House of hope

[Zachward97]

For those of you who stumbled their way into avernus like I did what was your strategy for getting out? I had to use my divine intervention to make it out alive after robbing the place blind of 3 legendary items.

[The Vagrant Knight]

fire resistance potions, Karlach with strength pots, a whole lot of attacks per turn due to multiclassing. Used Gale to magic missile the living hell out of the pillars

and the rest is history

[Zachward97]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

I straight fought him. Two clerics, didn't use divine intervention, still don't know what that even does. Used magic missle and eldritch blast on Gale to blast the soul pillars while I worked on the adds with the others.
Sadly Raph went berserk and blasted a huge area with fire which nuked Hope. Was sad about that, but I decided to continue on without her. I'll try to get her out in a different run.
After the pillars were down I just slowly worked him down while doing what I could to keep people in acceptable condition. Fight was quite a tough one, but I enjoyed the hell out of it, especially the song. Banger song.

The only way I can describe divine intervention is turning on Plot armor mode lol it is very powerful but man all these recommendations make we want to reload that save and make rapheal dance haha

[Razorblade]

I just tranformed one of my guys into a Diplacer Beast, Displaced Raphael onto the bridge, Arcane Locked the door, then shoved him off the edge.

Haste on Lae'zel + Hope's Banishment spell took care of the rest of the devils pretty quickly.

[SoloQ]

Originally posted by Zachward97:

Bump did anyone else stumble into this area??

Chain lightning and magic missiles. I've been abusing the broken free cast ability ; )
Keeping Hope alive helps. And generally I'm okay with a death during a fight since I always summon the angel that can resurrect, but it's only companions. : (.
Most epic fight music ever btw. The first time I convinced the big guy to join me, but every time after that I failed that roll. (I restarted the fight 3 times to save Hope. There was no way I was going to let her die after all of that effort to save her.

[Zachward97]

Originally posted by SoloQ:

Originally posted by Zachward97:

Bump did anyone else stumble into this area??

Chain lightning and magic missiles. I've been abusing the broken free cast ability ; )
Keeping Hope alive helps.
Most epic fight music ever btw. The first time I convinced the big guy to join me, but every time after that I failed that roll. (I restarted the fight 3 times to save Hope. There was no way I was going to let her die after all of that effort to save her.

Agreed the music was awesome prob one of my fav fights so far and agreed cant let hope die what even is the house of hope with out hope and oof on the big guy the fights hard enough with out him trying to kill you he makes a good ally

[Zachward97]

Originally posted by Razorblade:

I just tranformed one of my guys into a Diplacer Beast, Displaced Raphael onto the bridge, Arcane Locked the door, then shoved him off the edge.

Haste on Lae'zel + Hope's Banishment spell took care of the rest of the devils pretty quickly.

I wish I had Laezel in my party for that fight I switched her out right before going in for astarion for the lock picking and there is no way I can get any stealth shots in with him for that fight which makes him my weakest fighter for the fight but pushing raphael off thte bridge and you lose out on a few legendary items not worth it imo

[LArc7thHeaven]

This encounter had the same spirit like doctor encounter in D:OS 2 right? i'm not there yet but i feel they are basically a copy of doctor encounter

[Zent]

Originally posted by Zachward97:

For those of you who stumbled their way into avernus like I did what was your strategy for getting out? I had to use my divine intervention to make it out alive after robbing the place blind of 3 legendary items.

strategy?

uh.. murder i guess? wizard was level 10 so just used 5th level spell slots on magic missile and wrecked the pillars, bard nailed raphael with hold person, cleric and fighter cleaned up adds. Entire fight was under 3 turns

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by Zachward97:

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

I straight fought him. Two clerics, didn't use divine intervention, still don't know what that even does. Used magic missle and eldritch blast on Gale to blast the soul pillars while I worked on the adds with the others.
Sadly Raph went berserk and blasted a huge area with fire which nuked Hope. Was sad about that, but I decided to continue on without her. I'll try to get her out in a different run.
After the pillars were down I just slowly worked him down while doing what I could to keep people in acceptable condition. Fight was quite a tough one, but I enjoyed the hell out of it, especially the song. Banger song.

The only way I can describe divine intervention is turning on Plot armor mode lol it is very powerful but man all these recommendations make we want to reload that save and make rapheal dance haha

Sad part was he bugged in mine. Yeah the spell was active, but in mine he largely stood in place in an awkward position not moving. Oh well, the effect is the more important part.

[Zachward97]

Well I reloaded my save and I must say the power of dance made that fight stupid easy divine intervention was not even a consideration GG

[Merk]

paralyzed raph on turn one killed him and his goons on turn 2. sorc and monk go brrrr.

[Rint]

well, since it hasnt been said, the final fight isnt as bad if you have The Blood of Lathander from act 1-2; as the passive Blinds Undead and Devils park a character with it near Raph, and just giggle while he cant hit anything.

[Ch3ls3ab0t]

Healbot Hope is great here. Convincing the big boi to fight with you is helpful also and he will offer to help you in the future if he survives. He doesn’t really care if your party gets caught in his concussive shot though. Lol. I also used the ghouls from necromancy of Thay here. They are just so helpful in general. My sorc is very fire heavy in spells so the fight took a while. It wasn’t super hard. Just went on for a long time.
Side note: I did this today before they rolled back the update. 😭

[HTakara]

bust the pillars as fast as possible, it stuns him for a really long time.

[peacecatman]

I cannot get out of House of Hope after the battle, none of the portals work.