Good team for swine god?

[PMR]

I keep getting my party wiped from this son of a cagna

[Caramirdan]

Arbalest with Rallying Flare cheeses this boss.

[PMR]

Originally posted by Caramirdan:

Arbalest with Rallying Flare cheeses this boss.

Got no arbalests in my roster,guess i'll need to grab one and grind er up

[Norton 360 for Gamers]

Arbalest, Occultist and whoever you want for the remaining spots.

The Arbalest clears stuns and marks with Rallying Flare which will cause the Swine God to use his weaker Wild Flailing attack. The Occultist debuffs the Swine God's damage with Weakening Curse to the point he barely scratches your party.

[foxhound438]

not a fan of the arbelist trick, I prefer MAA+leper or crusader to throw prot buffs on to make the damage basically nothing.

[Panfilo]

Flagellant can also pull marks off allies as well now.

Agreed on other suggestions- either use means to remove marks, or mitigate the swine god's own damage to reduce it down.

[MuzzRK]

Four crusaders!

[Timus]

My favourite Swine God party: ARB + HM + HM + LEP/ABOM. Arbalest for insurance (Rallying Flare) or damage otherwise. Houndmasters each with two +dodge trinkets do only Guard Dog on Arbalest and Leper/Abomination. Leper/Abomination does the main damage. Worked twice for me with amazing success: No single Swine God attack came through.

[SVBB]

Four random shot only arbalests

[The First Vicar]

The classes that I use for the Swine god are

Plague Doctor with Witch's Vial and Blasphemous Vial
So I just spam Blinding Gas on the Swine god and Wilbur

Occultist with Demon's Cauldron and Cursed Incense
Just keep using Weakening Curse on Swine god so his attacks don't hurt as much

Bounty Hunter with Wounding Helmet and Sun Ring

And then Leper with Fortunate Armlet and Sun Ring

So yeah that's what I use for the Swine god

[Valmar]

You can use a Houndmaster in spite of the Arbalest too.
I recommend Hellion, Bounty Hunter, Occultist and Houndmaster if you dont have Arbalest. BH and HM can use the mark damage skills too.

[Caramirdan]

If you're going to use the Rallying Flare, don't forget to switch it "on" before the boss's room, like I did. Yeah, I fully intended to cheese it, and wound up having to fight him w/o the Flare.

[Trigon (The Trash)]

Last time I used Arbalest with the flare, occultist, HM, and a leper. Mark and weaken the swine, use rallying flare to clear your own marked. Stack on the damage, clock out early for lunch.

[Partyrock]

Originally posted by Timus:

My favourite Swine God party: ARB + HM + HM + LEP/ABOM. Arbalest for insurance (Rallying Flare) or damage otherwise. Houndmasters each with two +dodge trinkets do only Guard Dog on Arbalest and Leper/Abomination. Leper/Abomination does the main damage. Worked twice for me with amazing success: No single Swine God attack came through.

THIS THIS THIS
Easy mode. Use leper to kill him. Clear marked with rallying flare. Guard Arb and Lep with your two HMs. Only thing that can trip you up is if Wilbur imposes his marks right after Arb's turn. But you can speed her up with blindshot between rallying fire necessities, so don't forget your blindfire.

[Butt Goblin]

Swine God is very straightforward:

- The amount of damage he deals is simply unsustainable, so you need a way of preventing that. 99% of the time that's going to be Arbalest removing marks, since you can't really stun the God and damage debuffs can't really offset the massive damage bonus vs. marked that Swine God gets. The alternative is to put a tanky hero and a MaA in the frontlines and have them soak up the AoE while the MaA guards whoever gets marked that isn't a frontliner. Flagellant kind of works, but a lot of damage will get focused on to him. That can get kind of risky since a crit from Swine God (who usually acts last) will drop him to 0 health instantly while Wilbur will virtually always act first on the next round and gets two actions that could force a deathblow check.

- Wilbur can stun, so don't rely on one healer or you could lose all your healing if they get stunned (which can easily lead to character death).

- Don't use Riposte because it can kill Wilbur.

If you can do all of that, you basically just beat the snot out of him until he dies.

[RopeDrink]

No sense in listing classes so I'll just give what works:

You can bleed/plague him to death.
You can debuff him to the point of negligible damage intake.
Rallying Flare removes Swine's ability to use his nastiest attack.
You can typically burst him down with or without the above provided you have enough sustain.

I am not one to advocate 'defensive' strategies as those tend to allow more damage through than just slapping the damn thing, eg. unreliable dodge, or wasting turns adding prot to your team hoping to out-soak damage, as this will NOT prevent crit-stress and boss fights are not the best means of winning a stress-war. As (typically) the last fight of the dungeon, it's nice to go in and dunk him with minimal stress.

There are plenty of methods that just flat-out kill the boss and do not involve trying to cheat the risk of taking damage. Rallying Flare is the exception as it does both - removes bosses ability to hammer out massive damage (and can remove stuns from Wilbur) allowing everyone else to just truck the Swine down. It is also a minor stress-heal. It really is the ultimate cheese.

Flagellant's Anti-Mark (as someone suggested) is not the same as he simply transfers mark to himself and thus invites himself to eat tremendous damage. He can only reliably do this once or twice if allowed to self-heal via Exanguinate, but if you keep relying on this, the anti-healing stacks up and it becomes riskier with repetition. He will also be unable to transfer mark if he has to worry about his own HP at the same time, and so both he and someone else may then start eating massive damage while you are forced into a recovery issue. In short, DON'T do that instead of Rallying Flare - it's a nonsensical comparison.