How do you win the ****ing Nere fight?

[Cy]

So I'm completely stuck. After freeing Nere I get right into a boss fight with him and about 10 other characters who all attack multiple times per turn. It's a completely unwinnable fight, and the only way I can get around it is by siding with Nere, which I don't want to do because I'm RPing a good character, or long resting and having him die in the cave in, which I don't want to do because it destroys the moon lantern and kills all the gnomes I've been trying to save for the last 3 hours. How am I supposed to win this fight? It seems impossible, even on explorer mode.

[Kyutaru]

You begin the fight surrounded by enemies and lava.

Step 1: Get away from the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lava.
Step 2: Minimize the number of enemies that can hurt you.
Step 3: Fireball.

[info]

Ally with the other group of Duergers. Brother something - sorry, can't remember his name.

[Pathetic]

Ally with the Elder who's angry Nere hasnt paid back his massive debt of gold. Then, ungroup your party and send the spell casters/ranged attacks up a ladder nearby (theres one enemy there but you can push them). Then make sure you never put yourself in a position where you can pushed into lava. Nere died in two turns for me and middle difficulty

[KonCode]

I fought the guys before i blew the passage. I pushed a lot of them into the lava and then used high ground.

[Rootbeerisgood]

Start the fight before you blow the rocks up. I put my rogue up on the rafters way up top and he was an untargetable sniper shooting and hiding every turn.

[quixoticaxis]

Wait till he dies of poisoning and do not fight him. Also an option.

[Reaper]

I Cheesed all the dudes before freeing him by sniping from above. Running far enough away to drop combat and did that 3 times to kill everyone cleanly.

Then proceeded to fight just him and dropped an anti magic monk thing over him and my monk and barb beat him down.

[Stranger]

Beating him is easy, what pisses me off is even when you kill him before the cinematic where kills the Rock Gnome she is still dead either way.

So many quest glitches in this game

[ZeUwUbs]

Well, you can also go with the nuclear option. Talk to the rebels and agree to work with them, betray them when you free Nere, and then cause as much 'friendly fire' incidents as you can...

Helped me to be able to save the slaves over there and manage to pass the encounter with only cantrips and no fireballs :P

[Midnight]

It's hard to fight them all.

But you can kill the dwarves before freeing Nere.

Also, I thinned them out by shoving 4 off ledges. The wandering archer is one of those.
Lured them to the ledge using minor illusion cantrip and then threw them off.

[Cy]

Originally posted by Pathetic:

Ally with the Elder who's angry Nere hasnt paid back his massive debt of gold. Then, ungroup your party and send the spell casters/ranged attacks up a ladder nearby (theres one enemy there but you can push them). Then make sure you never put yourself in a position where you can pushed into lava. Nere died in two turns for me and middle difficulty

I ended up doing this and it cut the enemies down by half and made the fight so much more manageable. Thanks.

[doublejesus]

Originally posted by ZeUwUbs:

Well, you can also go with the nuclear option. Talk to the rebels and agree to work with them, betray them when you free Nere, and then cause as much 'friendly fire' incidents as you can...

Helped me to be able to save the slaves over there and manage to pass the encounter with only cantrips and no fireballs :P

Rofl I just told em he wasn't taking the slaves and after seeing my previous display of gratuitous violence he obliged.

[Braderz_12]

Kill the guards first then release Nere lol

This thread is kinda funny since Nere died in about 1 or 2 turns for me.

[mrmike_49]

Originally posted by quixoticaxis:

Wait till he dies of poisoning and do not fight him. Also an option.

Yep. just go CAMP, and when you return, Nere is dead1

[GM Morgan]

I found my way around to the ledge above them through another blocked passage. The cultists were still grouped up waiting for me to blow the barrel. So I rained spells down on them like a 4th of July display until they stopped moving.