Beating Mephisto

[reidj062]

So I can't seem to beat him...on any difficulty. I'm level 17. His first volcano storm kills Nenio and nearly takes out the entire party. I need a strategy beside "start over completely from scratch and plan out every step of every character in a spreadsheet while consulting an online build list to make sure everything is sufficiently min-maxed."

[swordfish]

Is this dlc? I do not even remember him on my second walkthrough

[ProestUnicorn]

There are vidos all over Youtube, if You're asking specifically for Your party, then We cannot help without knowing what You got.

[Darcnexil]

Yep the most difficult fight for me in this game. All I can say he was impossible to beat in TpT. When I stop fghting him in that mode I beat him after a few try.

Swordfish
I think it's a boss only for those who choose Azata path.

[swordfish]

Originally posted by Darcnexil:

Yep the most difficult fight for me in this game. All I can say he was impossible to beat in TpT. When I stop fghting him in that mode I beat him after a few try.

Swordfish
I think it's a boss only for those who choose Azata path.

Thanks babe

[Drake]

Originally posted by swordfish:

Is this dlc? I do not even remember him on my second walkthrough

You need to beat mephisto (you can also avoid the battle with some high checks) as part of the quest in chapter 5 if you want to switch from aeon/azata to devil.

[forkofspite]

Originally posted by reidj062:

So I can't seem to beat him...on any difficulty. I'm level 17.

Level 17 seems a bit low. You can delay for awhile - don't head to the appropriate place (i.e. your court for Azata or near Kenabres for Aeon.)

Buff as much as you can - fire protection won't help against his spells, but they might help against the summoned hell hounds.. If you are on Aeon and don't have the opportunity to buff, take a different route. At the last world map node before Kenabres, head right rather than continuing to Kenabres.

[Gastberend]

Chapter 5 is complicated, If you dont have a proper party with synergies you will not be able to finish the game due to a huge difficulty spike if your party is not properly made. Sadly you might have to go to the drawing board.
That said fire spells can be countered by communal resistance spells, plus protection from law and evil.

Also keep in mind that casters tend to be glass cannons, have you added mirror image? or blur?

[HydraLord]

Hi there.

Let me know these:
1.Azata or aeon?
2.Have nature spells?

Have fun

[azaris]

Originally posted by Gastberend:

That said fire spells can be countered by communal resistance spells, plus protection from law and evil.

Also keep in mind that casters tend to be glass cannons, have you added mirror image? or blur?

None of that does literally anything against Mephistopheles.

[dataseer21]

I don't remember this fight that well. I remember I was just trying to power through it. I went through on story because I didn't want to bother. I remember it took a while because you can't get buffed before hand. I don't remember what I did other than my cleric had to spam mass heal over and over again. Cleric saved the day. Heal spells too along with mass heal are good too. People look down on combat healing for some reason but I think that it does alright in many circumstances. Daeran might be better in this regard than sosiel assuming you just auto leveled them.

Oh remember not to have your party be exhausted in the fight. I was the first time. So I rested up before hand.

He does a lot of damage though. Even on story mephisto brought nenio down to half health.

[forkofspite]

Originally posted by dataseer21:

I remember it took a while because you can't get buffed before hand.

Originally posted by forkofspite:

If you are on Aeon and don't have the opportunity to buff, take a different route. At the last world map node before Kenabres, head right rather than continuing to Kenabres.

[reidj062]

Originally posted by HydraLord:

Hi there.

Let me know these:
1.Azata or aeon?
2.Have nature spells?

Have fun

Azata. I don't have nature spells. Like I said, the problem is he does an insane amount of damage before I get a chance to hit him and I can't reduce his fire damage via spells.

I don't have Ember in the party. Main party member is an alchemist. I'll check out videos.

[Gracey Face]

Originally posted by dataseer21:

I don't remember this fight that well. I remember I was just trying to power through it. I went through on story because I didn't want to bother. I remember it took a while because you can't get buffed before hand. I don't remember what I did other than my cleric had to spam mass heal over and over again. Cleric saved the day. Heal spells too along with mass heal are good too. People look down on combat healing for some reason but I think that it does alright in many circumstances. Daeran might be better in this regard than sosiel assuming you just auto leveled them.

Oh remember not to have your party be exhausted in the fight. I was the first time. So I rested up before hand.

He does a lot of damage though. Even on story mephisto brought nenio down to half health.

People look down on combat healing because heals don't do much numerically. You are except in very specific edge cases such as preventing a character with an aura from getting incapped, always objectively better off putting out damage than healing.

[kodama]

Nothing in this game is immune to Bane of Spirit cheese. I habitually give it to Lann, as due to how I build him, he's basically granted to win Initiative. Woljif usually rolls higher than enemies as well. So I convert everyone's damage to force (free actions), postpone the rest of Lann's turn past Woljif, then use Quickened (rod) Mass Dimmension Door to teleport party next to the target and proceed to shred it to pieces. There you go, Mephisto's dead before his turn. I play on Core.

[kodama]

* All of my martials have Outflank + Combat Reflexes and Woljiff and Lann are bound to trigger tones of AoOs.