Phase spider battle: An example of 1 dev gone way, way, way too far.

[oddeyedl]

Talk about a battle where absolutely every single enemy is placed at the worst possible spot for the player. Phasing around posioning you and phasing away. Absolutely never missing and driving you insane dropped my group members 9 times. All for 10 xp per kill. A bit too little exp for what the encounter was absolute fail in the devs side as you rate the experience awards for the ENCOUNTER as well. These enemies were PERFECTLY placed and the terrain was a HUGE issue.

NO consideration for any of that in that fight. Way way too punitive. ONLY if you approach it at the high ground on the other end of the cavern does this encounter not drive you insane but you have to be aware you can approach from that side.

10 xp for that folks yep thats a dm id be a player for.

"Hey you fought these phase spiders that phased around and wiped the whole group heres 10 xp per kill."

That would be my last session even at these truncated rates the game gives.

[navigator4223]

It's a two turn battle at most, what are you talking about?

[Targaryen22]

I had less then zero issues with this fight. Maybe try a different, more effective less garbo strategy then whatever one you were currently employing. My party of shadowheart, karlach, my pc druid wildshape shifter and wyll had the phase queen dead very quickly. The smaller ones even easier. Believe it took like 4 turns max

[Zackerie]

you can get a round on the spider if you position right, seems like you were coming in from the wrong angle

[jcw163]

It's a good fight

[avil]

I had spider stuck in some CC spell that I don't even remember now. I don't think you approached the fight seriously.

[LArc7thHeaven]

They limit xp drop in act 1 BUT gives them like candy in act 2-3

[Blackwolfe]

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

They limit xp drop in act 1 BUT gives them like candy in act 2-3

I dunno, I did everything in Act 1 and now my entire party is lvl 7. Just about to move into act 2 (dunno if there is any difference if moving into act 2 from mountain pass or grymforge, might try both)

[Malthar]

take a warlock and oneshot it, whats the issue

[LArc7thHeaven]

Originally posted by Blackwolfe:

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

They limit xp drop in act 1 BUT gives them like candy in act 2-3

I dunno, I did everything in Act 1 and now my entire party is lvl 7. Just about to move into act 2 (dunno if there is any difference if moving into act 2 from mountain pass or grymforge, might try both)

In the first act at least until the gith patrol xp is hard to procure and you're usually maxed at lvl 4 or 5 if you're doing enough hence why so many complaints about gith patrol fight

[pascal.difolco]

You can kill most small spiders just by sneak attacks from above while staying unspotted (move shoot get back outside their vision), then for the big one it runs towards your party using usually the "web bridges" that you can destroy with 1 hit from anything, make her fall for 40 damage, and you can do it 2 times at least, then finish her off

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Blackwolfe:

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

They limit xp drop in act 1 BUT gives them like candy in act 2-3

I dunno, I did everything in Act 1 and now my entire party is lvl 7. Just about to move into act 2 (dunno if there is any difference if moving into act 2 from mountain pass or grymforge, might try both)

there is. Grymforge can lock you into a permanent cutscene bug.
Also you missou 2 character story progressions and an encounter that will have some material for a possible later main quest event.

[Dakka,Dakka,Dakka]

Very easy fight once you figure out the mechanics of the fight, you can have your mage sit near the middle and cast a fire cantrip on the web whenever the big spider sits on a web to take a massive chunk out of her health while the rest of your party protects him from the little ones.

I think this is the only boss fight IN THE GAME that you could probably do with a solo character if you position well because your damage doesn't matter, the fall damage from the spider falling off the burning web will do a massive amount of damage.

[Ruffio]

Imho, protection from poison make the fight a non issue.

[Blackwolfe]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Originally posted by Blackwolfe:

I dunno, I did everything in Act 1 and now my entire party is lvl 7. Just about to move into act 2 (dunno if there is any difference if moving into act 2 from mountain pass or grymforge, might try both)

there is. Grymforge can lock you into a permanent cutscene bug.
Also you missou 2 character story progressions and an encounter that will have some material for a possible later main quest event.

I cleared all of grymforge, including the forge and the grym fight, did all the stuff in mountain pass with lae'zel in my party and ended up killing every single gith in there after convincing lae'zel to be on my side + the event in the camp meeting voosh). Literally the only things I haven't done is to actually enter act 2.

So, you are saying that depending on if I take the elevator to act 2 or if I move from mountain pass into act 2 I might have different outcomes?

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

In the first act at least until the gith patrol xp is hard to procure and you're usually maxed at lvl 4 or 5 if you're doing enough hence why so many complaints about gith patrol fight

Assuming you actually fight the patrol, which I did not since I had Lae'zel with me. No fighting needed. As far as I understand, act 2 doesn't actually start until you enter the shadow-cursed lands.

[Sprocket]

just surprised attack the big one on a bridge and drop it to floor for a good head start