How to make the final battle on hard easy. (low spoiler)

[Vynzs]

Just leaving this here for anybody having trouble for the last battle, so that they don't overfarm like I did (got everybody lvl 90+ and full lategame gear). Also you might not want to read this as it might make the last battle too easy.

Let's start with the most important part :
Your main dps skill is going to be the crossbow barrage (+focus) from Eskandar. Give him the full dragon scale armor, ultimate weapon, and he'll have something like 1000-1200 dex. Use the passive skills that boost crossbow damage based on accuracy and you're golden. I think with 1200dex and some buffs/debuffs he only needs 4 or 5 rounds to kill the last boss.

For the defense, your main guy is Kesh. Give him some agility, and use his divine shield on eskandar or himself. His meditation skill should be a full heal for everybody and it also removes a debuff. Then you have his Last Stand + Divine wake combo to reset the fight if needed. Finally, if you have no need for heals, use either aura guide on Esk, or enhance chi on himself.
Oh and don't forget to give him his passive that allows him to survive hits with 1 HP.

For Soha, use mage speciallisation, and use her to heal/revive people/debuff the ennemies.

For Ingrid, use her ankle shot to make the first 2 phases a piece of cake. Her turrets are good too (in fact they made everything up to the last boss easy) but they usually won't focus who you want them to. Nevertheless, they can tank a few hits, so you can use them for this.

For Lucian, make him as tanky as possible so he's able to stand on the frontline besides Kesh. He has nice damage with fire speciallisation, but you'll usually get counterattacked so attacking usually isn't worth it. I think I used Inspire, Hold the line and his stagger attack.


AND THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT PART I ALMOST FORGOT :
Use the Behemot fang and 1 or 2 stagger boosting augments on Eskandar. Each hit from the crossbow barrage will generate some stagger. This combined with the ankle shot from Ingrid will give most of the bosses no time at all to act, except when there are 3 ennemies at once.

[Vynzs]

Also there's a small bug with the crafting system.
When crafting an item, once you have selected all the items, you can switch to salvage mode, and salvage the item that are being used for the item you're crafting, and they will still be selected once you go back to forging mode.
However there are some conditions required for it to work :

- Only good when you use the last of your item while crafting. It will show as, let's say, auraweave cloth x 0 while salvaging, but still genrate grandmaster schematics.
- Sometimes doesn't work if you already have some of the items being generated. So you should use all of your grandmaster schamatics before using this bug.
- Doesn''t work if your conscience won't let you use bug exploits. However this problem should fix itself after spending some time farming for the last battle ^^.

[Orphan Martian]

Sorry to rez an old post, but I found this guide extremely helpful for fighting the last boss on hard mode, especially getting the most damage out of Esk.

That being said, no matter how much damage I do, Soha keeps wiping me with back-to-back possess/wrath combos. Kesh can’t even keep people alive with his full party rez. Any advice on how to stay alive long enough to get my party back in action? I have all legendary gear and great augments, so right now I’m just farming gold and boosting everyone’s stats as much as possible.