How do you get to the necromancer?

[Cross]

I've been trying to kill this guy for four days now. Every time I enter there's at least 11 rooms. The last time I entered I got into three fights moving two rooms which just about killed 3/4 of my party, so I had to withdraw. My hellion and crusader missed, each mind you, 4 times in a row with break thru and zealous accusation. Getting tired of the going back to town and taking the four hours to get the team back up, to go back in, get my ass beat within six rooms to leave to repeat. every time I go in, in every room there is a fight. Sometimes more. And I guess there's more than one necromancer level and this is the first. I think I'm just getting ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by rngesus.

All my characters had level two weapons and armor and some decent trinks. Always went in with (in order from back/front) plague doctor/vestal/hellion/crusader. Don't know what I'm doing wrong so I deleted the save and am starting over.

[Beby]

Alright so it depends on the room setup. Generally you should attempt to scout out the other rooms so you can take the path of least resistance to not weaken your party. As far as missing goes. Do you have any negative symptoms on your party? and have you been upgrading their abilities?

[Baywatch]

Every time I've went up against the necro the map has basically been a single long linear path. My advice would be to stock up properly beforehand, don't skimp on anything you think you may need. Stuns are very effective against almost all enemies in the early levels so build a team with a leveled healer and a lot of stuns. Plague Doctors in particular are a very good choice.

[ACS36]

you must be doing something wrong in respect to your general strategy. bosses are all medium maps so you can camp once, bring a lot of supplies.

honestly, I never had trouble getting to any of the bosses on any of the difficulties. I'm able to explore every room and hallway before I even kill the boss, majority of the time.

[LowDownDirtyGamer]

Sounds like you did have some bad luck there. The team you mentioned is put together well, have good synergy together. You mentioned that their gear was leveled up, what about their skills and resolve level? Upgrading your skills to level two isn't really necessary for the first level bosses but it helps. I do strongly recommend making sure all you characters are resolve level two going into those fights however.

While getting bad RNG happens, a large part of the game is being able to deal and recuperate from these bad situations. After the third room getting beat down like that maybe you should have camped to get your health back up and buff your accuracy and lower stress.

Also while AOE attacks are powerful they won't just win the game for you. You need to make good use of stun skill and know which enemy in any given group is the biggest threat to you and try to shut them down each round.

Have two crossbow guys in the back? Take out the two weaker skeletons in the front with direct damage attcks in the first round. This makes the crossbow guys essentially useless since now they can only jab at you. Have one of those female occultists in that back? Try to stun lock or use backrow attcks to eliminate her fast.

While it seems like you can get deatroyed by RNG at any moment, the fact is that your decisions leading up and following bad rolls determine how well you will do more than luck will.

Now having said all that, it is true that sometimes you can just get royally screwed and watch your party disintergrate without you having done anything wrong. These moments are few and far between however.

I hope this advice helps you fight back the darkness. :)

[Cross]

No negative symptoms effecting acc. Checked after the second round of misses. Was having plague doctor stun the two in the back. Crusader started missing with smite when I had him switch to that, and the hellion was missing with iron swan before I had her try breakthru because I figure attacking multiple targets means better chance of hitting. No that last fight just didn't go well. And camping doesn't do anything, because camping for me is always a sure sign I won't make it through a dungeon because either 1) I get ambushed when I camp and the fight completely negates anything I just healed or 2) I fight rng-esus and his apostles right afterwards who crit & dodge so much that, again, my hp and stress go back to and often end up worse than they were pre-camp. *beats head against a brick wall*

As far as skill upgrading goes, I didn't have any upgraded, so maybe that will be the thing that makes the difference. Hopefully. And hopefully I don't upgrade a characters skills just to have them bite it.

[Brambo]

Looks like you had bad RNG. Went in with Crusader, Grave Robber, Bounty Hunter, and a vestal. All level 1 with full upgrades.

I canmped and used resist stress buffs like the Crusaders "Unshakeable Leader". And the Vestal's "Bless" for +10 ACC and Dodge on my Crusader.

On the fight I used the Crusader to 1 shot the minions while the rest focus fires on the Necromancer or healing. That's all I did.

[Da Butcha]

The Necromancer is a level 3 dungeon amiright? Level up your skills and equipment more!