just beat grym on tactician

[Greyrat]

♥♥♥♥ grym

[GrandMajora]

Just have Shadowheart spam Command Halt with her spell slots and whack away at him with blunt weapons.

Command is a 1st level spell, so by the time you get to this fight, you should have plenty of slots to cheese the fight.

[Greyrat]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Just have Shadowheart spam Command Halt with her spell slots and whack away at him with blunt weapons.

Command is a 1st level spell, so by the time you get to this fight, you should have plenty of slots to cheese the fight.

the thing is, Grym managed to have shadowheart dead very fast in almost all my attempts, even in the last one i still lost her and astarion and had to have them resurrected lol

I have a magic items mod that adds a ton of magic items, and the loot randomizer. i got really lucky early on and found a crossbow that does 1d6 of every damage type in the game. with astarion and lae'zel doing dps, i got grym down to 100 hitpoints really fast, and then i had lae'zel finish him :D

without me purposefully trying to build everyone to be as op as possible and astarion with dual crossbows that do insane damage, i dunno how i would have beaten him lmao

gale literally could do NOTHING to him, so i typically just had gale cast fog so lae'zel could wham on grym without punishment (and so i could avoid opportunity attacks and relocate astarion and gale)

those mephits were really damn annoying tho

[Greyrat]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Just have Shadowheart spam Command Halt with her spell slots and whack away at him with blunt weapons.

Command is a 1st level spell, so by the time you get to this fight, you should have plenty of slots to cheese the fight.

i read that having Lae'zel use backbreaker to keep him prone is a good way to beat him, but when i tried Lae'zel rolled so much damage i was like "eh i can probably kill him now without prone provided my rolls are good" so i just save-scummed astarions dps and lae'zels great weapon mastery bonus action until he died lmao

[Greyrat]

i've also done the entire underdark and pretty much everything in act 1 so im level 7, halfway to level 8. i feel like i was overleveled for the fight and it was still hard

[Greyrat]

important to mention: Lae'zel had a really good warhammer equipped!

[Greyrat]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Just have Shadowheart spam Command Halt with her spell slots and whack away at him with blunt weapons.

Command is a 1st level spell, so by the time you get to this fight, you should have plenty of slots to cheese the fight.

but when i end up having to do this on honor mode, i'll try this out. ty :)

[Tokogawa [GER]]

Are you using the Forge Hammer or not?

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Greyrat:

but when i end up having to do this on honor mode, i'll try this out. ty :)

You're welcome.

To clarify the strategy, have Shadowheart stand away from the battle and use every turn to cast Command Halt. Make sure he is standing in the lava when you do this.

Have somebody else stand next to the wheel that releases lava into the area, because it makes Grym more susceptible to damage.

Have your remaining two party members stand on either side of the grate where Grym emerges from and beat the tar out of him with Bludgeoning Weapons.

Ideally, the sturdy bastard won't even get an attack off. Assuming that Shadowheart doesn't miss one of her spells. But even if she does, your party members should be tanky enough at this point that they can take a hit from Grym without disrupting your cycle.

[Stotch]

Originally posted by Greyrat:

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Just have Shadowheart spam Command Halt with her spell slots and whack away at him with blunt weapons.

Command is a 1st level spell, so by the time you get to this fight, you should have plenty of slots to cheese the fight.

the thing is, Grym managed to have shadowheart dead very fast in almost all my attempts, even in the last one i still lost her and astarion and had to have them resurrected lol

I have a magic items mod that adds a ton of magic items, and the loot randomizer. i got really lucky early on and found a crossbow that does 1d6 of every damage type in the game. with astarion and lae'zel doing dps, i got grym down to 100 hitpoints really fast, and then i had lae'zel finish him :D

without me purposefully trying to build everyone to be as op as possible and astarion with dual crossbows that do insane damage, i dunno how i would have beaten him lmao

gale literally could do NOTHING to him, so i typically just had gale cast fog so lae'zel could wham on grym without punishment (and so i could avoid opportunity attacks and relocate astarion and gale)

those mephits were really damn annoying tho

just stand up on a ridge overlooking the forge, cast minor illusion in the middle, shoot arrow to start the forge. Drop hammer on dude when he goes for illusion. done. Gale is the man btw, theres never a point were Gale can "literally do nothing to.." anyone really.

[Draknalor]

Here, Video to defeat him in like 3 min without using hammer.

https://youtu.be/7rZnbgaduHI?si=Q16G5y12L6xBfa3H

If you need some advice for future playthroughs

[markdb92]

do you guys know you can one shot this boss with a druid even on honor mode by using owlbear form to jump on him when enlarge from above.

[Greyrat]

Originally posted by Tokogawa GER:

Are you using the Forge Hammer or not?

no, cuz i wanted to get the achievement for not using it

[Greyrat]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Greyrat:

but when i end up having to do this on honor mode, i'll try this out. ty :)

You're welcome.

To clarify the strategy, have Shadowheart stand away from the battle and use every turn to cast Command Halt. Make sure he is standing in the lava when you do this.

Have somebody else stand next to the wheel that releases lava into the area, because it makes Grym more susceptible to damage.

Have your remaining two party members stand on either side of the grate where Grym emerges from and beat the tar out of him with Bludgeoning Weapons.

Ideally, the sturdy bastard won't even get an attack off. Assuming that Shadowheart doesn't miss one of her spells. But even if she does, your party members should be tanky enough at this point that they can take a hit from Grym without disrupting your cycle.

this is a great strategy, tysm :D i was worried about fighting him on honor mode but now, not so much!

[Greyrat]

Originally posted by Stotch:

Originally posted by Greyrat:

the thing is, Grym managed to have shadowheart dead very fast in almost all my attempts, even in the last one i still lost her and astarion and had to have them resurrected lol

I have a magic items mod that adds a ton of magic items, and the loot randomizer. i got really lucky early on and found a crossbow that does 1d6 of every damage type in the game. with astarion and lae'zel doing dps, i got grym down to 100 hitpoints really fast, and then i had lae'zel finish him :D

without me purposefully trying to build everyone to be as op as possible and astarion with dual crossbows that do insane damage, i dunno how i would have beaten him lmao

gale literally could do NOTHING to him, so i typically just had gale cast fog so lae'zel could wham on grym without punishment (and so i could avoid opportunity attacks and relocate astarion and gale)

those mephits were really damn annoying tho

just stand up on a ridge overlooking the forge, cast minor illusion in the middle, shoot arrow to start the forge. Drop hammer on dude when he goes for illusion. done. Gale is the man btw, theres never a point were Gale can "literally do nothing to.." anyone really.

i mean, when grym is immune to most types of damage and resistant to most magic damage, i didnt feel like there was a lot of point to using spells on grym at all

[Greyrat]

Originally posted by Draknalor:

Here, Video to defeat him in like 3 min without using hammer.

https://youtu.be/7rZnbgaduHI?si=Q16G5y12L6xBfa3H

If you need some advice for future playthroughs

ty :)