Hardest fight in the game? (spoilers)

[Grumpy Old Guy]

What, in your opinion, was the hardest fight in the game and why?

So far, on tactician, I think the hardest fight I've seen was trying to off Gortash at the Coronation just because of the sheer number of steel watchers you have to deal with. Still doable, but definitely one of the harder fights.

[Lily]

Publicado originalmente por Scheneighnay:

Publicado originalmente por Lily:

The Harpy fight at the beach at the very start of the game. No other fight gave me nearly as much problems as their damn Lure song. Murkal? Easy. Brain? A bit tough, but easy with my normal team comp. Ansur? Chump. Orin? Cake walk. But those DAMN HARPIES! lol

That was thankfully easy for me because I'm running an archfey warlock.

I just cast calm emotions on my party, had Shadowheart cast silence to make a safe bubble, and Astarian kept breaking their concentration.

Oh, for more situations its a dice roll. This is one of the first fights I do before I long rest. Basically i want to do the crypt, do the first attack on the grove, kill the bugbear, fight the harpies, fight the goblins hiding in the path to the grove, kill the owlbear, kill the goblin ambush and if I have enough resources Kill the Ogres or go kill the first little pack of gnolls before I take a long rest.

Harpies are so early in that run and the only fight of those that can go horribly wrong and I don't want to be spending more than 2 second level spell slots if I can help it and I only want to do 1 short rest at this point so that fight tests my patience.

[Hex]

Publicado originalmente por Josh:

Publicado originalmente por Hex:

Do Grym on tact without using the hammer. It was fun.

I killed Grym in 2 turns on tactician yesterday without using the hammer. It's not that hard if you're prepared.

No, no you didn't.

[Shadow♥]

For me House of hope was hardest but only because I went and rescued Hope too so you got a big battle there. thankfully Raphaels bath water heals and restores all spells like a long rest so that was nice. I was able to talk the big guy into fighting with me but he honestly does not do much damage to Raphael in the fight which I thought was weird since he beat my butt earlier in game. LOL but I did get the big guys crossbow which is nice prior to house of hope.

[Scheneighnay]

Publicado originalmente por Artowa:

the titan and the other steel watch in the foundery

Steel watch are weak to electricity, have Gale cast chain lightning on them when they're near eachother and you should have them chain detonate

[stakanctl]

The fights in this game are inadequately easy on the balanced difficulty. The hardest encounter for me was Raphael's enemy in Gauntlet of Shar. I took the guy down in 2 attacks within a single turn, but his party... Those dudes are just zerg rushing giving the party no chances. So I had to complete this fight with paladin MC, Karlach, Laezel, and Shadowheart lol.

[Chaosolous]

That white frog in the corner of that pond by the Hag’s house.

[45ay3asdasd]

no fights are hard in act 3, at that level the party is so overpowered that you are literally unkillable unless you choose to add flare by fighting them during the wrong moments and stuff like that

[Moonbane]

You are not supposed to fight Gortash and the steel guard at once.

[Userfriendly]

Publicado originalmente por Hex:

Do Grym on tact without using the hammer. It was fun.

One turn, two characters.

Had a member up at the top of the elevator. Eldridge knight with a bound light hammer (my Thor build). 2 attack, action surge; and haste. Thor did 408/450 damage. Karlach just finished him off with her maul

I’m curious if a few lucky roles and a crit or two might be able to solo him lol

[Userfriendly]

Publicado originalmente por Kriss Hietala:

Ansur

He spanked my Thor build and tempest cleric hard because they were built around lightning damage lol

[Yaldabaoth]

House of Grief was kinda annoying, had to reload twice. Final boss had to reload because it blew away the platforms in melee range on the first turn and my ranged dmg was not enough. Raphael very easy (compelled to duel someone when you are auto-blind by the Lathander mace is very difficult even for one of his caliber). But the hardest fight? The goblins at the windmill.

[Thadeus]

Every major boss fight in the game has a gimmick. If you just try to brute force something, you will likely get rekt, but if you do the gimmick, the fight will be easy as ♥♥♥♥.

Goblin bosses. Kill each of them separately. Razglin may be an issue because of his many adds, but this can be solved by using a stealth character with a bow to snipe his adds from the wooden beams above the throne room, until he's alone, and then he's a joke.

The Hag. Use an invisibility potion to go all the way around and use the lever that releases Mayrina's cage. Use Magic Missile or any damaging spell that can be cast at multiple targets, because The Hag's mirror images have 1 HP, so they are really vulnerable to those things. When she turns into Mayrina to trick you, note that the real Mayrina is level 1, while the Hag is level 5, so go after the level 5.

Balthazar. I dunno, just faceroll him. He was never a problem.

Ketheric Thorm's antourage. Don't fight them. Go outside the castle, to the left, climb up the vine, and jump on the platforms. You will reach Ketheric Thorm himself, and he's a joke in his human form.

Ketheric Thorm as Apostle of Death. Rush to Nightsong, release her, cast Bless on her, and now kill that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying Mindflayer while she solos the boss. Stay off the platform and don't go up to attack him until he's almost dead. Let Nightsong handle him.

[Baldurs_Gate_2]

Those damn house of hope mephits with eldritch blast. Was surprised they pushed me over the edge xd

[Userfriendly]

Publicado originalmente por Thadeus:

Every major boss fight in the game has a gimmick. If you just try to brute force something, you will likely get rekt, but if you do the gimmick, the fight will be easy as ♥♥♥♥.

Goblin bosses. Kill each of them separately. Razglin may be an issue because of his many adds, but this can be solved by using a stealth character with a bow to snipe his adds from the wooden beams above the throne room, until he's alone, and then he's a joke.

The Hag. Use an invisibility potion to go all the way around and use the lever that releases Mayrina's cage. Use Magic Missile or any damaging spell that can be cast at multiple targets, because The Hag's mirror images have 1 HP, so they are really vulnerable to those things. When she turns into Mayrina to trick you, note that the real Mayrina is level 1, while the Hag is level 5, so go after the level 5.

Balthazar. I dunno, just faceroll him. He was never a problem.

Ketheric Thorm's antourage. Don't fight them. Go outside the castle, to the left, climb up the vine, and jump on the platforms. You will reach Ketheric Thorm himself, and he's a joke in his human form.

Ketheric Thorm as Apostle of Death. Rush to Nightsong, release her, cast Bless on her, and now kill that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying Mindflayer while she solos the boss. Stay off the platform and don't go up to attack him until he's almost dead. Let Nightsong handle him.

That mindflayer killed himself when he attacked my tempest cleric. The lightning reaction knocked him back and down into abyss he fell lol

You can also track the hag if you wet her. (I like lightning) but she stays wet when she attempts to hide behind her illusions

[Kraehe]

On normal the hardest fight for me (and the only one i had to reload twice) was Raphael.

Also asking Vlaakith why she can't kill the being in the prisma herself was also tough (not to say impossible :P )