Troll Tyrant!

[Yxklyx]

OK things just got real with this adventure. Someone else suggested to go in with 2 dwarf warriors and 1 dwarf priest. Makes sense with the Storges. This is the first adventure I've come across where the characters going in matter.

[Flaxative]

Troll Tyrant is oft-regarded the hardest adventure in the game. Good luck!

[Sentient_Toaster]

I've beat it... once, and haven't retried since then.

I used --

a human priest, there for buffs and nimbus mostly (human, for Perfect Command)
a dwarf wizard, pretty heavily loaded (arcane burst, volcano, teleports, gust of wind, wall of fire...)
a dwarf warrior

The warrior's loadout changed the most between maps, with the first being extremely defensive (I used two Blocking Maces, a Parrying Buckler, Bubble helmet, *and* Ewix's) because you really don't want a warrior to be succesfully hit by a rust monster's attacks. For the third map, he had an unusual number of chops, and the fourth map saw him bring out Xek's armor (I don't have the Softener, but a 2x Cushioning + 1x Reliable Mail ain't bad!).

With the storges, what I found that worked was backing up against a wall, throwing volcanos and walls of fire, and tossing Bless so I didn't incinerate my own party. The warrior chopped, the wizard hurled arcane bursts when there was enough lava (as well as tossing the odd boiling armor to remove resistant hide from storges), the priest tried to keep everybody with cards and use nimbus on characters likely to be swarmed.

[Yxklyx]

Thanks for the info - will try some new tactics then. I took the free level 18 party that comes with the other expansion and had no idea what I could do against the Storges - I think I'll wait and go in with level 20 characters since I heard the final battle is insane.

[Sentient_Toaster]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=520793091
is a screenshot of my team vs. the storges. Worked reasonably enough, although it's using some high-rarity gear (for instance, the wizard was using Blue Destruction and Mordecai's Staff of Magma -- both legendary).

With the last map... there's five storges; there's the animated weapon "Whorl" -- which is offensively rather nasty at it has both ranged and melee 'punishing' attacks doing N+(3 * cards in your hand); and there' s the Troll King himself, whom as you might guess is both a heavy hitter in melee, and quite tankish between Toughness and Troll Regeneration. You'll definitely face the storges quickly because they'll fly to you, and you want to kill Whorl quickly because Punishing Beam is brutal (and Whorl goes down easier than the Troll King, heh).

The Troll King himself... you can use cushioning armor to reduce damage to five per hit (IIRC, he has no armor-piercing or armor-removing cards); parries and other high-probablity blocks (laser block, bloodied block when already wounded) will help, and Impenetrable Nimbus is guaranteed to work since he has no way to get around that. Purge to remove Troll Regeneration buffs, boiling armor to get rid of Toughness. Impenetrable Nimbus + Savage Curse (on enemy!) can work to encourage the AI to waste additional cards attacking you, but you have to be careful to not leave a character vulnerable to Almighty Bludgeon at the beginning of next turn when the nimbus drops.

[VolOpt]

Pulled this off with a balanced team of elves back when it first released *flex*

[JediMage]

Troll tyrant is 9999 times easier than Black plume though...

[VolOpt]

Ugh that dragon D:
Also (somehow) managed that with a balanced team of elves. To this day I occasionally skip the Loot Fairy, I call those days Black Plume days D:

[Yxklyx]

Well I made it to the last battle but that's as far as I've got. Seems like the last two are all about luck. I've got level 20 Human Priest, Dwarf Wizard, Dwarf Warrior. I've only got 2 Volcano cards but the Storges either run away or have Resistant Hide. I do have armor removal cards but getting everything lined up is mostly luck. Maybe I need to go back later with more Volcano. I don't have a single Cushioning Armor yet. Adventure should be renamed Storge Assault!

[JediMage]

Storges are relatively easy to kill, just get somewhere they cant surround you...

[AbsynthMinded]

Well it is deffinately not entertaining. I havent beat it yet Ive tried off and on for years. It is usually the one that pisses me off enough to not play for months at a time. So tired of adventures that are designed harder than Manticores.