OMG Meazels... What a Pain in the Butt!

[PlasteredDragon]

Yikes, I just fought against a group of Meazels. More than capable of dispatching them **working as a team** but their tactic of silencing and teleporting the party members all over the place away from each other was hella annoying. Is there a special tactic for handling them, or do you just have to grind your way through it?

[Elmdor]

I agree. The fight wasn't that difficult in the end, but man what a BS mechanic to deal with for the player.

I didn't test it, but I did notice they all had "rope" in their inventory when they died. I wonder if you steal that rope with invisibility before the battle it disables the garrote attack.

I'll have the try it next time.

[Pieshaman]

maybe I got lucky,
only shadowheart got teleported away from my party and she can stand her own for a while as a cleric + it made the harpers that were waiting for me to do ambush on the cultist convoy engage in the battle with the meazels,
so we were suddenly 8 person party

[thecelt]

My party got through the fight but it was a tough one. By the end two of my party members were more than 80 meters away from each other. The party only made it due to being pretty "tanky" with a Barbarian, Fighter, Ranger, Cleric, so the lack of spells though irritating while garrote is in place didn't prevent my tanks from gaining the upper hand.

If you have the HP to survive the opportunity attack you can run away and break the garrote allowing you to cast spells which I did with the cleric, but I realized that if you can successfully shove them you can run away without suffering the opportunity attack and hit them hard with magic.

[victorvnv]

The tactic is this: kill them all before they get to act this way they can’t teleport you.
Works every time for me

[RhodosGuard]

Get the Moonlantern/Pixie Blessing before the encounter.
Maybe get Volos Eye by having yours poked out, so you can get a surprise round against them.

Spellcasters can use Shocking Grasp to walk out of Garrotting without AoOs, and then Misty step somewhere else, after which the Maezel will usually Shadow Stap before silencing you meaning it cant teleport you away.

Other than that all you can do is try to get a light cantrip of any kind onto all of your party.
YOu get a Dancing Light Necklace quite early, you can get a ring with Light on it from the Arcane Tower, Shadowheart/Clerics just get Light or Produce Flame.

Another thing you can attempt is trying to get them prone with ice because that usually also breaks any magic effect they could inflict on you.

[jennireneex]

I get the perception check "hey this looks like an ambush spot".
I look around and see mobs.
I open fire on them.
Getting the initiative and dropping a couple right off the bat makes that fight so much simpler.
Course knowing they are there now for my 2nd and 3rd plays made it even easier to prepare.

[Loot]

Those are the ones that grab a party member and teleport them away while dealing damage via proximity, right? Can just disengage to move the 5ft you need to break the garrote effect.

[White Rider]

Originally posted by victorvnv:

The tactic is this: kill them all before they get to act this way they can’t teleport you.
Works every time for me

This.

There in an area where they can't really do anything to you unless you make the stupid decision to jump down in amongst them. Sit back and blast them with spells and ranged attacks while the funnel neatly into the natural corridor.
In this game you also get the ability to metagame by examining enemies to see what their weaknesses are. Drop a daylight spell, or even just light on someone and they basically can't do ♥♥♥♥.

[Oxytoxy365]

Originally posted by PlasteredDragon:

Yikes, I just fought against a group of Meazels. More than capable of dispatching them **working as a team** but their tactic of silencing and teleporting the party members all over the place away from each other was hella annoying. Is there a special tactic for handling them, or do you just have to grind your way through it?

it's so annoying because of the shadow curse, since only 1 character can hold the moonlantern

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by AllyAlabaster:

it's so annoying because of the shadow curse, since only 1 character can hold the moonlantern

There is an easy fix for that:

Talk to the pixie in the lantern and release her. I know, seems like a stupid thing to do, because you need that lantern. But actually, she'll give you protection against the shadow curse.

You give up having a powerful light source, but what you gain is the tactical ability for your party members to go anywhere they want to on their own without a light source and without taking curse damage.

[jonnin]

I detected them and on top of that someone noted it was a perfect ambush site. Having seen them a fireball and first round surprise killed 2 and the 3rd fell before it took a turn, leaving all my guys to deal with just 1. So the fight can play out differently depending on if you spot them or not, or have foreknowledge or not (no fun there), etc.

[Jaeexx]

Originally posted by Elmdor:

I didn't test it, but I did notice they all had "rope" in their inventory when they died. I wonder if you steal that rope with invisibility before the battle it disables the garrote attack.

I'll have the try it next time.

Tried it, no option for pickpocketing. FYI you can shove them off the roof if they missed the garroting.

[cirugo]

put the high dps melee party members in your group specifically for this fight. If your main is a caster try to keep them far away from the rest of the group so that you can dispatch some of the meazels before it grabs you. Try to set up a kill with a surprise attack to take out one of them before they can even start their BS.