Honour mode tips - Myrkul boss.

[Nox]

Welp I just got my 1st Honour wipe on Myrkul boss. The big bone feller with scythe.

Shadowheart, Laezel BM, PC oathbreaker dark urge slayer and Astarion assassin.

Yeah party comp isnt ideal so Im already thinking of a new one on my next try that would cover everything. (Bard PC, Abjuration Gale, BM Laezel or Karlach, Shadowheart Cleric or Wyll....tho probably Shart).

Anyways I would like to ask for tips.

I may be unlucky but Aylinn, good god even for a "child of a goddess" is crap. She was dominated by mind flayer most of the fight.

Should I kill the minions before getting to Myrkul phase, even when I killed mind flayer and the rest I just get overwhelmed by the amount of bonemen that spawn.

The bone chill aura and Myrkul damage also screw me over. I tried using Warden of Vitality and although it did help rezzing downed members it wasnt enough.

[RayIgnis]

A single spell of Darkness/Fog is huge in this fight. Myrkul cant drain his bonemen and cant use any ranged attack cause his blinded.... even thought the guy got no eyes lol.

[pirate135246]

send in an invisible scratch to help Aylin right at the beginning, and insta focus the mindflayer

[Nox]

Originally posted by RayIgnis:

A single spell of Darkness/Fog is huge in this fight. Myrkul cant drain his bonemen and cant use any ranged attack cause his blinded.... even thought the guy got no eyes lol.

Oh you gotta be kidding.

I was lolth sworn too so I had darkness always ready...BRUH.

Hunger of Hadar could be even better do right?

[RayIgnis]

Originally posted by BananaChumpus:

Originally posted by RayIgnis:

A single spell of Darkness/Fog is huge in this fight. Myrkul cant drain his bonemen and cant use any ranged attack cause his blinded.... even thought the guy got no eyes lol.

Oh you gotta be kidding.

I was lolth sworn too so I had darkness always ready...BRUH.

Hunger of Hadar could be even better do right?

Yup, you can also throw in some Wall of fire too for some extra dps. Myrkul might use his AoE sucking abilities every few turn so watch out he does not pull you into your own spell AoE. But since his blinded he cant do attack of opportunity, so you can go melee then get back out.

[Kittybass]

I did it by using as many summons as I could. I also sent Scratch in invisible, ready to free Dame on the first turn, and focused on the Mindflayer . Take it out first, otherwise it will cause all sorts of problems.

I am trying to think who I had in my party. I was a Vengeance paladin, I think I had Astarion, Storm Cleric Shadowheart and Gale. The summons took a lot of the heat off me by Ketheric targeting them instead of me. I did have Darkness ready in case things went wrong but I didn't use it in the end. I had Gale deal with the necromites. I was a bit nervous about doing this fight, but thankfully it worked out more or less the way I had planned. The only one who took a severe beating was Astarion.

[Captain HIMARS]

Hunger of Hadar partially works on Honor mode - he does not attack with ranged attacks but still heals.
In order to beat Myrkul on Honor mode one needs:
1. Warlock - start with casting hunger of Hadar immediately after Ketheric is dead and also spam eldritch blast on acolytes (preferably with potion of speed)
2. Mage with AoE spells, magic missiles and potion of speed - spam magic missiles and fireball on Myrkul, help others to deal with acolytes with other aoe spells.
3. Paladin with all spell slots to spam radiant smites on Myrkul by coming to the edge of Hadar, attacking and then retreating.
4. Cleric - heal, mass heal, spirit guardians on acolytes, bolt of radiance on Myrkul.

No fighters or archers needed in this fight.
Make sure to grab scrolls of misty step or teleportation to quickly save Nightsong with cleric.

[EldritchBlast]

Open hand monk stun punch and kick the crap out of that bugger, paladin smites, stacks of radiant orbs, and darkness. I had him dead in 2 turns.
Just make sure to clobber mind flayer before he controls Aylin.

[Czulu]

I think that easiest way is to get all scrolls of disintegrations in act 2 sell (there is 3-4 in merchants plus one to be fund in some loot), give your mages haste and just spam it while ignoring adds. This alone should bring him down to less than 100hp in 1 turn, which can be than tackled by whatever other means you have in next one. I have also observed that if you dont go onto the platform where Ketheric stands he will not chase anybody so he can be killed by cantrips and arrows to save spells befor phase 2. So just clear everything befor you kill Ketheric, than kill him from safe distance, then go to phase 2.

[felmari]

what did me wonders was disarm you only have to do it once he will not rearm ever. i also had a character with a weapon(doom hammer in my case though not sure if there are any others) that has bone chilled on hit thus you can ignore the skellies that try to heal him.

[Finwaell]

just kill the mind flayer lol

aylin did a solid amount of damage for me, since he was busy attacking and doing nothing to my party. :D

your party comp is good, that's not the issue. although I would take more beef instead of astarion (take one of the druids or karlach) and I wouldn't go with pala but with wizard to actually have some solid damage

[Brian_the_Brute]

Lots of good advice here already stated. Also helps to have telekinesis to pull a downed paladin (with bone chill) off the ledge to be able to heal them and throw them back in the fight.

[DeMasked]

Originally posted by Finwaell:

just kill the mind flayer lol

aylin did a solid amount of damage for me, since he was busy attacking and doing nothing to my party. :D

your party comp is good, that's not the issue. although I would take more beef instead of astarion (take one of the druids or karlach) and I wouldn't go with pala but with wizard to actually have some solid damage

Everyone this person keeps reviving old threads.

Please report this person and the thread (which isn't as old as other examples) and move on.

[Kappa]

I did the fight with a similar team on my first honour run. Forgot about myrkul resistances ( though it also had bludgeoning ) and ended up taking a lot of time to kill it, but still with no issues.

Instead of the oathbreaker our party had a circle of moon Druid.

The Druid tanked with warding bond while the cleric kept getting the boss reaction. Rogue and bm on boss and adds.

Cleric spells were enough but even with less, because how broken are healing potions, it would have been easy no matter what.

I suggest you to properly build your cleric and frontline, keeping one dedicated character on adds preventing myrkul from healing ( if you can’t manage swaps ).

Not a hard fight, and you can tweak your characters if you think their builds are not optimal ( never had any issues though, but I know this might help ).

[buyme1]

No one seems to point out that Myrkul is is resistant to all cold and Hunger of Hadar does half its damage from cold so it is nor a particularly optimal choice to use in that fight. It is not resistant to acid Hunger of Hadar does at least some damage but you definitely do not want to depend on it for your main damage attack in that fight.

[Super Cosmic Space Magnet]

A worthy place for an honour run to end - there's no shame in it! Well done for getting so far.

Kill all the ads before defeating Omniman - it's much more manageable at that point, especially since all he does is stand on the platform shouting at you until you engage in melee.

As for Myrkul itself, he's a tanky cookie! Disarm effects are hilarious since it means he can't do his big scythe attack. Having a Paladin is also a big help, since busting out all their Divine Smites will chunk him pretty effectively.

He is also a skeleton, so if you're going to melee him make sure you use blunt weapons like hammers/maces.