Balor Darazzaned won't die?

[Mike Hunt]

Fought him multiple times and he just gets to 0 health but never dies. read that the dwarf is supposed to come and kill him but nothing happens when i get him low or to 0hp??????/

[Mordred Morghul]

Yup. Bump

[AlexnChaos]

Originally posted by Mike Hunt:

Fought him multiple times and he just gets to 0 health but never dies. read that the dwarf is supposed to come and kill him but nothing happens when i get him low or to 0hp??????/

think it's scripted, or he's got regen and I lucked into whatever he's weak to after a couple of rounds of him being dead if not for it

[Daliena]

Have you tried continuing to fight for a little while, to see if Graybor's trigger is time-based rather than being based on Darawhatshisface's HP?

[NixAhmose]

Tsk tsk, that's what you get for thinking that you're supposed to fight a boss in an encounter that heavily telegraphs to you that you're supposed to fight the boss.

What you're actually supposed to do is stay on top of the stair case and do nothing until Greybor comes. That's it. The encounter is basically one big troll to heavily punish the player for thinking that they're supposed to fight the boss the game told them to fight.

[nikonarou]

I got him to 0, and on his next turn Greybor showed up.

[NixAhmose]

Originally posted by nikonarou:

I got him to 0, and on his next turn Greybor showed up.

How many turns had past? I think Grey Bor always shows up at the beginning of round 5 or 6.

[butula13]

Absolutely terrible game design. They shouldn't let the player frantically waste three turns of spells on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BALOR I'M FIGHTING AT LEVEL NINE. And some of the challenge ramps in this game are just crazy enough that I thought it was a legit fight, hell, I'm pretty sure there's an enemy later in the siege with a higher AC. If they want to sell Greybor just have a cut scene, don't make me do all the work, then have him jump in for the kill steal AND ♥♥♥♥ it up btw, then have the gall to charge me for his services. He should be paying me to get a cut of my loot.

[Mechalibur]

I'm not sure if you have to get him to 0 hp, just last long enough for Greybor to show up.

[butula13]

Regardless, in a game as lousy with "hey, I'd love to have some input right now" cut scenes (say when characters sprint through my entire party after being wounded to escape combat, or spend multiple rounds explaining the evil thing they're about to do while the party just stands around doing their idle animations) it's absurd that they give you the option of blowing through a bunch of limited resources, not to mention the tons of damage he can inflict if you run up to engage him, when they could have just scripted something to play out without your involvement.

[The Silver Santana]

It is a ♥♥♥♥♥ move by owlcat. If you kill him legit, you should be rewarded, not blueballed. CR 20 is not that hard compared to the nonsense you usually get.

Not that I have a problem with it, in general, but he should be killable and you should get a warning from Greybor that something is up. A quick whisper or a sight of him climbing the walls before you go in.

[butula13]

Killing him would cause a problem, namely the 100 hp explosion he'd let off when he dies. Reflex DC 33 for half though, so maybe someone will live.

[Daliena]

Originally posted by butula13:

Killing him would cause a problem, namely the 100 hp explosion he'd let off when he dies. Reflex DC 33 for half though, so maybe someone will live.

.. You make a rather good argument.

Maybe instead he could just screw off, and Graybor shows up and grumbles at you for how he didn't get a chance to use his supposedly-magical toothpick?

[butula13]

I'm on team "Just do a cut scene." If the eyeless broad can yell about how unfair it is that her loser boyfriend finally died, then waltz through numerous threatened areas to jump off a balcony the Balor can yap for a minute, flambe some Crusaders, then get stabbed and disappear without my involvement.

It isn't Kai Leng levels of bad, but it's close.

[The Silver Santana]

Originally posted by butula13:

Killing him would cause a problem, namely the 100 hp explosion he'd let off when he dies. Reflex DC 33 for half though, so maybe someone will live.

That's one protection from fire away from not being an issue. If you can kill him, you can check his tool-tip and figure that out.

[Passier Reis]

Sounds like a bug happening

To my understanding he needs to be at a certain HP level

I actually let the queen and her bois to fight him while I ran off to watch the show

I think if you do too much damage in a short time frame the fight bugs out and the dwarf wont appear