Tips for Raphael.

[Exarch_Alpha]

So finally this is it, the fight versus the guy that will doom, detect and caught me.

My party is Lae´zel, Minthara, Bard Astarion (that is SUCH an upgrade for him... Swords school) and me Dark Urge.

Any tips or am I´m...

Doomed

[The Bee]

Hold monster

[Thomas D.]

Are you telling me you think Raphael is a monster!?

[Piperbird]

1. just sit and listen to the song a couple of times
2. barrelmancy on the pillars
3. profit

[Olga 1987]

The Sphere of Invulnerability scroll saved my group on Balanced. Also, I used Owlbear-Jaheira's Crushing flight to drop him on the floor and beating him to death by melee and Astarion's shooting with Gontr Mael bow. BTW, my Astarion was an Assassin with Alert feat, and he used the aforementioned scroll ASAP. While my group's been invulnerable, I did max damage to Raphael. I also got alive Hope, who healed the whole group after the invulnerability ended. Besides this, my paladin char had 16 Charisma, and I Persuaded Yurgir to help me.

[Яeplicant]

Bhaalist Dwarf whats-his-face carries some potions that inflict stun and last time I checked, Raph hates being stunned.

[20 faces on a die]

Monk with stun helped me. Throwing barbarian or other character who inflicts physical damage. Paladin for example. Every sorcerer, cleric etc is almost useless to inflict damage, only control

[belgix]

I used barrelmancy wiping all 4 pillars and half of my opponents in a single shot. What a firework it was.

I more classical approach would be to destroy the pillars before attacking Raphael. Those pillars are vulnerable to Bludgeoning and Force damage. The Orphic Hammer could be useful here. For Raphael, the Blood of Lathander could be useful to blind him. Beware of Korilla, she doesn`t have a lot of hp but can do serious damage to the party, so kill her fast. If you managed to get Yurgir on your side (I got it), it`s a plus otherwise you may find him pain in the *** with his invisibility.

Good luck!

[Draknalor]

Watch this

https://youtu.be/CG80kd0sBx0

Might give you an idea

[Favonius]

Increase the volume :D
Seriously, last time i went there, i used
- barrelmancy to clean most of his allies (maybe it's better against the pillars though)
- monk hireling that could stun Raphael (maybe i was lucky)
- Hasted Gale casting good old magic missiles
He was down before he could do anything very scary (the music though...) , even before i dropped all the pillars

Another interesting thing is Hope as a cleric : she has healing but also divine intervention in case it turns bad for you
Also, Raphael has an anti-planar binding feat...

[KRON]

A runepowder bomb surrounded by 2-3 dozen smokepowder barrells should do the job.

[Mike Garrison]

I just did this recently. Lae'zel killed two pillars on the first turn with the Orphic Hammer. Gale killed two pillars on the first turn with the Artistry Of War spell.

Then we mostly focused on killing the cambions. Stuck Raph with a couple of Hold Monsters.

With all the Cambions dead, Raph usually goes down pretty easy.

I had Yurgir on my team.

[Gaius]

In my first run this fight cought me off guard and what allowed me to win was invulnerability sphere wih Hope inside - she helps a LOT.

Other than that, crowd control. Hold monster and Otto's irresistible dance and MVPs.

[Lisan al Gaib]

If you have the tadpoles I love to start this fight with a Black Hole followed up by some large AOE. It also helps if you have Alert at this point.

The NPC you save, I think her name is Hope, has some strong heals but she can drop fast so try to keep her alive. She also has a Divine Intervention spell to burn, might as well.

Bludgeoning attacks for the pillars + potions/scrolls for extra actions.

[jeffy]

use the spelll to turn him into a wheel of cheese

[euromanijak]

Globe of invulnerability spell or scroll and that fight goes to really hard to really easy
and like other mentioned hold monster you can get a boat load of both globe and hold monster scroll from the wizard merchant in act 3