There is no way to protect Halsin in portal

[Anomalous Alien]

Even using alchemists fire, fire spells and hypnosis doesn't work. Not enjoying. Far too difficult and time consuming. I'm done.

[Anomalous Alien]

Originally posted by Shadk:

me and my friend killed so many of them that the looting at the end of those few rounds was a pain... but i guess thats what you get from wizard, monk, karlach and shadowheart... fireball goes brrrrr

Good for you. I'm playing solo.

[Nelartux]

Also just use turn undead with a cleric as soon as they come too close, it will force all undeads to flee as long as you don't hit them.

[Insanity Factor]

When in doubt, more Fireballs! In my fight I had respecced Shadowheart into a cleric with Light domain, so she gets Fireball in her repertoire as well. Fireballs cast with higher level spell slot get kind of silly for blowing up that encounter.

That fight definitely has sense of desperation with the massive amounts of enemies spawning, but that also means they're incredibly weak to aoe damage. My personal group consisted of Warlock (main), Shadowheart as cleric, Gale and Karlach. Warlock Eldritch blast with the knock back evocation (or whatever they're called) helps push back 2-3 enemies every turn, kept him and Karlach on guard duty on the ramp leading to the portal while Shadow and Gale lobbed fireballs like maniacs. Shadow also did her Channel Divinity thing once or twice, and I think I summoned an earth elemental with Gale for added meat shieldage.

This was on balanced, so your mileage may vary a lot if you're playing on tactician ofc.

[Kinetika]

couple of fireball and cloudkill scrolls did the job for me :)

[♘NotIrish♘]

me and my friend are running a duo game on hardest game mode, we dont have companions in our party, we managed it by creating a wall of boxes/crates along one side of the portal and spread firewine barrels around the floor where they all spawn, 2nd round in we drank speed potions to give us more actions, my monk dealt with anyone that come close, and his warlock/sorc did aoe cc with fireballs and other big hitters and we managed to do it after a couple times of trying :)

[Rapel]

didnt read thread
made it solo with invisibility potion, fire wall and arrow of darkness near the portal

[Morgan]

Originally posted by Smythely 🏳️‍🌈:

Even using alchemists fire, fire spells and hypnosis doesn't work. Not enjoying. Far too difficult and time consuming. I'm done.

Casting darkness on the portal stops all ranged attacks. Then spirit guardians where the enemies have to climb up. It took a grand total of one hit for me with those tactics on normal.

[Daliena]

Originally posted by Smythely 🏳️‍🌈:

Originally posted by Shadk:

me and my friend killed so many of them that the looting at the end of those few rounds was a pain... but i guess thats what you get from wizard, monk, karlach and shadowheart... fireball goes brrrrr

Good for you. I'm playing solo.

Hold up. Are you playing solo, or with the NPC team? Because if you're literally solo, just your character, then uhhh.. There's your problem, I wager.

And if you have the NPC team but you're too low-level to learn Wall of Fire, a 4th-level spell (so Gale can learn it at level 7), have you considered.. I don't know.. Leveling up and returning to that encounter later? Not like you have to do it nownownow.

I cleared it fairly easily on the middle difficulty with Gale as the MVP using Ice Storm (another 4th-level spell), and Shadowheart to whomp anything that got close with Spirit Guardians.

My paladin was mostly just an armored back-up dancer, and Astarion (who I'd forgotten in the party because I had something or other to do with him just prior and hadn't remembered to swap back out) barely did anything.

[Dont be Silly Wrap your Willy]

If there would be 'no way' noone would have completed that quest , no ?

Took me 3 tries on Tactician. Because enemies try to rush portal and you cant heal the portal you need to not let melee enemies to reach it, and ranged enemies to reach the range there they can shoot at it. Various AoE spells help a lot, fire deals massive damage to them. There is also "wall" spell to simply not let them reach the portal.

[Zaris]

I did it on tactician after 2-3 tries with fighter, barb, light cleric and sorc. One fighter in the south, cleric with other fighter in the north and spamming fireballs and try to focus the archers but after reading the thread this is imho the best approach:

Originally posted by Morgan:

Casting darkness on the portal stops all ranged attacks. Then spirit guardians where the enemies have to climb up. It took a grand total of one hit for me with those tactics on normal.

[Volp1n3]

By far one of the best and most satisfying fights in whole game. Done that on the hardest difficulty with my wife, having party of sorc, ranger, rouge and barbarian.
The easiest way we have done that was by blocking the path for all the undead warriors coming down the road using spells that block movement (like Evards black tentacles, plant growth, spike growth etc.) and repel undead on shadows, that came from the lake. Later on it was just a matter of correct usage of aoe spells, like ice storm, fireball, hordebreaker and couple of granades. Took us like 20 minutes to get over with it, but DAMN that was satisfying. Especially that we achieved it with not one blow to the portal.

[0ddity]

Skill issue. Git gud.

[Cthulhu]

whaat? i used 10 grease bottles, 3 alchool barrels some fire spells/arrow in the end and they where mostly prone and with low hp, then when the crows and shadows spawned i make them on fire and the some other melee slashing and arrow throwing and i did it in like 5 turns, first try, balanced
edit P.S.: oh yes! Darkness arrow in the portal help a lot too!

[Dragon Master]

Use Shadowheart. Use Spirit Guardians first turn and have her near the portal. Then use turn undead when the swarms come.

[WaterMelwin]

aoe spells baby