When are you supposed to face Braccus Rex?

[Tikky Lightmaker]

My team is lvl 9, i have 1 more area to uncover in Cyseal, i cleared the church and went in the basement. I saw Braccus there, it's level 9. i went to face it, and it wiped 3 out of 4 of my party on the 1st turn - i did not even get a chance to attack. my left over party member was a bit less than ½ health.

Not fun. Did i miss something?

[Wovan]

Yeah. That's THE Braccus Rex. He's the character behind the whole "Source Hunter" history.

[Qiox]

Originally posted by jawnhenry3rd:

My team is lvl 9, i have 1 more area to uncover in Cyseal, i cleared the church and went in the basement. I saw Braccus there, it's level 9. i went to face it, and it wiped 3 out of 4 of my party on the 1st turn - i did not even get a chance to attack. my left over party member was a bit less than ½ health.

Not fun. Did i miss something?

Yes. You missed the fact that you can send just 1 person forward to start the fight instead of all your guys clumped up.

And, now that you see that his big hit is fire damage, you can buff up fire resistance on that one guy and he will only lose maybe a quarter or a third of his health.

[Wovan]

Jokes aside. If you survived the strike and didn't quit, you'll figure out that he only does that attack once every 10 turns or so. Everything else is standard (fighting same level as him is normal, fire resistant is fun, but not needed).

Depending on his position, I find this fight is a lot easier than the Duke skeleton.

[Dragon]

You are supposed to fight Braccus Rex in such a way so as he never casts his OP meteor spell at all, ever.

As for when you are supposed to fight him: after you clear the entirety of the Cyseal region.

Braccus is supposed to the capstone of that region.

So you should do the area in Cyseal you skipped first, before doing Braccus.

Originally posted by Qiox:

You missed the fact that you can send just 1 person forward to start the fight instead of all your guys clumped up.

And, now that you see that his big hit is fire damage, you can buff up fire resistance on that one guy and he will only lose maybe a quarter or a third of his health.

That might work too, but it's still not as good as simply not allowing him to cast his meteor spell at all.

[Highrule -1]

Because normal players are totally going to know gamebreaking abuses.

[65yo talent]

Originally posted by jawnhenry3rd:

My team is lvl 9, i have 1 more area to uncover in Cyseal, i cleared the church and went in the basement. I saw Braccus there, it's level 9. i went to face it, and it wiped 3 out of 4 of my party on the 1st turn - i did not even get a chance to attack. my left over party member was a bit less than ½ health.

Not fun. Did i miss something?

you wanna aggro the blob first with a fast character and bring it out of the room and then ambush it in the doorway and bottleneck everything else. I remember from my last playthrough BR didn't even join the combat this way (even though he's supposed to)

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by jawnhenry3rd:

My team is lvl 9, i have 1 more area to uncover in Cyseal, i cleared the church and went in the basement. I saw Braccus there, it's level 9. i went to face it, and it wiped 3 out of 4 of my party on the 1st turn - i did not even get a chance to attack. my left over party member was a bit less than ½ health.

Not fun. Did i miss something?

Keep your party outside of the crypt near Thelyron, send one member in as Braccus' opening attack will kill whatever it targets, rezz them after . Target the spawns of the minions with appropriate elemenal area spells to stop them healing and the fight becomes fairly manageble.

[Heau]

Just unchain all people, spread them more towards the bottom of the map and engage. No need to go much further out of your way. That's a generally good lesson for any unknown encounter.