Cazador Szarr Boss Fight

[F3ral H0und]

So I was going into this fight with all my fantasy knowledge completely understanding fighting a vampire lord would be very difficult, but I have zero clue as to how you can beat this bastard as the Lvl 11 party I currently have.

Things I've done:
-Because of the misty-evasion he does every turn, you can't directly hurt him until after the ritual is complete, so going straight after Cazador will just get you slaughtered by his minions.
-I tried killing one of the spawn before the ritual was complete, but they have so much resistance that I wasted 2 turns killing one with 2 characters, and yet nothing happened after I killed it (probably because they die after the ritual anyways, so I probably 'sped up' the ritual).
-Yes I attempted the good ol' push the boss off the ledge cheese, but never got the chance because of Cazador's mist transformation.
-The coffin in the centre has a key in it, but I have no clue what its for, but I'm open to the fact that it might be important for the fight.
-Tried spamming summons and familiars, but Cazador targets my party members anyways and the enemy minions still overrun us pretty easily.

If anyone who has beaten Cazador could shed some light on what they did or how they managed to defeat him for us lowly mortals who can't lay a finger on him, I'll be leaving this discussion here.

[Slapstick]

"Shed some light on how to beat him" lol... Yeah, I used Daylight spell to keep him out of mist form and in a lot of pain. Wasn't a particularly difficult fight with him in daylight all the time.

[Abisha]

if you have cleric you can use Summon weapons to block the buff's he get
also if you have the vampy with you, you can free him so it's again a 4 man fight.

AOE is king in this battle especially Light Pillar

[I'm A Distraction!]

He was an issue..?

My paladin with lathandar's blood basically merked him on turn 2. It was faster to kill him than it was to free Astarion, so I did that. Maybe that mist form was bugged or whatever, because I noticed a few bugs creeping into my playthrough by that point. Or maybe the daylight from the mace kept him from escaping?

Then again, paladins are pretty busted.

Publicado originalmente por Slapstick:

"Shed some light on how to beat him" lol... Yeah, I used Daylight spell to keep him out of mist form and in a lot of pain. Wasn't a particularly difficult fight with him in daylight all the time.

Ah, gotta love that weapon you get at the start of Act 2 that apparently just makes you god against half the bosses and you'll never replace because no other 1-hand comes close, lol.

[Gaius]

Spoiler, obviously


Cazador has those sacrificial lamb NPCs and becomes stronger for each one - Astarion too - but you can park a character in the mark close to them and that will redirect the buff to that character. You should "steal" his buffs this way while you move in and free Astarion and kill the other adds. Just after that focus on Cazador, enjoying those buffs. If he ascends it's prettty much GG, gotta avoid it.

[Mr Fred]

Daylight in the middle of the room then one round it like everything else in the game... every single fight is trivial if you have at least a half decent team.

[Abisha]

Publicado originalmente por I'm A Distraction!:

He was an issue..?

My paladin with lathandar's blood basically merked him on turn 2. It was faster to kill him than it was to free Astarion, so I did that. Maybe that mist form was bugged or whatever, because I noticed a few bugs creeping into my playthrough by that point. Or maybe the daylight from the mace kept him from escaping?

Then again, paladins are pretty busted.

Publicado originalmente por Slapstick:

"Shed some light on how to beat him" lol... Yeah, I used Daylight spell to keep him out of mist form and in a lot of pain. Wasn't a particularly difficult fight with him in daylight all the time.

Ah, gotta love that weapon you get at the start of Act 2 that apparently just makes you god against half the bosses and you'll never replace because no other 1-hand comes close, lol.

people playing Paladin should be forbidden to post it's absolute OP as F
it shows their have been no beta testing

[Darkzealot]

Gravity did it for me , he kinda got too close to an edge and an Arrow of Roaring Thunder gave him a lil nudge :D

[Gaius]

Publicado originalmente por Darkzealot:

Gravity did it for me , he kinda got too close to an edge and an Arrow of Roaring Thunder gave him a lil nudge :D

Unfortunatelly that would be a reload for me, not into wasting drops from a late game boss fight :P

[Revan619]

Cast sunlight.

Publicado originalmente por Abisha:

Publicado originalmente por I'm A Distraction!:

He was an issue..?

My paladin with lathandar's blood basically merked him on turn 2. It was faster to kill him than it was to free Astarion, so I did that. Maybe that mist form was bugged or whatever, because I noticed a few bugs creeping into my playthrough by that point. Or maybe the daylight from the mace kept him from escaping?

Then again, paladins are pretty busted.



Ah, gotta love that weapon you get at the start of Act 2 that apparently just makes you god against half the bosses and you'll never replace because no other 1-hand comes close, lol.

people playing Paladin should be forbidden to post it's absolute OP as F
it shows their have been no beta testing

People whom complain about Paladin's do not know how to make builds. Casters are out here casting 4-5 spells a turn each doing 600+

[HozzMidnight]

Have a cleric and use daylight. This fight is difficult without one. Also smoke the skeleton mage dude first.

[I'm A Distraction!]

Publicado originalmente por Abisha:

Publicado originalmente por I'm A Distraction!:

He was an issue..?

My paladin with lathandar's blood basically merked him on turn 2. It was faster to kill him than it was to free Astarion, so I did that. Maybe that mist form was bugged or whatever, because I noticed a few bugs creeping into my playthrough by that point. Or maybe the daylight from the mace kept him from escaping?

Then again, paladins are pretty busted.



Ah, gotta love that weapon you get at the start of Act 2 that apparently just makes you god against half the bosses and you'll never replace because no other 1-hand comes close, lol.

people playing Paladin should be forbidden to post it's absolute OP as F
it shows their have been no beta testing

Haste giving an entire extra action's worth of attacks per turn is probably a bigger culprit of balance borking (Ler'zel with six attacks and GWM is hilarious watching her just demolish entire flanks in one turn).

[Gaius]

Publicado originalmente por I'm A Distraction!:

Publicado originalmente por Abisha:

people playing Paladin should be forbidden to post it's absolute OP as F
it shows their have been no beta testing

Haste giving an entire extra action's worth of attacks per turn is probably a bigger culprit of balance borking (Ler'zel with six attacks and GWM is hilarious watching her just demolish entire flanks in one turn).

That's why I also rock a Sorcerer. Twinned casted haste is just bonkers.

[Wiegs]

Try flashing him. Not in the kinky way, in the shiny sunlight eye melting way. That and holy water maybe.

[Vegor]

So I’ve taken the mode of not prestaging and fighting in bg3 as Larian intended. Which normally is at a disadvantage in this game all clumped up in a suboptimal spot. This is on Tactician so other difficulties may play out different.

First, each character drank a speed potion, then nuke any of the vampire spawn he has suspended. Focus fire on one. This prevents him ascending. No more timer. After one is gone you don’t have to destroy any others.

Next, take out chatterteeth. Even if you’ll take some hits from the other minions. Then the bats as they die quick but do decent damage. Then the ghouls due to the nausea. Then
the wolves. And finally Cazador.

No one pushed into the chasm. Three member core party the whole time as Astarion was trapped.

My party has a spellcasting Bard, Karlach, Shadowheart and some summons. Quoth the raven. Two ice mephits. A mummy. A ghoul that’s controllable. Four Danse macabre uncontrollable ghouls. The little brain thing. And a fire elemental. The minions did distract some of the enemies as well. All characters have the Alert feat so I was at the top of the initiative roster except Cazador himself.

Counterspell helped with chatterteeths first cast of fear. Then he died.

I had to be careful with turn undead since I had so many myself but got a couple good hits.

At the end of the fight I had only the party and the brain thing left.