Level 25 Spectres in Wintersun are hard.

[Phil85]

My party is level 11([playing on core) and I keep running into level 17 druid/8 undead spectres. They repeatedly cast sirocco and are extremely hard to hit. Which spells take them down quickly? I have fire and ranged weapons, but that's not working well.

[dwarner]

Originally posted by Phil85:

My party is level 11(playing on core) and I keep running into level 17/8 spectres. They repeatedly cast sirocco and are extremely hard to hit. Which spells take them down quickly? I have fire and ranged weapons, but that's not working well.

It's the same one.

Don't take his stuff.

[Phil85]

Originally posted by dwarner:

Originally posted by Phil85:

My party is level 11(playing on core) and I keep running into level 17/8 spectres. They repeatedly cast sirocco and are extremely hard to hit. Which spells take them down quickly? I have fire and ranged weapons, but that's not working well.

It's the same one.

Don't take his stuff.

Too late. now he's all over the place. I'd guess using lightening or something other than fire would work. When I first entered Wintersun I took a whip. Is he hostile forever after that?

[dwarner]

Originally posted by Phil85:

Originally posted by dwarner:

It's the same one.

Don't take his stuff.

Too late. now he's all over the place. I'd guess using lightening or something other than fire would work. When I first entered Wintersun I took a whip. Is he hostile forever after that?

Yep

[Tao314zdin]

Spread out and let him hit only a single char with the spell.

The spirit seem to target easier to hit party memeber (in my case it was Ember) so you can use that fact - place that member further on back (mb also spread the rest a bit so AI would not change priority for grouped up chars, no idea if it does that), the spirit will walk into the rest of your squad where you kill it.

[wendigo211]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1184370/discussions/0/2961670087549846659/

There is a finite number of them and you do get a reward for defeating them, albeit a crappy one.

Edit: As for killing them, ghost touch and undead bane weapons help if you have them. The Paladin's Bless Weapon spell should be good. Otherwise you can try dropping summons that are either immune to magic or have good SR and running away until it exhausts its spells. Most enemies have a finite number of spells and, while their spellbooks refresh on a reload, you can exhaust their spells and finish them afterwards.

[Phil85]

Thanks for the replies. I killed him 3-4 times, but this last fight with two back to back siroccos , and 3 treants was rough. I can just reload the zone and not take the stupid whip, since the reward is garbage. The rest of the zone has been cake compared to him.
As a side note, it's interesting that the devs train us to loot everything up to this point, then punish the behavior this one time.

[darkholyPL]

They give you time to put it back, and warn you.
But that aside, if you just take the whip as the last thing you do there, and then come back at later act, they will not spawn anymore. At least that's how it worked for me.

[dwarner]

Originally posted by wendigo211:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1184370/discussions/0/2961670087549846659/

There is a finite number of them and you do get a reward for defeating them, albeit a crappy one.

Edit: As for killing them, ghost touch and undead bane weapons help if you have them. The Paladin's Bless Weapon spell should be good. Otherwise you can try dropping summons that are either immune to magic or have good SR and running away until it exhausts its spells. Most enemies have a finite number of spells and, while their spellbooks refresh on a reload, you can exhaust their spells and finish them afterwards.

Wow, that’s cool. What is the reward btw?

[Grubbs008]

Shoot em with an avadacadabra

[wendigo211]

Originally posted by dwarner:

Wow, that’s cool. What is the reward btw?

700 XP and I guess you get to keep the whip.

[mudakonn]

Whip needs some special type of wielder - otherwise it is just terrible. I found Daeran riding his mount to be a passable one. After summoning you could deactivate the whip but yeah...

[dwarner]

Originally posted by mudakonn:

Whip needs some special type of wielder - otherwise it is just terrible. I found Daeran riding his mount to be a passable one. After summoning you could deactivate the whip but yeah...

Freedom of Movement cancels his Stagger from the Curse so it should cancel the downside on the whip as well.

[Phil85]

What are the specs of the whip?

[mudakonn]

Originally posted by Phil85:

What are the specs of the whip?

You can summon Baphomet and Deskari once per game but if you do you lose the game;)

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Phil85:

I killed him 3-4 times, but this last fight with two back to back siroccos , and 3 treants was rough.

Those treants have extremely low reflex save even on high difficulty. I put selective grease all over the field so those treants wouldn't be able to do anything and waited prone till the end, then I cast animate dead 4 times and buffed them with protection against fire. When battle started, skeletons attacked one of treants that was prone, spectre cast sirocco on my skeletons and my whole party concentrated on spectre and killed him in 3-4 rounds. Then everything that was left is to finish unconscious treans off.