brain blockade.

During the fight, this should lock out the cambions who come to reinforce Zhalk and heavily reduce the RNG factor of winning. Use Guiding Bolt and reload if they both miss. Help the mindflayer and pray RNG is on your side.

but what if i need them for later for some random thing i havent found yet like giant pilotable golems or a super death laser

[Mathiasnyg]

Originally posted by Commander Hitman2b:

Originally posted by Vagabond:

i would to have his weapon

weapons disappear once you land we tried 2 time

That's incorrect.
Have had the weapon on every playthrough since EA. And grabbed it just fine yesterday.
Though be sure its your PC that picks it up, i belive your companions inventories get reset after the tutorial is over.

[chair5768]

Move all the exploding tanks next to him, blow them up when the mind flayer's about to die. There's 1(more?) exploding tanks outside the bridge you can carry in with you. You can also shove him under the little brine things on the ceiling and pop them down on him, you don't have to reduce them to 0 hp, just hitting them will make them fall. Moving long range characters up the stairs will give a height attack bonus, helping you hit. Taking a turn to use Hide on Shadowheart will allow you to gain advantage on your attack roll to land Guiding Bolt. You can throw healing potions at the mind flayer to heal him.

[Caz]

Originally posted by Commander Hitman2b:

Originally posted by matt:

that's not true. you can loot the demon guy's giant fire sword, and you keep it after you land. I just did it.

and i confirmed we did it 2 time in coop both time we collected the weapons and once landed it's dissapeared

Coop is known to be wonky right now.

Originally posted by Commander Hitman2b:

Originally posted by Daniel_USA:

you have to loot the sword dumby haha xD

we DID 2 TIME do you read ?

Yes. Do you? People have said it doesn't disappear. I got the sword, too, and it did not disappear after landing.

[Madix]

Originally posted by Commander Hitman2b:

Originally posted by Vagabond:

i would to have his weapon

weapons disappear once you land we tried 2 time

Not so. I have the 2h flaming sword on my character now and several hours in

[Eckoh]

You get a +1 greatsword and +1 greataxe really early in the game if you go get the barbarian companion... kinda makes that sword irrelevant...

[Sophis]

Originally posted by Mathiasnyg:

Originally posted by Commander Hitman2b:

weapons disappear once you land we tried 2 time

That's incorrect.
Have had the weapon on every playthrough since EA. And grabbed it just fine yesterday.
Though be sure its your PC that picks it up, i belive your companions inventories get reset after the tutorial is over.

Didn't reset for me. Got it with Laezel during the fight and she still had the sword after the prologue.

[Fizzbiscuts McGuffin]

I didn't even know you could kill him since in my game the mindflayer died like 4 turns in and never hit zhalk lol

[dolby]

Originally posted by AzzUK:

You can always put the Hold spell on Shadowheart and make him drop the weapon.

This, he gets it... :)

It's command spell: subspell called drop... After that you just pick up the weapon and surround him with everyone helps if you have US with you recast command this time flee subspell and he will eat a bunch of AoOs...

THe problem is the timer if you want to kill the two adds that show up later at 5 turn cos those two adds have 100+ hp each and not alot of time to get it to zero.

[Dzin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50R1EmEZi1M

[Ichiban]

Thanks for your tips guys! I just killed him and got his weapon

[Kazuma]

Originally posted by Vagabond:

Thanks for your tips guys! I just killed him and got his weapon

what type of weapon is it 2hand or 1 hand

[Vorg444]

If you just want the sword rescue shadowheart switch her spells and pick command spell go up to the demon and command drop it makes him drop his sword and you can pick it up and leave.