How do you kill the beholder in the Underdark?

[Exarch_Alpha]

Remebered to ask this. I always went the minotaur route.

At level 5 it´s a complete blood bath The thing is so fast and ranged damage output so low... Barrelmancy is try to setup. And 150 HP, ewww...

How people kill this thing?

[MS]

I let Astarion sneak on the ledge before I strutted in.
The beholder focused him and went to his position. Killed Astarion.
So I moved and blocked the beholder against a wall with a paladin, Lae'zel and Shadowheart.
He went down pretty quick.

[The gnomeman]

Originally posted by Mal:

When he unpetrifies the drow hit them once and they will turn neutral and attack the spectator (beholder on roids). And use jump or dash for your melee to get close he seems to only move far every couple of rounds.

spectators are a watered down version of beholders

[Kafik]

Originally posted by edouard.mm1:

Originally posted by Mal:

When he unpetrifies the drow hit them once and they will turn neutral and attack the spectator (beholder on roids). And use jump or dash for your melee to get close he seems to only move far every couple of rounds.

spectators are a watered down version of beholders

You're right. He's on hemorrhoids and not steroids then.

[nod for kiss]

level 5 should be more than enough on this fight

[Recjawjind]

Originally posted by Mal:

Originally posted by edouard.mm1:

spectators are a watered down version of beholders

You're right. He's on hemorrhoids and not steroids then.

Well, for a spectator it is kind of on steroids. Compared to their 5e statblock, these ones are FAAAAAAR more dangerous.
For reference, this is the statblock of a spectator: https://5e.tools/bestiary.html#spectator_mm

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by RhiTheWitch:

Karlach is also multi-classed w 2 levels of fighter so she has action surge too

Why would you do that when a Level 5 Barbarian Karlach can attack twice every round instead of only once per short rest with Action Surge?

[Agent Chieftain]

Originally posted by Zsrai:

Originally posted by RhiTheWitch:

Karlach is also multi-classed w 2 levels of fighter so she has action surge too

Why would you do that when a Level 5 Barbarian Karlach can attack twice every round instead of only once per short rest with Action Surge?

Technically 3 times if you made her a Berserker. Though you will build up attack penalties if you use it more than once every second turn.

[RhiTheWitch]

Originally posted by Zsrai:

Originally posted by RhiTheWitch:

Karlach is also multi-classed w 2 levels of fighter so she has action surge too

Why would you do that when a Level 5 Barbarian Karlach can attack twice every round instead of only once per short rest with Action Surge?

Some of y’all are so weird about this game. Isn’t the point to play with builds and experiment with them? OP ask how people beat this specific encounter. I gave details about how I beat it personally on my most recent playthrough and the details.

You guys picking apart everyone’s build as if you’re going to get some award for being the BG3\DND supreme DM or some weird stuff is exactly why 9/10 any post asking for help no one will ever post their stats because y’all act like creeps about it.

Why? It’s fun.

Y’all being weird and having an ego trap about ideal builds is exactly why people don’t join the DND community

[Kuro X Kage]

Exactly how much AP does that thing have? It felt like it was attacking and moving nonstop. Crazy fight!

[lawjax]

It is something of a gimmick but the Spectator cannot see so well in Darkness, as with most creatures that do not possess Devil's Sight. If you have a party member with Devil's Sight then you can simply wait the surprise round out and allow the unpetrified Drow to cast Darkness, which he will reliably do on his first activation, and then swindle the Spectator with your Devil's Sight character while leaving the rest of your party in Darkness' AOE.

If you do not possess Devil's Sight then you can still use Darkness as a cover (under the cover of Darkness, no?) and rotate your party out of and back into the Darkness AOE during their round while taking shots at the Spectator. The long-term implications of this are less impressive--the Spectator will join your party eventually in the AOE even though it is rendered blind by it and you will no longer be able to hit it without Devil's Sight or clearing the Darkness spell when it does.

Either way, the spell grants you time to cast some advantageous spells on your party as it affords you a great deal of safety at the expense of allowing the Spectator to continue unpetrifying the Drow, which you may have to account for later if you do not vanquish the Spectator in short order. If you want to break this encounter and every other like it then you can just take Alert as a feat and reliably marginalize the difficulty of this and every other fight in the game.

[Velber]

Originally posted by Mal:

When he unpetrifies the drow hit them once and they will turn neutral and attack the spectator (beholder on roids). And use jump or dash for your melee to get close he seems to only move far every couple of rounds.

this happened, and i had no idea wtf was going on but they surrounded him and killed the beholder while i was reviving my dumb dead companions and i didnt even notice

[abortion_selfie]

That owlbear spear "Vision of Absolute" does massive damage to eye-centric enemies.

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by RhiTheWitch:

Originally posted by Zsrai:

Why would you do that when a Level 5 Barbarian Karlach can attack twice every round instead of only once per short rest with Action Surge?

Some of y’all are so weird about this game. Isn’t the point to play with builds and experiment with them? OP ask how people beat this specific encounter. I gave details about how I beat it personally on my most recent playthrough and the details.

You guys picking apart everyone’s build as if you’re going to get some award for being the BG3\DND supreme DM or some weird stuff is exactly why 9/10 any post asking for help no one will ever post their stats because y’all act like creeps about it.

Why? It’s fun.

Y’all being weird and having an ego trap about ideal builds is exactly why people don’t join the DND community

Nah, I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ what you do. Honestly. The game's not that hard, you can run pretty much any party you want and do well; I almost never multi-class since dips feel like cheese to me, f. ex. Your Karlach just seems like a confusing choice, especially when you pointed out you were using Karlach for "high damage output" and then chose a low damage (at character level 5) multi-class split. When you could just wait till character level 6 to start getting Fighter levels, is all.

[PeLeSki]

I always lure it up to the selunite temple. Just shooting one of the statues from above will spawn it. Hide your softies around the corner.

[Fliqpy]

I didn't know there even was a beholder down there. What do you get from killing it?