Who designed the Large Water elemental????

[Annullo13]

Its bad enough its a 8 HD Large Water Elemental with Cleave, 2d6 per round freezing ability, and DR 5/- against a 4 lv 2 characters, but then the xp is laughable at best and there is missable loot? What designed this for Core Difficulty?

Edit: Made a correction for HD (and corresponding xp) and added the difficulty level I am on

[werewolficd]

There is a tutorial that pops up right before you run into the elemental that states that certain powerful enemies are optional to fight. You do so just to test your mettle. You do not need to fight the water elemental.

[Zarincos]

Yeah, that and Hosilla seem ridiculously overtuned. The water elemental I can kind of understand, it's an optional boss so it should be hard, but I have the enemies set to slightly weaker and turned off their crits... Hosilla still 1-shots everyone in my party. I know it'll even out more as 1d10 stops being half our hitpoints to begin with, but still.

[Bill Nye the Spy]

throw ranged weapons on your chars, turn mode, kite. It's that simple

[pinkfloyd9193]

Hahah ya that thing is F'n brutal. It used to be atleast doable on Core difficulty because they left a potion of cold protection, but was later removed for some reason during beta 3.
Save yourself the pain and just drop the difficulty to kill it. You will drive yourself mad otherwise.

[Arden]

Kite with a pet around the table with ranged weapons on everyone or save yourself 5-10 minutes and go to story mode. You can't die on that fight. Hosilla is the same but the quasits are a bit more annoying.

[Insanity_184]

2 things. you can use Camilla to either

1. Kite around the table while the other three kill it with arrows.

2. Sneak in steal treasure and get out.

I feel like it’s there to be a challenge and to teach you not all fights have to be won

[Midori-San]

Yeah I got clapped the first time I fought it second time I buffed my crew with scrolls and barely beat it fun times

[PhamTrinli]

Originally posted by werewolficd:

There is a tutorial that pops up right before you run into the elemental that states that certain powerful enemies are optional to fight. You do so just to test your mettle. You do not need to fight the water elemental.

More like test your masochism

[Isisius]

ugh, i didnt even think of switching off turn based. Made this fight a joke. Just had camilla run around the table and my party shoot the thing with arrows for 5 minutes. RTwP sucks lol

[jack_of_tears]

It was a good fight but I killed it and there is treasure hiding in the room that made it worth the effort, in my opinion.

[Tyrant]

I've stomped everything I've come across so far, Water Elemental, Hosilla, Shadow Demon and Vrock.

[Quacksalber]

I thought I didn't get any xp for it :D I can't loot one of the boxes either as the hand icon won't appear.

[Pepe]

Grease. Ofc you would need to run a sorc, probably :)
But yeah, damn biggie goes down ez. Got so pissed off at demons that I rerolled a sorc with water bloodline. Icy rays ftw :)

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by Pepe:

Grease. Ofc you would need to run a sorc, probably :)
But yeah, damn biggie goes down ez. Got so pissed off at demons that I rerolled a sorc with water bloodline. Icy rays ftw :)

Wow. I didn't even try that assuming it was immune.

[~|BBEG|~]

After a couple of attempts, I put it on Story Mode and just rolled over it. The encounter is just stupidly hard for level 2 characters with builds that may not have come online yet.