Does Auntie Ethel in Act 1 run out of clones?

[Bear "Pissmeister" Grylls]

If you just tank the damage and go after the clones, can you down them all, reducing it to just her, and then take time killing her?

[jonnin]

It may depend on difficulty level but I believe that on 'normal' level she only has 3 casts, self, woman, self again. So taking them out will prompt her to make more, but I am not sure she has an infinite supply, its never lasted that long. I think once the last set are down its done.

the void bulbs you collected from the nauteloid intro and ship etc will take the clones out very quickly, 2-3 at a time, as they die from 1 damage, and these also won't kill the woman unless you derp her into a mine (there are 2 or 3 mines in the arena).

[cl656]

Want to know a secret to that fight,? you can tell who the real Auntie Ethel is, because the fake ones all wear a blue sash, while the real one wears a red sash. With the Maryina clones, the real one has a baby bump, while the clones do not.

[waltc]

That's the thing about magic, in general, not even the nasty hag Auntie Ethel has a limitless supply of it, although she pretends otherwise...;) Strategy involves making sure your supply outlasts hers.

[Bear "Pissmeister" Grylls]

Yeah I know that secret, but she moves around a lot and in Honor mode she spams a lot of clones if you use spells, so you have to bring her down in a few rounds, which can be hard even if you know which one is the real one. I just wanted to not use spells in the fight and tank her while killing all the clones then hit her.

So I did it, it was really easy but I came way overprepared. Brought, 2 martials, Fighter and Barb, a Cleric and a Bard. Everyone had Elixir of Poison resistance, I set up people around the arena, Bard approached her spawn with See invis and Invis. Then went turn mode and applied buffs and summons (a lot of these last only 10 turns so I used turn mode to make these as simulatneous as possible). Martials applies Triple jump spell/potion for 10 turns, oils, bard brought out scratch, cleirc had spiritual weapon and Spirit guardians (so you can just Dash and run past clones to kill them). Then Bard opened up with Faerie Fire on Hag.

She spawned first round of clones and I promptly killed them with Void Bulbs (huge aoe grenades that deal one damage) + some normal attacks. I had grenades and arrows that leave fields to make sure to hit clones 100% but it wasn't really needed. She never spawned more clones, I suspect that because second clone spawn ability turns her invisible, and she couldn't turn invisible due to Faerie Fire. So she was alone and all attackers had advantage on her due to Faerie Fire (people are sleeping on this spell). Easy.

[dancing.in.the.web]

You can try just to burst her at first scene before she teleports. You need to switch to other characters and move to sutable position (near the fireplace) and you also need to have person with detect invisibility active (or Volo's eye). If you have throwing barb or smite pal or ranger it's possible to take her out in just one round (if you have speed pots it's even pretty easy).

[5ive6se7en]

I honestly don't understand why anyone willingly fights her in her lair lol.

Just don't piss her off when you confront her in the teahouse, pass a perception check on the fireplace and once you interact with it, you will start the fight. Arcane lock the stairs behind the fireplace and watch the fight become a joke.

[Czulu]

These clones disappear when hit by anythig, so i used magis missiles to detect real one. Also went to finsh her of pretty late in Act 1 when i got lvled casters with fireballs to finishe her off quickly.

[Hexoplex]

Originally posted by Czulu:

These clones disappear when hit by anythig, so i used magis missiles to detect real one. Also went to finsh her of pretty late in Act 1 when i got lvled casters with fireballs to finishe her off quickly.

You finish her too quickly and you miss the cutscene and bonus item chance.