Ansur unsurvivable

[Liþe-Gæst]

I'm doing the dragon boss fight, but he insta-kills my entire party with the blast no matter what cover i go behind. I get him to half health on a good attempt on the first turn which forces him into charging on his first turn and even though it says he is meant to charge for 2 turns he does it on his next turn anyway.
I just barely get everyone in cover behind crystals but it instantly kills us all anyway, It's either very buggy or poor designed.

It's a very pitched battle anyway with elementals that can heal him and a hitbox that makes it so that trying to position your party around ansur causes him to make a react and knock you down.

Any help?

[grab these bandages]

Crystals does not provide cover, break them to get Thunder resistance

[Harukage]

Easy way - Globe of Invulnerability. Bring Gale with you or find a scroll. it is random but traders in the lower city might have it.

[Liþe-Gæst]

Originally posted by grab these bandages:

Crystals does not provide cover, break them to get Thunder resistance

Thanks for the advice, it's still alot of damage to take.
I think that shadowheart's dialogue of ''get behind cover'' needs fixing in a patch in that case.

[Liþe-Gæst]

Originally posted by Harukage:

Easy way - Globe of Invulnerability. Bring Gale with you or find a scroll. it is random but traders in the lower city might have it.

Thanks for the advice, i'll give it a few more tries, if not i'll look for that scroll. Gale isn't available for me at the moment.

[Kolgrimr]

Originally posted by Venomwolfsbain:

Originally posted by Harukage:

Easy way - Globe of Invulnerability. Bring Gale with you or find a scroll. it is random but traders in the lower city might have it.

Thanks for the advice, i'll give it a few more tries, if not i'll look for that scroll. Gale isn't available for me at the moment.

If you're struggling to find those scrolls, you can refresh the inventory at Sorcerous Sundries using long rests. I was buying 2-3 scrolls per visit, though I did spend some time picking pockets for gold beforehand. I'm pretty sure I found some exploring its vaults as well.

[YumOrNo]

I beat it on tactician. I was level 12 already. I fed my party electric resistance elixirs before hand and focused down the dragon first. Survived the first blast with low HP. I killed it while charging it's second blast, getting me that achievement. The stupid adds almost killed me after I got him down.

[grab these bandages]

Originally posted by Venomwolfsbain:

Originally posted by grab these bandages:

Crystals does not provide cover, break them to get Thunder resistance

Thanks for the advice, it's still alot of damage to take.
I think that shadowheart's dialogue of ''get behind cover'' needs fixing in a patch in that case.

I agreed, this phrase is very inconsistent and distracting you to dead end. With thunder resistance Ansur is not so deadly, dealing ~40 damage per blast.

[info]

Originally posted by Venomwolfsbain:

I'm doing the dragon boss fight, but he insta-kills my entire party with the blast no matter what cover i go behind. I get him to half health on a good attempt on the first turn which forces him into charging on his first turn and even though it says he is meant to charge for 2 turns he does it on his next turn anyway.
I just barely get everyone in cover behind crystals but it instantly kills us all anyway, It's either very buggy or poor designed.

It's a very pitched battle anyway with elementals that can heal him and a hitbox that makes it so that trying to position your party around ansur causes him to make a react and knock you down.

Any help?

...Oh!?...man i did this first run on tactician on the first try...All I can say is Max out first, it's a damn Dragon.

[wendigo211]

Kill it before it uses it's breath weapon? I had no trouble doing this on Tactician, but my main was a Paladin/Bard so smite, smite, smite,... smite, smite.. smite...Also, it's undead so Blood of Lathander can keep it blind for this fight too.

Lae'zel with haste and action surge should give you a round with 9 attacks. Assuming she can hit for around 30, that should take a big chunk of that health bar.

[Pathen Night]

Originally posted by grab these bandages:

Crystals does not provide cover, break them to get Thunder resistance

Crystals do provide cover if you stand in the right spot. If you are even the slightest bit in the shots path then you will be seriously injured or killed.

[Chroniver]

As said: globe of invulnerability when placed correctly (so your characters are just in at the edge and he is just outside of it), trivializes the fight considerably.

One cheese tactic I used (because I was underleveled and was doing him with stronger bosses mod & legendary actions) was to have your characters run out of the room back to where you came from except for your toughest melee character. That way you can make only 1 character get hit by his blast.

[Kappa]

If you feel unsure, you can exploit the whole fight with globe of invulnerability.
Otherwise, you can just dps ( and burst when needed ).

Be also careful with their reaction trying not to shot the whole party, an get rid of adds asap.

[Gob]

Its a fight that can expose a weaker party.

Up until then you can get away with carrying one or even two characters who really aren't contributing much DPS.

With Ansur though you want to dump a lot of damage on him quickly and some parties just aren't set up for that.

Classes and builds that can do lots of attacks and high damage for each of those is what you are aiming for. Getting Haste on each or most of the your party members before the fight is one way to help too.

[AokiYakumo]

Deus ex Necropost.

Oh, for the record to anyone reading this post: The "Crystals don't grant cover" thing was patched out. You should be able to hide from Ansur's nova from behind them now. I've done that 3 times up to this point and the only time I lost someone was when he decided to curbstomp SHeart into the pit on my last run.

[Lightseeker]

Elixirs of lightening protection.Blunt weapon with Paladin/fighter that are hasted.
Even in honour mode ive never really had a hard time with him.