Undead scarecrow is melting me. help

[weird name]

i am lvevl 10 and on normal diff. this encounter is melting me so any tips i would need. or is there somwhere else i should be at my level?

[Jackal]

I never bothered with scarescrow until it was the last thing to do and he was a pain in the ass at start when i didn't know what to expect and started the battle with him killing one of my characters, everyone just got terrified and were level 17

[Stabbey]

Don't even think of fighting it at level 10. It's level 12 FFS. Even at level 12 it's a pain. At level 10 you should be heading... north/west along the coast towards Wreckers cove.

Come back at level 12, and then my advice is to focus all your attacks onto the Scarecrow immediately. Ignore all other enemies until it is gone, the Terror aura is the biggest threat.

[Machin Ator]

Theyre hardcore - the biggest problem is the Terror Aura on the main one.

Tips follow:

- Keeping your magic armor up prevents terror, which is the hardest part of the fight since its basically a permanent CC that screws you over
- All their attacks are magic damage, so physical armor is useless. Dont bother with skills or items that raise physical armor, try to stack magic armor
- Summons help distract them but a lot (Bone Widow as one example) have no magic armor so they get terrified right away , use them mostly as meat shields
- Clear Minded removes the terror, as does Enrage; if you have Clear Minded it gets removed when you are in the terror aura but you dont get terrified
- Craft some Clear Mind scrolls and hand out to your party
- Use Dome of Protection early on and try to keep in it for the armor regen which prevent the terror
- Use Soothing Cold (magic armor regen)
- Have potions of magic armor (see a theme here?)
- When the main guy has Evasion Aura up dont bother with melee skills but spells cannot miss :)
- Use your source skills liberally since the main guy is just going to drain your source and then cast hard hitting spells with it
- If you have Fane save Time Stop (easily the best unique ability) until the clutch moment comes
- For a tiny advantage if you need it, start the fight by ambushing the lead guy instead of doing the dialogue so you can get in a big 'alpha strike' spell.

Hope this helps - its a hard fight even in Classic but totally doable.

[Morgian]

And finally you can cheat. When the scarecrow talks to a character, have another port her three times towards the gallows, and you fight her there. This enables you to kill it before the others reach you.
If the guy talking to her is a lonewolf, he has the AP to use his pyramid to reach the spot instantly. Otherwise make sure he has a couple of port powers to get away from the others.

Anyway, if you can keep up your magic shields, this is not so bad. Machine Ator lists many of the possibilities and I will give you one more: stardust herbs grant you a lot of immunities for 3 rounds.

[weird name]

Originally posted by Stabbey:

Don't even think of fighting it at level 10. It's level 12 FFS. Even at level 12 it's a pain. At level 10 you should be heading... north/west along the coast towards Wreckers cove.

Come back at level 12, and then my advice is to focus all your attacks onto the Scarecrow immediately. Ignore all other enemies until it is gone, the Terror aura is the biggest threat.

speaking of wreckers cove.. that place seems even harder r am i crazy?