Balthazar fight is an abomination.

[mors_orcusjb]

Game is great. Truly awesome so far.

But this fight is complete bs. way to many minions he just summons out of his ass. he does way to much damage. (lvl 8 party). Larian does great but they do a truly terrible job of tuning their games sometimes. Divinity was the same way. Why they don't give you the chance for overlevelling (I went through the underforge and went back through the mountain pass) to do anything is beyond me. They're should be half as many minios in this fight and he should do half the damage he does. Terrible fight.

[Clown Queen of Rats]

*stares in gust of wind*

[mors_orcusjb]

Thanks for the help.

I will say the fact that everyone answer is to either kill him before getting to the nightsong or cheesing him in some way just proves my point though. The fight is insanely overtuned and needs fixed.

[Frostfeather]

You should be able to one-round him without any trouble. The fight is so easy it's kind of insulting, actually.

[mors_orcusjb]

also turn undead does nearly nothing unless they all congregate around the cleric. assuming you dont do some cheese and move your party down to the platform like normal you get stuff at the edge and cant move from 1-2 undead. the fight is simple garbage that wasnt ever playtested.

I agree so much of the game is great... but this fight is pure garbage.

[mors_orcusjb]

Originally posted by night4:

You should be able to one-round him without any trouble. The fight is so easy it's kind of insulting, actually.

bet you never beat him or used a cheese. since 90 percent of the replies are all cheeses or to fight him early lol.

[Gingermonkey]

I killed him in the temple. Just plopped 2 oil barrels between him and his brother and lit him up.

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Pizza_Force:

Silence and turn undead are your friend.

Silence is so damn good. Best way to turn a hard encounter into a cakewalk,

Silence the mage(s), send in your barbarians, go bonk. GGEZ

[Frostfeather]

Originally posted by mors_orcusjb:

Originally posted by night4:

You should be able to one-round him without any trouble. The fight is so easy it's kind of insulting, actually.

bet you never beat him or used a cheese. since 90 percent of the replies are all cheeses or to fight him early lol.

Are you one of those people who think any form of strategy is "cheese"? I've found this to often be true with people who use the word.

[Janthis]

Originally posted by mors_orcusjb:

Originally posted by night4:

You should be able to one-round him without any trouble. The fight is so easy it's kind of insulting, actually.

bet you never beat him or used a cheese. since 90 percent of the replies are all cheeses or to fight him early lol.

Yeah, that's hilarious.

"The game is totally ez, skill issue if u disagree!"

"Ok, so how do I beat this encounter?"

"Use cheese and metagaming, duh!"

:P

[Frostfeather]

Originally posted by Johnny_B_80:

Originally posted by mors_orcusjb:

bet you never beat him or used a cheese. since 90 percent of the replies are all cheeses or to fight him early lol.

Yeah, that's hilarious.

"The game is totally ez, skill issue if u disagree!"

"Ok, so how do I beat this encounter?"

"Use cheese and metagaming, duh!"

:P

...they never asked how to beat the fight. They just whined about it.

And it's probably more an issue of a random self-imposed restriction vs "skill", though skill may be an issue too.

[Anzaman]

Have your melee units equip blunt weapons, since skeletons are weak to blunt. If you have Eldritch Knight, one nice and easy to access weapon is Charge-Bound Warhammer from Dammon at Last Light Inn.

Then you can silence the boss with eg. Cleric. He can't cast Cloudkill or any other powerful spells if he's prevented from casting.

[Hex]

I killed him by just.... yeeting him off the edge on turn 1. If you think that's cheese then the AI is always trying to cheese too so I have 0 qualms about it.

[lim3y]

This was by far my favorite fight so far (I'm only into early A3 now). I didn't know what was coming, and lost my bard and my barb to getting tossed off the side and focus fired. My cleric fell shortly after and my paladin finished off Balthazar with a smite and then managed to use every last cooldown, potion, and spell slot to systematically kill the rest of the adds.

I absolutely loved that fight, and I just now realize I screwed up so badly not using Turn Undead. Noob.

[Janthis]

Originally posted by night4:

Originally posted by Johnny_B_80:

Yeah, that's hilarious.

"The game is totally ez, skill issue if u disagree!"

"Ok, so how do I beat this encounter?"

"Use cheese and metagaming, duh!"

:P

...they never asked how to beat the fight. They just whined about it.

So what? Most answers were still like "position yourself during dialogue and shove him off the ledge" or "pile barrels around him." It was the same in DOS2 so this comes as no surprise.

[orthostatic]

I just clustered them up and had Shadowheart turn. Much wreckage was had.