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Garrow Jul 19, 2018 @ 9:12pm
how to beat the hag?
i keep trying to beat the hag but end up dieing....i always go to the boss fight with no stress and full health yet i can't beat it, ive been using my best team but still cant get past
All lvl 5 champions
Vestel
Crusador
Hellion
Highwayman
Last edited by Garrow; Jul 19, 2018 @ 9:17pm
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LaserGuy Jul 19, 2018 @ 9:42pm 
Use a different team. Crusader in particular is best for this fight. HWM isn't great either if he gets moved out of position.

Ignore the pot. Focus fire the boss.
Dan_Dastardly Jul 19, 2018 @ 10:45pm 
What happened when you fought her? What did you do / what were your tactics? Without sharing what went wrong, when, and how, it's difficult to provide constructive feedback.

The accepted strategy is to simply ignore whoever is in the pot and go after the Hag, either with bleed DoTs, or with characters who can consistently hit the back row, such as Helion (w/ Iron Swan), Arbalest, and Houndmaster.
Reef Jul 19, 2018 @ 11:33pm 
Originally posted by Dan_Dastardly:
What happened when you fought her? What did you do / what were your tactics? Without sharing what went wrong, when, and how, it's difficult to provide constructive feedback.

The accepted strategy is to simply ignore whoever is in the pot and go after the Hag, either with bleed DoTs, or with characters who can consistently hit the back row, such as Helion (w/ Iron Swan), Arbalest, and Houndmaster.

i would suggest not to take the helion, she suffle them around too frequant from relaying on a hellion on position 1, beside that, +1
Last edited by Reef; Jul 19, 2018 @ 11:37pm
A mark party works fine
Timus Jul 20, 2018 @ 4:54am 
Arbalest, Abomination, Hellion, Houndmaster, Graverobber, Jester (with Finale) are some of the heroes that are good for the fight. Just make sure you have enough firepower to hit the back rows even with one of the heroes gone. Positioning matters a bit, which isn't a real surprise.
Originally posted by LaserGuy:
... Crusader in particular is best for this fight. ...
You probably meant "isn't the best"? He's the worst choice in this comp. The others are kind of okay.
Originally posted by Reef:
... i would suggest not to take the helion, she suffle them around too frequant from relaying on a hellion on position 1 ...
The Hellion is good for the Hag fights. The Hag doesn't shuffe heroes (apart from putting one in the pot, which you should ignore anyways). Besides, the Hellion can hit her even from rank 2 and 3 with "If It Bleeds".
No One Jul 20, 2018 @ 5:53am 
A hellion with +bleed is utterly murderous to the hag. Good for the rest of the dungeon too.
SolGloom Jul 20, 2018 @ 6:30am 
Crusader's Holy Lance only works when he's in pos 3 & 4. You want heroes capable of attacking the Hag from any positions. Don't bring heroes with skill sets that cannot target pos 3 & 4.

Originally posted by Reef:
i would suggest not to take the helion, she suffle them around too frequant from relaying on a hellion on position 1, beside that, +1

Hellion with Iron Swan and If It Bleeds can reach the Hag.
Dire Wolf Jul 20, 2018 @ 8:42am 
I think she's pretty easy to be honest, and I do hit the pot. If your guy gets to 0 hp coming out of the pot and eats an unlucky meat tenderizer he can die. The hag doesn't do that much dmg to the party so you don't have to burn her down super fast. Let the pot tick a couple times though cus your guy won't be to zero yet, then hit it hard with your melee heroes. Usually one guy can kill it.

I found arbalest, vestal, bounty hunter, hellion very easy, or you can go arbalest, vestal, hound master, bounty hunter but your hound can only harry if he gets shuffled to 1st position. All those guys can hit the hag, use bounty hunter to mark since he can't hit her with bounty the mark is to buff the arbalest. If you have wulfs trophy she does a TON of damage, I crit for like 50. You can use occultist and mark with him but hag has aoe so I prefer vestal.
DeadpoetC Jul 20, 2018 @ 9:15am 
I think that as long as ALL of your party com can reach 3-4 then it's fine. I don't really use DOT on Hag kinda focus on raw power (oh wait I did bring Flag LUL)
RopeDrink Jul 20, 2018 @ 1:03pm 
Basically, bleeds. Or burst. Hag is the type of boss who can die in two rounds of burst - otherwise you can just laugh at her bleed to death. Either strategy can be watered depending on who she pots, but her HP is drastically lower compared to others because she's designed to be primarily fought with 3 heroes.

It's not uncommon for me to just not bother taking a Healer and heading right to her with 4 DPS. Assuming you get there, she just melts. It is only difficult if you prioritize pot. Seriously, don't bother. There's no need to.
Skinny Pete Jul 20, 2018 @ 2:07pm 
Originally posted by RopeDrink:
It's not uncommon for me to just not bother taking a Healer and heading right to her with 4 DPS. Assuming you get there, she just melts. It is only difficult if you prioritize pot. Seriously, don't bother. There's no need to.

This. I usually turn on a couple camp healing skills if I run into Skivers and the like on the way. If not and the witch is tough enough to damage me, I use it after the witch. If not, I use it while or after mopping up the rest of the level, if I do that at all.
Valmar Jul 27, 2018 @ 1:17pm 
Ignore the boss and focus hag. Your heroes need to deal damage and reach the back. Don't use crusader or leper etc. Use something like hellion, shieldbreaker, occultist, arbalest, basically whatever. You can use marks too. It's easy if you ignore the pot and do high damage with your team.
landscape Jul 27, 2018 @ 4:25pm 
arba occ bh hellion (fourth left first right) one time vs the lv5 hag even got a 1 turn kill but that was lucky. occ marked arba crit hellion crit with her camp crit skill and she was down to 10 health and i made her bleed with bh range atk for 5 health per tic and she had 2 turns left on turn 1 so she died the sec she tried to atk a second time. it was beautiful.
steelAndRhubarbDev Jul 30, 2018 @ 10:56am 
Just bring backline DMG, Flag is a good idea since his rain of sorrows contributes a lot of bleed dps as well as being able to heal himself and someone else when ur in danger
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