The "Demonic influence" event.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Any way to save your apprentice during the "Demonic influence" event without fighting the demon lord? Feels like its a bit much to ask for ~70 turns* into the game**.

*The event triggered very early and i think it was on a ~60 turn countdown when i first got it

**At least for me, i would not be surprised if someone better at the game can do it easy peasy

[Kaysoky]

I'm also curious, but I'll probably find out more soon. It took me 45 turns just to make my way to the demon lord (he spawned a decent distance away, with a Circle Mage in between).

I'm tempted to just wait it out to get the achievement though :D

[oddball]

I think I'm gonna lose mine too, I sent a stack down to fight it only to discover the demon and his boys all do white damage and resist death

Not great if you're a necromancer!

[Killer29687]

Dunno if he’s the same demon lord etc as greed aka the one in the middle of the map… I apparently wasn’t strong enough for him yet but I still fought him… the thing is he was the only one and the tome spider that lets you cast cocoon means you can lock him down >.> in other words bro didn’t have a chance to beat me, zero damage done to me.

Tldr if the demon lord doesn’t have unstoppable use cocoon to lock him down and kill him easily.

[Kaysoky]

This demon lord is guarded by two phantom images of himself. I haven't fought him yet though, so I don't know what that means.

[KingTiger78]

The phantoms are slightly weaker, one of the problems with him is his and the phantom's damage will keep changing through the fight so one moment he might be doing low damage and the next he could swap to your weakness and start murdering. The other one is he spawns in a different spawn each playthrough. Example, my first time with it he spawned all the way in the top left hand of the map. The second one he spawned by the Orc city.

[oddball]

Originally posted by Kaysoky:

This demon lord is guarded by two phantom images of himself. I haven't fought him yet though, so I don't know what that means.

Yeah I rolled that one too. They dropped three aoe white damage spells on me, battle done in seconds.

[oddball]

OK, I traded an entire stack to get it done but it's done. Basically I bumrushed the main guy and killed him, then downed the other two. Half my units couldn't even damage them so they just soaked the enemy's AP. Pretty awful but I got some mind box so that's nice.

[Kaysoky]

I just fought him too, but since I had a mostly human army, plus summoned Ashen One fodder, he did like 10 damage to me.

[Kaysoky]

Interesting, so if the counter expires, the apprentice dies and the demon lord also disappears.

[Grognerd]

If the Demon Lord gets him, can he be resurrect via spell? Because there is no way I'm make it in time, impossible.

[Kaysoky]

Nope. The hero just straight up dies. The lodge disappears too.

[Grognerd]

Here's another question regarding a different sort of "Demonic Influence."

What can be done about all the red pentacles all over the map? I'm having a very difficult in my current "Balanced" game because Demonic Influence is sucking half the available resources off the ENTIRE map, and its become intolerable. And I haven't received a clue yet from the game on how to counter this. VERY frustrating.

[Kaysoky]

When you destroy the demon lord in the area, their debuff on resources will also disappear.

[Rohen]

huh, looks like the event was bugged for me, just finished the game as demonologist and checked the hidden achievements i missed and apparently there should have been a descision regarding my apprentice and a demon lord, but i never got it, so i missed out on both achievments and will have to save scumm in a second run to get 100% sad.

[=(FGR)=Sentinel]

For me I feel like I cheated to kill him almost. I threw a stack containing a unit with an Arbiter at him and it felt like the demon and its duplicates didn't want to use melee attacks. Once they ran out of focus they kind of just sat there and let my melee units kill them.