Tips on beating the undead pack of hooligans that stand in the way on Mountain Path

[vi3tnam]

Topic. There is a pack of ghouls and two death knight like dudes just moseying around where I believe I need to go through. Seems like I need to get pass these guys to progress but my ass is sadly handed back to me. Kind of feels like I'm playing X-com with the misses that I'm seeing but hey whatevers I fight on. But when the knights started rezzing each other I lost some faith. Lets not forget the stupid green zombie that can paralyze your team mate and the ghouls then proceed to gang bang the paralyzed team mate for that free critical damage. Tell me Holy water exists.

[ShadowBastard69]

yeah it can be a tough fight depending on the build of your mc and the composition of the party. focus the death sheperds (big skeleton guys). helps to bring someone that can turn undead since you can usually turn the ghouls on the first turn to make it easier to focus down the skeletons.

other than that theres no real reason to fight them if you dont want to, the only thing theyre blocking is an alternate route to the shadow lands.

[FenvalTTV]

Shadowheart's "Turn Undead" was mad usefull (Divine Channel)

[vi3tnam]

Word? I dont have to fight them? I thought the quest marker for getting to the creicsh was pointed in that directions.

[ShadowBastard69]

no turn right down the path before you get to that spot, go downhill you'll see a big lift thing that takes you to the creche

[KingOfFriedChicken]

I had no issue with the fight, I had to reload cuz of something I did after and did it twice, the first thing is killing them both on the same turn. If you kill 1 though loot it thay same turn take its weapons and armor and its a lot easier haha then make them priority targets.

The 2nd time thru I separated them, I used spells to get them apart and make movement towards each other harder, spells like lashing vine, thunder clap for push or pull, and weed growth to slow movement. The goal the same, kill them at the same time, if you fail then they have to move slowly for multiple turns to revive. They are undead so radiant or fire damage are extra effective and if you have some way to disingrate the corpse (not sure it's possible) they can't revive each other. I was only lvl 5 when I stumbled in to these fools but it wasn't a rough fight. Not sure it works but silence may also stop them?

[Pepe]

I was kinda struggling to defeat them until i used Shadowheart spell Create Water and Gale lvl 3 Lighting Bolt. Since it's a tight path near the signpost i started the fight there. So first thing i did is i used Create Water on the mobs (that makes them have the debuff wet) and since they have the debuff wet Lightining spells do x2 more damage. So i could fry them all in a single shot. Hope it helps you.

[Xype]

Just bash down the death knight guys first, if you kill a ghoul they will just raise it again.

[wendigo211]

I had Wyll Fireball them, that took out the ghouls and left the wounded Death Shepherds and Ghast. Next Astarion took out one of the Death Shepherds. The remaining Death Shepherd resurrected a ghoul. My Palabard then got to act and smote the last Death Shepherd. The ghast ran in paralyzed Shadowheart. The next round Wyll Eldritch Blasted the resurrected ghoul to smithereens and Astarion and my Palabard killed the ghast.

[KittyMuffins0113]

No matter what I do, I can't get past the death shepherds and ghouls.

[Lovecraft]

have a tank character. make him a battle master. pick trip attack and precision attack.
when you fight them have him trip so that the rest of party can focus the dude when prone. rinse repeat. also cloud of daggers spell helps since this is probably the only viable aoe spell you have at this point or maybe grease. if you have 3rd lvl spells available then spirit guardians (for the cleric) plus spiritual weapon. for wizard spells at 3 lvl fire ball.
hope this helps.

[Greb]

Just pick up the corpses and they can't be revived. If you're running out of pockets, pick up only the Death Shepherds. Presto, fight is over.

[steelcoresoviet]

Turn Undead+ Spirit Guardians should be the core of your strategy.

Fireballs and such are nice, but you can also melee them to death.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by KittyMuffins0113:

No matter what I do, I can't get past the death shepherds and ghouls.

You gotta kill rhe death sheperds at the same time, they are annoying, I recommend using throw spells or skills, to separate them then put some kinda rough terrain between the 1 split off so it's hard to get to him. Also any radiant damage you have is good against undead, if you have a cleric the turn undead spell phenomenal.

[Elvi]

I think you can either walk around them, or alternatively, just nuke the shepherds, both in the same turn. Fireballs work well. Especially many of them.

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by Fenval:

Shadowheart's "Turn Undead" was mad usefull (Divine Channel)

That's very useful for these Death Shepherds.

The other thing is they are highly vulnerable to ice and I think grease etc., don't think they're too hot on the DEX. They can't rez ♥♥♥♥♥ if they're on their arses. You can see how this is done on Werglia's boss fight playlist.

The big things are to bring both Death Shepherd's HP down at the same time so eventually you can kill both on one turn and to watch out for that Ghast as it's lot more dangerous than the Ghouls. Mercifully the Shepherds may be able to rez at will but they can't heal, that's important.

Slow would be a very good spell to use in this situation if someone's got it. I'm not sure if the Shepherds are immune to it though.

Lastly it's a lot easier to progress via the Underdark route if this battle is too much for your party at the moment and you haven't got the required spells/abilities. You can always do this fight later when you're stronger.