Getting steamrolled by drake on Endless Paths level 5

[jenesuispasbavard]

[Spoilers follow] So after I killed Maerwald and was asked as part of the Master Below quest to explore the Endless Paths below the keep of Caed Nua, I took the well 'shortcut' at level 2 to jump straight down to level 5. Now I'm faced with a drake and several Xaurip skirmishers and a Xaurip champion that simply destroy my team. I can't even get past it on easy, and because I just quicksaved and my autosave is also after I climb down the well (I can't climb back up), my previous save is over two hours old. What do?

[Ktarl]

I am in the exact same boat. Trying to slowly save scum my way back up. (if you go right instead of into the drakes chamber you only need to fight some Xaurip but even that is dicey and my party isn't able to disarm any of the traps. I made it back to level 3 of the dungeon but I've got a long way to go. Is there a way to fast travel or get out of situations like these because my latest save is 2+ hours of progress as well.

[lethrington]

Unfortunately the nasty drake is meant for a higher level group. He almost got my party and we were all level 7s. Your only change of getting out of there is to the right. Beyond the drake is only a path further down, and it only gets tougher from there. Either fight your way back up through the Xaurip or reload much earlier, because that drake is a toughy. In fact, as far as I've gone, the dungeon has gotten so brutal I'm planning to leave and level up some more. I'm scared to even think about what the boss is going to be.

[jenesuispasbavard]

Originally posted by Ktarl:

I am in the exact same boat. Trying to slowly save scum my way back up. (if you go right instead of into the drakes chamber you only need to fight some Xaurip but even that is dicey and my party isn't able to disarm any of the traps. I made it back to level 3 of the dungeon but I've got a long way to go. Is there a way to fast travel or get out of situations like these because my latest save is 2+ hours of progress as well.

Omg didn't even realise there was a door to the right. But that's the way back up isn't it? The way forward (to complete the mission) is to kill the drake and xaurips and go through? There isn't an Escape Rope in this game as far as I can tell, or fast travel.

[jenesuispasbavard]

Originally posted by lethrington:

Unfortunately the nasty drake is meant for a higher level group. He almost got my party and we were all level 7s. Your only change of getting out of there is to the right. Beyond the drake is only a path further down, and it only gets tougher from there. Either fight your way back up through the Xaurip or reload much earlier, because that drake is a toughy. In fact, as far as I've gone, the dungeon has gotten so brutal I'm planning to leave and level up some more. I'm scared to even think about what the boss is going to be.

Oh ah so I'm supposed to come back and take care of the Master Below much later in the game when my party's stronger? I wish the game had a recommended level for quests. I've been sitting here wasting my time.

[Ktarl]

I managed to make it out by going to the right, then you need to navigate thru the levels (one of trolls and ooze then the ogres)avoiding as many fights as you can. Managed to get past the ogres only having to fight two of them and then I was back up in familiar territory. Got a timely campfire supplies too but I had 3 people including my main on deaths door. Good luck with your attempt.

[jenesuispasbavard]

Originally posted by Ktarl:

I managed to make it out by going to the right, then you need to navigate thru the levels (one of trolls and ooze then the ogres)avoiding as many fights as you can. Managed to get past the ogres only having to fight two of them and then I was back up in familiar territory. Got a timely campfire supplies too but I had 3 people including my main on deaths door. Good luck with your attempt.

Thanks, I just made it back out too, had to kill some several ooze and ogres on the way. It was hard even on easy. What a disappointment the last hour has been...

[Milunay]

Thanks for the report, it's good to know. ;)

[Lightning]

Yeah this drake is a pain, all my heroes are lvl 5 atm and cant even do anything agains the mass horde of kobalds whatever they are, and the drake is just to much for me atm too. I'll come back later around lvl 10 maby cause someone said its a tough time even with lvl 7s

[Zalbag88]

Drake is true pain but I got him down on lvl 6. Simple tactic works pull only few. I mean take rest of your people on the other side of the door on right of the blood pool. And then select one person to pull Drake and make sure to give him some speed buff like potion. Using this trick I managed to kill at first 2 champions and one skirmisher on first run and then on second Drake and High priest. Thou Drake is pain in the ass still. Managed to kill two of my team before he went down. Rest of the mobs I finished off one Drake was down.

[Skyfall]

I tooke the drake at 4. Use a 2 fighter and ranger pet tanking team. One took the drake, the other the kobalds. Once they clustered in on my tank I gave the wizard the okay to just go nuts. Dropped burning wounds on them all then both my wizard and priest threw out a lot of AOE. We had a hard time hitting the drake and burned up a lot prayers trying ot keep our accuracy high.

[Saintanik]

I beat the drake with a group of lev 4's by parking them all in the doorway to right, then pulling the drake plus a couple of others, ended up fighting the drake in the doorway, after killing him, went and cleaned up the others.

Then went down to the next level and got wiped in about 5 seconds.. so, yeah, better to just wait for a higher level group

[Lightning]

yeah I finally noticed that I pulled all the little guys and the drake to the doorway and threw fireballs at them with a lvl 5 party with 2 wizards, was alot easier to do then lol

[Zaltys]

Originally posted by Ktarl:

I managed to make it out by going to the right, then you need to navigate thru the levels (one of trolls and ooze then the ogres)avoiding as many fights as you can.

Talk about doing it the hard way... There's an exit on the drake level. Just take the third set of stairs, the one with the map icon.

[Boink]

Drakes are vulnerable to the spell "slick"; spam it.

[Lightning]

Jeese, Fampyres are annoying as heck