wtf is this braccus rex fight

[bearsboi]

most of the game has been ok so far in terms on difficulty. the braccus rex fight starts, he one shots 2 of my companions, the 2 heroes are both poisoned and burning and almost dead, i tried reloading and tried different positions, same thing happens each time. what am i missing

[Highrule -1]

Nothing. That's just part of the fight.

With enough distance between your team members, you can send one of them forward to take the initial hit and then resurrect. You can also stack fire resistance high enough so that you can actually tank the hit.

[bearsboi]

Originally posted by Highrule -1:

Nothing. That's just part of the fight.

With enough distance between your team members, you can send one of them forward to take the initial hit and then resurrect. You can also stack fire resistance high enough so that you can actually tank the hit.

dumb design

[EolSunder]

well what level are you. That should be the last major fight of that starting area so you should be level 9-10 when you are doing it. He is in there and will summon 3 other minions when the fight starts. Have your group behind the entry door, send 1 person up.

What i usually do. Wait until he walks to the back wall away from the door you come in at. Then hit him with an AOE spell, which will hit him but will keep you out of combat with him. I usually use an archer with Splintered arrow for max range. This will cause him to summon his 3 henchmen but he is too far to enter combat. back your archer (or a mage will work) back to the door.

At this point you aren't in combat with anything, but him and his 3 henchmen are in the room now. Stay safe out of the room and you can lure the enemies to the door easier so you don't have to fight them all at once. This should be a tactic you use most of the game, initializing combat from a distance with a large AOE attack, which will let you gain even more distance from the enemy.

[Highrule -1]

Originally posted by bearsboi:

Originally posted by Highrule -1:

Nothing. That's just part of the fight.

With enough distance between your team members, you can send one of them forward to take the initial hit and then resurrect. You can also stack fire resistance high enough so that you can actually tank the hit.

dumb design

Agreed.

[briarroot]

Originally posted by bearsboi:

most of the game has been ok so far in terms on difficulty. the braccus rex fight starts, he one shots 2 of my companions, the 2 heroes are both poisoned and burning and almost dead, i tried reloading and tried different positions, same thing happens each time. what am i missing

I split my team and keep three of them in the room outside Braccus' lair. I send in the character with the most hit points fully buffed with every potion and spell in my group's inventory. His job is to lure Braccus and get him to attack. He then scampers out of the room back to where the rest of my party is waiting - and gets a heal if necessary. One of the party throws a smoke grenade (or arrow) through the doorway to prevent Braccus or one of his helpers from casting (because they can't see us) so they're forced to come through the door one at a time.

The fight, while still very tough, thus becomes manageable.

I admit that the first time I encountered Braccus my whole team entered his lair and we got wiped. Memo to self: sometimes scouting ahead is advisable. ;-)

[bearsboi]

Originally posted by EolSunder:

well what level are you. That should be the last major fight of that starting area so you should be level 9-10 when you are doing it. He is in there and will summon 3 other minions when the fight starts. Have your group behind the entry door, send 1 person up.

What i usually do. Wait until he walks to the back wall away from the door you come in at. Then hit him with an AOE spell, which will hit him but will keep you out of combat with him. I usually use an archer with Splintered arrow for max range. This will cause him to summon his 3 henchmen but he is too far to enter combat. back your archer (or a mage will work) back to the door.

At this point you aren't in combat with anything, but him and his 3 henchmen are in the room now. Stay safe out of the room and you can lure the enemies to the door easier so you don't have to fight them all at once. This should be a tactic you use most of the game, initializing combat from a distance with a large AOE attack, which will let you gain even more distance from the enemy.

all my characters r lvl 9, i think im just gonna do other stuff gain a couple levels then come back

[Sir Lunchalot]

Divinity is my first cRPG and I chose tactician difficulty.. so I feel your pain. I had the same problem with Braccus. I mean, the initial Meteor Shower is just too much and one time it killed both my main chars and I had to reload without being able to do anything lol
Prepare by having enough resurrection scrolls and falling back so you can focus on the adds. Maybe also use smoke bombs / arrows to prevent sight. It was a long fight but after that the difficulty got more moderate and less frustrating :)

[JudasPhysicist]

I just skipped the fight and overleveled my characters then returned back to kick his ass. Honestly the initial opening barrage is a little too much damage for early game characters. You really need to cheese the crap out of the AI and wonky game mechanics such as sneaking with one character while the others lock the boss into turn based combat.

[foodgeek]

I kept it raining whole time. i shadow hit and run his henchmen w/ranger a couple of times and ran back through the door. Summons held them outside and fought them while I fired through the open doorway. An air elemental (and soon my other summons when henchmen were done) kept Braccus from getting near the door. The air elemental kept teleporting him away and the summons stopped him from getting near the door. He never used his damage spells since he didn't get near my characters. The summons kept dying and I kept replacing them. This whole thing took a looooong time....since my summons didn't hurt him badly. Zombie, fire elemental and spider weren't the best match against him although air elemental was useful. I don't have water elemental. So...eventually...i got bored, and he had 25% health, so I sent my ranger with stunning arrows (which don't do piercing damage) to easily finish the job at long range. Water arrows work too. He never landed a hit on my 4 characters.

[Kvinden]

Bracchus Rex is a boss, that's all. Players are so smug they always want to play at maximum difficulty without knowing anything of the game and it's mechanics and then they complain because it is difficult. Lower the difficulty if you can't manage the fight and blame yourself, not the game.
There are much more difficult fights ahead. Wait until you meet king Boreas... And Later you'll meet invulnerable ennemies.

Don't expect to beat Bracchus Rex at level 4, you must be prepared and high enough level.

It is not important if he kills one character right away, just resurrect it. He uses the meteor shower only once so all you have to do is have one of your characters survive the initial attack.

[bearsboi]

Originally posted by Kvinden:

Bracchus Rex is a boss, that's all. Players are so smug they always want to play at maximum difficulty without knowing anything of the game and it's mechanics and then they complain because it is difficult. Lower the difficulty if you can't manage the fight and blame yourself, not the game.
There are much more difficult fights ahead. Wait until you meet king Boreas... And Later you'll meet invulnerable ennemies.

Don't expect to beat Bracchus Rex at level 4, you must be prepared and high enough level.

It is not important if he kills one character right away, just resurrect it. He uses the meteor shower only once so all you have to do is have one of your characters survive the initial attack.

i wasnt gonna reply to a dead thread since people kept reviving it, but this one is super funny. i played the entire game on the easiest difficulty even when i made this thread LOL and my characters were all level 9. but clearly you didn't read the thread. you sounded so sure of yourself. i ended up taking some more helpful people's advice here and eventually defeated him anyway. was a fun game besides the bad ending