How to properly beat the hag's guards?

[Vaarkhan]

I've been wasting the past two hours trying to defeat the swamp hag's masked guards and they've been kicking my ass so hard I've been on the verge of despair many time. Insane healing output, insane damage output, damage actions and reactions, AoE damage, DoT damage, impossible accuracy... meanwhile my group misses 70% shots all the time and makes saves only in the rarest occasion.
I've now managed to beat them but Astarion died... I don't care, screw that posh pony if that's what it takes to finally get past these guys. Holy damn.
A fight on the same level (4) shouldn't be so damn skewed. No other fight has been this insanely difficult so far.

[Vaarkhan]

Also how do you get to to hag after that? The poison clouds explode and IMMEDIATELY respawn lmao, I can't get past them without serious damage.
This game, man.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Sneak past them.

[Dr.Liam]

I had a pain in this fight as well. I was running druid used spider form at the start to put webs down and make sure to take out their healer first if the healer stays alive they will eventually overwhelm you because she heals way to much hp

[Dr.Liam]

Originally posted by Vaarkhan:

Also how do you get to to hag after that? The poison clouds explode and IMMEDIATELY respawn lmao, I can't get past them without serious damage.
This game, man.

You can jump over them, I recommend getting the enhanced leap spell and put it on your party so you can clear the clouds

[Vaarkhan]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Sneak past them.

I tried that once and it did kinda work, however I could not progress because of the poison clouds.
I looked at other videos now and in those the clouds can be exploded and disappear. In my game they explode and remain. I cannot progress.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Originally posted by Vaarkhan:

Also how do you get to to hag after that? The poison clouds explode and IMMEDIATELY respawn lmao, I can't get past them without serious damage.
This game, man.

The best way to get to the hag after that, methodically, is to detonate the clouds and then disarm the gas trap before it detonates again. You'll take a bit of fire damage, but if you time it right and avoid the snaring traps (need good perception) you can get down decently enough.

I will say though - as someone who killed the Hag in my early access run just before launch - if you are struggling with her minions you'll probably struggle with her a lot more.

Edit: You can also just stack jumping improvements on your party with the right spells/items/abilities, or you can maybe even just try mass antidotes (that would be rough though).

Edit 2: Regarding the guards - I recommend getting the high ground ASAP and just doing what you can to focus them one at a time.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by Vaarkhan:

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Sneak past them.

I tried that once and it did kinda work, however I could not progress because of the poison clouds.
I looked at other videos now and in those the clouds can be exploded and disappear. In my game they explode and remain. I cannot progress.

Place an object on top of their vent.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Originally posted by Vaarkhan:

I tried that once and it did kinda work, however I could not progress because of the poison clouds.
I looked at other videos now and in those the clouds can be exploded and disappear. In my game they explode and remain. I cannot progress.

Place an object on top of their vent.

Oh yeah, the object fix is also nice, though then you need to carry enough objects down there (not many in the zone as far as I recall).

[wtiger27]

What level are you trying to do that area?

[BenRichards843]

You have to kill the guards in an order. You can't melee one of them. It must be killed with range. You have to disable the spell caster in the first round. And, as someone mentioned, the high ground helps.

Easy way:
If you kill the hag upstairs, it is real easy. You can AoE her when she's invisible. You only have a round or two to kill her though, so hit her hard and pop off all of your powerful stuff.

[Rudel]

Talk to a sheep via talk to animal spell to have one guard attack you far away from the other ones so they will have to spend 2 turns running towards you. Kill the ones with less HP first. Jump on the rock for high ground. Everything else depends on your class and companions. I took them out with a Cloud of Knives spell pretty easily.

Good luck with the Hag fight, that's a lot more difficult than those four guys.

Edit: oh sorry you meant the 4 masked guys. They always made their wisdom checks and passed a turn for me. Also Wylls Familiar went in first and directly blocked the guy from getting to high ground.

[Vaarkhan]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

What level are you trying to do that area?

Answered in the initial post, level 4

[Dr.Liam]

Originally posted by BenRichards843:

You have to kill the guards in an order. You can't melee one of them. It must be killed with range. You have to disable the spell caster in the first round. And, as someone mentioned, the high ground helps.

Easy way:
If you kill the hag upstairs, it is real easy. You can AoE her when she's invisible. You only have a round or two to kill her though, so hit her hard and pop off all of your powerful stuff.

She has so much hp tho and you still gota go down there for that sweet loot at the end

[Vaarkhan]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Place an object on top of their vent.

I don't see any vents? I've carefully scanned the entire cloud with my mouse, no vent appears.

[sajmon]

idk, i didnt have much problems with those guys (tactician difficulty), so cant help
but clouds: you can jump over them, place object on vents if you can spot them and exploding traps - you can shoot them to explode