moonrise tower final fight no allies (no spoilers please)

[[59th] Pew Pew You're Dead]

hello.
can anyone suggest a good strategy for the tower fight with no harpers or nightsong? Before the fight I cleared shars temple and had shadowheart kill nightsong . I've not made it past turn 4 without getting a full party wipe on this fight (tactician) and I'm level 8. It's my first time playing so no spoilers if possible please. Turn one the Spider puts one of my companions down to about 20hp and by the end of turn one another companion will be low due to the skeletons. I have tried turning the skeletons with Shart domain but i can't get them all and more spawn due to reinforcements. I cast silence on the boss and his mage ally and hunger of hadar to slow/blind them, but once they are unleashed my party can't keep up with the amount of turn economy and I get wiped. Any suggestions?

[[59th] Pew Pew You're Dead]

My PC character sheet is 84HP 18AC Lv 8 Battlemaster (20str, 12 Dex, 15 Con, 8 Int, 13 Wis, 10 Cha) + advantage on rolls due to elixr of colossus and adamantine armour. Great weapon specialist.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Explosive barrels.

[eRe4s3r]

It would have been easier if you had caused some "opportune accidents" before you went spelunking into the act 2 transition fight ;p

Missing that, barrelmancy always helps. Hope you snatched all those smoke powder barrels.

invisibility and haste would otherwise help....

[Orion Invictus]

If all else fails, lower the difficulty.

[[59th] Pew Pew You're Dead]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

If all else fails, lower the difficulty.

i won't be doing that.

Originally posted by eRe4s3r:

It would have been easier if you had caused some "opportune accidents" before you went spelunking into the act 2 transition fight ;p

Missing that, barrelmancy always helps. Hope you snatched all those smoke powder barrels.

invisibility and haste would otherwise help....

already fought my way to the roof, you can't get up there prior to resolving that as far as i knew.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by 59th Pew Pew You're Dead:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

If all else fails, lower the difficulty.

i won't be doing that.

It's guaranteed to work, but it's your choice.

Oh, don't forget you can get out of Moonrise Towers (to the fast travel point) and rest, if you really need it.

[[59th] Pew Pew You're Dead]

guess I'll go fight the tax collector and the inn brewer to see if I can reach level 9. I'm about 3/4 of the way there already. If I can't, I'm going to spam darkness/blindness/silence on the mooks of the big boss then try to prone him and use all in + great weapon + bonus action + executioner crits to try and kill him in 1 turn

[[59th] Pew Pew You're Dead]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by 59th Pew Pew You're Dead:

i won't be doing that.

It's guaranteed to work, but it's your choice.

Oh, don't forget you can get out of Moonrise Towers (to the fast travel point) and rest, if you really need it.

you can't leave the roof after you start the fight surely?

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by 59th Pew Pew You're Dead:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

It's guaranteed to work, but it's your choice.

Oh, don't forget you can get out of Moonrise Towers (to the fast travel point) and rest, if you really need it.

you can't leave the roof after you start the fight surely?

My bad, I somehow missed the "final" in your title.

[Nilfsen]

- Check bags for things that can explode - powder bags for exmaple. Don't throw them drop them close to target and explode with fire arrow or cantrip. That might do quite a punch in cost of one attack.
- Speed potions/haste scrolls. Additional movement, action and armor.
- Potions can be placed on floor and "used" by attaking it. If placed correctly will heal few characters at cost of one action. Can also be thrown to achive same result (but it is harder as range of effect gets wonky). Healing done this way still triggers efects from items boosting healing and those efects when stacked are quite a boost.
- Use arrows (fire/electro/ice) to boost range dmg.
- Water botle broken on ground near enemies/thrown at enemies makes them wet. Wet targets get more dmg from electro and freezing attacks.
- Powder barrels, If it is not working, then you are using not enough of them.
- Empty containers like chests/barrels can be stacked and climbed on to get advantage on range atacks

- Loading previous save and comming back more prepared. Changing builds and items. Even act 1 items can create quite potent sets in right hands.

[GrandMajora]

Barrelmancy against the final boss worked for me. :-)

[Recjawjind]

You can roll trough moonrise pretty effortlessly if you just kill everyone outside of the final assault. Just go room by room, murderhobo-ing all the cultists.

[[59th] Pew Pew You're Dead]

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

You can roll trough moonrise pretty effortlessly if you just kill everyone outside of the final assault. Just go room by room, murderhobo-ing all the cultists.

why can no one read here? like 4th post i've said "i'm already on the rooftop".

Originally posted by Nilfsen:

- Check bags for things that can explode - powder bags for exmaple. Don't throw them drop them close to target and explode with fire arrow or cantrip. That might do quite a punch in cost of one attack.
- Speed potions/haste scrolls. Additional movement, action and armor.
- Potions can be placed on floor and "used" by attaking it. If placed correctly will heal few characters at cost of one action. Can also be thrown to achive same result (but it is harder as range of effect gets wonky). Healing done this way still triggers efects from items boosting healing and those efects when stacked are quite a boost.
- Use arrows (fire/electro/ice) to boost range dmg.
- Water botle broken on ground near enemies/thrown at enemies makes them wet. Wet targets get more dmg from electro and freezing attacks.
- Powder barrels, If it is not working, then you are using not enough of them.
- Empty containers like chests/barrels can be stacked and climbed on to get advantage on range atacks

- Loading previous save and comming back more prepared. Changing builds and items. Even act 1 items can create quite potent sets in right hands.

i've been using elixrs but i'm out of crafting materials for potions. is there a merchant anywhere selling things I haven't found?
Also it feels like a waste to spend 1 bonus action to heal around 20hp (superior healing potion avg healing) when I lose 50hp per round.

[[59th] Pew Pew You're Dead]

i won
crafted a potion of resistance to all damage and gave it to my PC with an elixir of bloodlust, proc'd silence on the dog, mage and the boss to stop any spells and frightened the mage so they couldn't leave a darknes sphere, prone'd the boss and used all in + extra action to kill him turn one, after that all my companions died but enemies couldn't damage my PC due to the resistance to all damage potion (was taking about 4 damage per turn from spider and 1 per hit from necroids with 94hp, and i could just use healing potions as bonus action to regen it all) and killed everyone with my pc.

[eRe4s3r]

Originally posted by 59th Pew Pew You're Dead:

i won
crafted a potion of resistance to all damage and gave it to my PC with an elixir of bloodlust, proc'd silence on the dog, mage and the boss to stop any spells and frightened the mage so they couldn't leave a darknes sphere, prone'd the boss and used all in + extra action to kill him turn one, after that all my companions died but enemies couldn't damage my PC due to the resistance to all damage potion (was taking about 4 damage per turn from spider and 1 per hit from necroids with 94hp, and i could just use healing potions as bonus action to regen it all) and killed everyone with my pc.

Congrats ,) Now on to the real final fight of Act 2 hah <3 And for future playthrough, you can remove at least 2 combatants from this fight before it happens..... ^^