Strategy for beating shades

[Flatbuffer]

Anyone?

[Flatbuffer]

Nevermind, I've discovered that burning damage is quite effective

[Worm🐛]

So just dual wield torches on my Barbarian?

edit: the torches did not help.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Worm:

So just dual wield torches on my Barbarian?

I can already imagine it - The party spots a haunt in the shadows. Suddenly the Barbarian breaks out two torches and charges it screaming like a madman. Can ghosts become panicked? Hehe

[Flatbuffer]

If you manage to hit them with a cone of fire from aloth you'll see them crumble pretty fast. just put Aloth in a doorway and watch them all burn.

[Hound Archon]

I put my fighter in the doorway with the chanter and mage hanging behind, then spawn skeletons to flank the shadows in the room the fighter's blocking and eventually wear them down with almost no damage taken.

If the buggers try to teleport out and go after my mage, he kills them with chilling grasp and a little help from the chanter.

[Wolfgang421]

If you have a priest with burning radiance, it helps. Even normal radiance is a small DoT on them. AoE fire attacks work well, otherwise, you might want to specialise a fighter/paladin in fighting vessels.

[Worm🐛]

Yeah I just fire aoe the ♥♥♥♥ out of my poor frontline now.

[Flo]

Shadows are resistant to physical dmg (it reads "MIN" in every line in the log, I guess your weapons deal their minimum dmg). Gotta use magic indeed.

My personal exploit for everything is pull with crossbow, run away, when they drop aggro just grab the closest one and he will be alone.
I don't think mobs should drop aggro in that game.

[*****Tuxer]

Hell that all sounds very dandy but I have 3 of them in a room that is no square has the door offset and only 1 character can enter at a time. How the frag do you tackle 3 of them at once when you only have Aloth with a distance flame weapon? Gotta admit though I am loving the challenge ;)