Anders the paladin

[MEGA_COLT]

Everyone should know how awfully broken this AI is. I have seen a ton of fighting in this game this AI just outright cheats. His dexterity is 11 and +0 to it and yet he manages to dodge nearly every single attack with 90% hit chance. His Armour class is even worse than some of the characters and takes no more than 5 damage a hit. Also, I'm playing with friends and we roll through everyone else except for this doo doo brain. Not really complaining but I would just like to know how everyone else's fight with this piece of doo doo went.

[Recjawjind]

RNG is well, random.
Sometimes you just miss a couple times in a row despite good odds.

[sevensided]

Karlach Beserker with Greatweapon Master and +1 Maul crushed him in one turn. (Standard Difficulty)

[tlenz]

Yeah, I didn't even go in with a plan, and Anders was paste in one or two rounds. I was using my dream team of me (open palm monk), Karlach (wolf heart for advantage on attacks), Astarion because sneak attack, and whoever the hell else.

I think Shadowheart because who cares at that point. I was level 4 at that point...I really think you're probably meant to face them at maybe level 3.

[Alealexi]

Originally posted by MEGA_COLT:

Everyone should know how awfully broken this AI is. I have seen a ton of fighting in this game this AI just outright cheats. His dexterity is 11 and +0 to it and yet he manages to dodge nearly every single attack with 90% hit chance. His Armour class is even worse than some of the characters and takes no more than 5 damage a hit. Also, I'm playing with friends and we roll through everyone else except for this doo doo brain. Not really complaining but I would just like to know how everyone else's fight with this piece of doo doo went.

I was able to one shot him with my paladin. Don't see what all the fuss is about.

[Lasion]

Originally posted by tlenz:

Yeah, I didn't even go in with a plan, and Anders was paste in one or two rounds. I was using my dream team of me (open palm monk), Karlach (wolf heart for advantage on attacks), Astarion because sneak attack, and whoever the hell else.

I think Shadowheart because who cares at that point. I was level 4 at that point...I really think you're probably meant to face them at maybe level 3.

Went in with me a sorc, wynn as lock\sorc, karalck barbarian and shadowheart as clearic.
Anders started the turn with 1-shotting shadowheart. I did ♥♥♥♥-all damage to him cause everything missed.

Turn two he one-shot (with his two attacks) my main char, and from there on out I was straight ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

It was a total wipefest in 3 turns. EZ RNG.

[Maligner]

Originally posted by Lasion:

Originally posted by tlenz:

Yeah, I didn't even go in with a plan, and Anders was paste in one or two rounds. I was using my dream team of me (open palm monk), Karlach (wolf heart for advantage on attacks), Astarion because sneak attack, and whoever the hell else.

I think Shadowheart because who cares at that point. I was level 4 at that point...I really think you're probably meant to face them at maybe level 3.

Went in with me a sorc, wynn as lock\sorc, karalck barbarian and shadowheart as clearic.
Anders started the turn with 1-shotting shadowheart. I did ♥♥♥♥-all damage to him cause everything missed.

Turn two he one-shot (with his two attacks) my main char, and from there on out I was straight ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

It was a total wipefest in 3 turns. EZ RNG.

Unless he critted every attack, sounds like you're level 2. That sounds a little low for the encounter. Or maybe start the fight with a sneak attack or do something different than a head on battle when you are low level.

[KocLobster]

Originally posted by MEGA_COLT:

Everyone should know how awfully broken this AI is. I have seen a ton of fighting in this game this AI just outright cheats. His dexterity is 11 and +0 to it and yet he manages to dodge nearly every single attack with 90% hit chance. His Armour class is even worse than some of the characters and takes no more than 5 damage a hit. Also, I'm playing with friends and we roll through everyone else except for this doo doo brain. Not really complaining but I would just like to know how everyone else's fight with this piece of doo doo went.

doo doo brain lol

[Loquitran]

I had to google who is Anders and I know why I don't know about him, the fight was a cakewalk. I think I had Lae'zel using combat maneuvers or something like that. I steamrolled this fight, I think you just got really unlucky.

[Stranger]

So, I played in the first days of Early Access a long time ago and wanted to grab Karlach early since the last time I touched the game she wasn't recruitable yet. I hit level 2 before the Commander of the Nautiloid, I hit level 3 before the fight outside the Druids, not sure if I was level 4 for sure when I got to this encounter but I think I was, so keep that in mind.

Anyway I had Wyll, Shadowheart, and Karlach in my party pretty much using their nub gear and I was planning on strategically placing them one at a time before walking her through the door and kicking off the fight. . .Except as soon as I opened the front door she was too close and combat was immediate with Wyll and Shadowheart not even on the landing outside the tollhouse door.

I got lucky with initiative and all of my characters got to move before any of the enemies which is probably what saved me. My main is a Wood Elf Rogue with a rapier and from the cutscene position he was given he had just enough movement to reach the mage in the back, drop into stealth, and backstab her. I got lucky with a crit which left her at like ten or fifteen HP. Originally I was going to send Karlach after her because her 4th level feat is Mageslayer but so much for that plan. I sent Wyll into the room and he had just enough movement to get up the ladder and he cantrip blasted the ranger, Shadowheart and Karlach attacked the ranger also and managed to kill her.

The mage went next, because her health was low she didn't move away and instead fired off a spell with disadvantage and missed then threw some sort of potion attack that hit. I took like ten damage which was like half my health but my rogue would finish her off the text turn. My memory was that that mage was the worst of the three but man that Doo Doo Head is much more beefy than I had remembered. Anders came out swinging and just chopped the ♥♥♥♥ out of Karlach and even had an attack left over for Shadowheart but her AC was like 17 and he missed. She was able to tank him for another turn although she took a lot of damage while Wyll kept blasting and I got my rogue in position to give a sneak attack that left him at like 3HP - at that point I brought in Wyll's Imp who had been invisible and delivered that little bit of damage needed to finish off the encounter -which is my usual tactic with that guy. Since most enemies can't detect him, I just hold in reserve until an enemy is super low on health and then bring him for a kill.

Some encounters are worse than others depending upon what type of character you are playing and to be honest I am not sure how I would beat a lot of these with anything other than a rogue. Getting enemies in a surprise round allows me to wipe sometimes entire encounters out first turn and I often take a lot of damage in fights I can't prep for first and can imagine getting wrecked pretty easily if I had been caught completely unaware for any of them.

[some guy]

these are my favorite threads because in every single game with dice there is at least one thread that claims the rng is broken :D

[Kyutaru]

Originally posted by MEGA_COLT:

Everyone should know how awfully broken this AI is. I have seen a ton of fighting in this game this AI just outright cheats. His dexterity is 11 and +0 to it and yet he manages to dodge nearly every single attack with 90% hit chance. His Armour class is even worse than some of the characters and takes no more than 5 damage a hit. Also, I'm playing with friends and we roll through everyone else except for this doo doo brain. Not really complaining but I would just like to know how everyone else's fight with this piece of doo doo went.

Who? *googles* Oh that guy. He was easy.

I cast Enlarge on my warrior and went toe to toe with him while Sleeping the archer in the room and closing the door so the other archer wouldn't enter. Anders died in like two rounds then I made quick work of his archer buddy. The last guy was the most annoying because they kept running away but I eventually sneak attacked her to death too.

[cniudae]

Rng is strong in this one, i reload the mission because I didn't like how cutscene played .
Sometimes I was fighting for my life, sometimes I mowed them like was nothing