Final boss fight difficulty

[Agent Wreck’d]

So spoilers, if you can’t figure it out from the title.

I’m playing on the easiest setting and cannot make it past the final boss. Just constant waves. How are you supposed to beat this? You get lucky and take down the mind flayers, the dragon, and the random thralls, then go through the portal. Surprise! You have to do 250 damage in 3 turns or you fall and die.

I suspect this is not the right difficulty level for the easiest level.

[AlmostAndy]

No need to fight them at all. The objective is to get to the crown and use the stones. Whichever character has them needs to get in front of the crown as fast as possible and use the special ability the stones give them (far right of tool bar).

What I did was have people fly as far as they could and then anyone with teleport would send themselves and another party member to just in front of the crown. My Main character has the shield of invulnerability (or whatever) so I cast that to cover everyone and then initiated the Dominate the Mind action. You should try to kill or occupy the Mind Flayers because you need to have the character with the stones go the full round without getting their concentration broken. Once you've done that, you can advance

[Agent Wreck’d]

Two of my characters have fly and the other two have dimension door, but I can’t get close enough to it without dying. I don’t have invulnerability either

[AlmostAndy]

Once you've gone through the portal, are you taking all of your party members through afterwards?
I really can't say I ever had any difficulty dealing the damage at the end. 4 rounds with all 5 of you attacking it should be more than enough time.

[Agent Wreck’d]

I have only made it through the portal once, with one character, all of the others are dead. I simply can’t make it to the portal. I’m trying it right now, I teleported two characters and one flame breath from the dragon nearly killed them in one hit.

I do not see how to beat this at all. A dragon, several thrall party members, and several illithid who do 1/4 to 1/2 the health a hit. I can’t even get reliably to the brain.

[EroticOnion23]

Originally posted by Patrick:

So spoilers, if you can’t figure it out from the title.

I’m playing on the easiest setting and cannot make it past the final boss. Just constant waves. How are you supposed to beat this? You get lucky and take down the mind flayers, the dragon, and the random thralls, then go through the portal. Surprise! You have to do 250 damage in 3 turns or you fall and die.

I suspect this is not the right difficulty level for the easiest level.

My main is a wizard, and I took abjuration Gale with me, and I just juggle-walked cross the middle with Globe of Invulnerability... xD

[Batailleuse]

Originally posted by Patrick:

So spoilers, if you can’t figure it out from the title.

I’m playing on the easiest setting and cannot make it past the final boss. Just constant waves. How are you supposed to beat this? You get lucky and take down the mind flayers, the dragon, and the random thralls, then go through the portal. Surprise! You have to do 250 damage in 3 turns or you fall and die.

I suspect this is not the right difficulty level for the easiest level.

you may play in easy but it seems you did not properly recruit your allies.

the more sub quests you do, some hidden, the more allies will help you for that fight, and the less reinforcement the enemy will have.

For instance, you can recruit a dragon too... if you know where to go, and how to unlock it.

in the end it all depends how you played your game, Easiest difficulty does not mean easy at all if you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up choices earlier in the game and did not recruit allies.

if it's any indication, i can do well over 500 damage in a turn provided i just rested.
if that's any help
warlock/pala (6/6)
10 storm cleric + 2 fighter
7 storm cleric + 5 eldritch knight (tank)
5 rogue/7 ranger (dual wield ranged)

i one turned the "mecha" boss in act 3 earlier for instance.

[Agent Wreck’d]

I have played for 70 hours, and did lots of side quests! I have Shadowheart as the chosen of shar, my character as the chosen of bhaal, and Astarion as the vampire ascendant! I recruited Ethel, have the vampire undead, Shadowhearts followers, and supposedly the bhaal recruited. All of them die in one turn on the final boss fight.

[Overthemoon (Alt)]

Originally posted by Patrick:

So spoilers, if you can’t figure it out from the title.

I’m playing on the easiest setting and cannot make it past the final boss. Just constant waves. How are you supposed to beat this? You get lucky and take down the mind flayers, the dragon, and the random thralls, then go through the portal. Surprise! You have to do 250 damage in 3 turns or you fall and die.

I suspect this is not the right difficulty level for the easiest level.

I've been having a really rough time of it too, the closest I've ever gotten was getting past the portal...only to die every time the brain sends out a shock wave from damaging it simply because I cant heal everyone fast enough. Even using all the allies I gathered during the play through I never make it farther than maybe dealing 50 or so dmg to the brain

[Agent Wreck’d]

Alright I did it. Barely. Here’s the sequence:

-get everyone to the portal as fast as possible
-don’t let your spell caster get cancelled by the thrall on the right. I used telekinesis to throw him at the dragon and make him prone so I could use dimension door and give myself a head start
-had the emperor use telekinesis to throw enemies around that were causing too much trouble also
-Shadowheart had to use divine intervention at the portal to heal everyone for the last push
-just got lucky the emperor managed to save during the numerous attacks while he focused on the spell

Was a real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[diimiitrii]

How is that fight difficult? I had everything cleared including the spawning tentacles on the entire platform before the nautiloid landed and I killed the netherbrain before it took a turn when entered on tactitian?

I had a rogue and a ranger do basically everything. my barb just was there to kill the tentacles and soak some dmg and the cleric did absolutely nothing as he always did, but standing there and watching the real classes do the work.

I just didn't waste my turns on summoning allies and instead attacked with my characters. the emperor and the dragon were both dead before they had an action.

[TeufelHunden]

It baffles me how people find this game difficult, even on Tactician I thought this game was too easy.

[buyme1]

Originally posted by TeufelHunden:

It baffles me how people find this game difficult, even on Tactician I thought this game was too easy.

There is always one. *eye roll*

But in this case the OP was making it much more difficult than it is. For anyone in doubt, there is no reason to fight the dragon. Avoid it as much as possible. Get Orpheus or who ever has the stones to the crown and kill the mind flayers who will try to stun him. After the cut scene if you did that your characters should be near the portal so run through as fast as you can. Considering that the brain does not really fight back, whittling it down to 0 actually is easy.

You really don't need allies although I summoned a couple of elementals just to distract some of the rabble which of course you can do before the fight starts.

[mavswank13]

rush to the crown use the mind flayer spell. cast invulnerability enjoy free game.

[Moonbane]

Dimension door scrolls, give it to everyone.

[ChrisH]

The method I used was to summon all of my allies initially. This kept the hostiles occupied.

You can use the dragon breath to take out 2 of the Mind Flayers on the upper platforms.

You should be able to get your party to the portal area as a priority. Don't engage the hostiles, just focus on getting up there fast using things like Misty Step, Dimension Door, Dash and so on. Make sure they all go in together as you only have 5 turns once inside to take down the brain. If you've got all 5 inside you should be home and dry.