What is the hardest fight in the game?

[KalkiKrosah]

Probably was asked before but figured I would bring it up again. What fights stand out?

[Iso Koala]

Some fights in Chapter 1, depending on where you go first etc. For me the battle against the Githyankis on near the broken bridge was 100% impossible when I first went there. Gnoll battle in top right corner of the map was also very hard.

From chapter 2 onwards, everything is easy even on highest difficulty, if you know how DnD builds work. And by knowing I dont mean reading online guides, but that you have played some DnD games in the past like BG1+2.

[Manslayer]

Originally posted by Slav Mcgopnik:

Originally posted by ♂PUDGUS♂:

Did... did you read the link you posted? It literally says there in your link that globe does not work like it does in the game.
In 5e it blocks spells under a certain level. In game it makes you invulnerable to e v e r y t h i n g.

You also can’t shove people or otherwise push them around in tabletop 5e, which makes getting some out from under the globe much harder.

You quite literally can shove and grapple in tabletop 5e. There is literally any entire set of rules for it.

[attiladafun]

I gave the game a bad review when I first played because I tried to play the game like a straight dnd crpg and got killed right away. Then I remembered its a Larian game and used all of their non crpg standard tricks for fights and it was a breeze.
Throwing off cliffs, explosions, potions and effects are too powerful vs a 1d6 weapon.

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by Suiho:

The battle with Commander Zhalk as Shadowheart (MC) if your goal is kill him. Because you have Shadowheart+Lae'Zel+Us only. And you have crap equipment, not many skills and crap character's parameters. The difficulty of other battles is reduced by equipment which you can buy or loot, three companions and many skills or features which every character have.

I got a massive tip for that fight. Swap out the melee heal spell on Shadowheart with Command. Then have her Command Zhalk to drop his sword. Now he can only punch the mind flayer!

Also, looking up you can see these postule looking things hanging from the ceiling. If you shoot them they drop down and cover the floor in acid. Acid lowers enemy defenses and is flammable! And if you drop those explosive cannisters at their feet you can explode those for extra damage! And there's fires you can dip your crossbows into for extra damages. The fight is much easier if you make use of the environment to circumvent how weak you are that early.

[Connor]

havent seen anyone say it yet but the damn mud mephits and tree ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ can be an obnoxious fight in the swamp

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Larian is absolute ♥♥♥♥ at designing combat and game mechanics.

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by Connor:

havent seen anyone say it yet but the damn mud mephits and tree ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ can be an obnoxious fight in the swamp

If you examine them you will see that the woad guys are weak to fire. And you only need to kill the main mud mephit, the summoned ones you can ignore. And the summons are a different shade, they are darker than the parent mephit. Only tough part is where you start the fight in the water and stuff.

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by Iso Koala:

Some fights in Chapter 1, depending on where you go first etc. For me the battle against the Githyankis on near the broken bridge was 100% impossible when I first went there. Gnoll battle in top right corner of the map was also very hard.

From chapter 2 onwards, everything is easy even on highest difficulty, if you know how DnD builds work. And by knowing I dont mean reading online guides, but that you have played some DnD games in the past like BG1+2.

The Githyanki fight is one of those "level check" fights. Level 5 is the level when fighters get to attack twice, so it's difficult to fight at level 4 and impossible level 3 and under. It's to keep you from getting to the Highlands too early in the story. It's there to keep you from racing through act 1 too early.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Level 4 is tough but not if you summon the ogres.

[Chroniver]

Probably the last fight in the game if you kill everything.

Though I can't really judge as I jacked up the difficulty with mods.

[seeker1]

Personally, I have heard - though I have not chosen to experience it - that would be attacking Gortash at his coronation.

Spoilers?

You will face not just him and a handful of guards, but a buttload of guards, and a hostile (controlled) Duke Ravengard (who apparently cannot be KOd), and a whole bunch of Steel Watchers. All at once.

From what I've heard - again never tried it - if you KO Ravengard at this fight, he just bursts into flames and dies, he cannot be saved.

[Lashane The Simp of Mimi]

Act 3: Trying to get back to Wyrm's Crossing without crashing to main menu.

[Drago无n]

Orin in act 3

[attiladafun]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Cassandra:

Larian is absolute ♥♥♥♥ at designing combat and game mechanics.

That's why I'm glad they were constrained by 5e rules instead of doing whatever they wanted to do.

[Lashane The Simp of Mimi]

Originally posted by .Shiifuu:

VICONIA, FAR THE MOST HARDEST. ( So much enemies asf), hard in any difficult

Regardless of the difficulty, so many enemies cannot support 4 little people, no matter how they are armed, built, there are an absurd number of clouds of blindness per turn. And even more difficult if you take Shadowheart (although I think after the romance scene in act 3 on the beach he stops being afraid of wolves)

all jokes aside on the wyrm's crossing major bug i ran into this is actually partially true. the damage output and the near constant darkness clouds make this boss fight pretty hard if you aren't prepared. this was one of only 3 occasions where my main Tav was down to her lowest HP ever in the entire game. i was shocked at how much damage the enemies do here. not even the fight against Cazador and The Devil himself Raph had enemies that hit this hard. Thankfully my main Tav on my 1st playthrough is half-illithid plus i have modded gear so it wasn't so over the top difficult but with half-cthulu powers or modded gear i imagine this is some insane challenge.