The Eternal Aetera

[Schaapje]

Honestly. How do you killed this overpowered masked ♥♥♥♥♥?

She starts with either summoning 2 extra dogs, or shoot 2 sometimes 3 OVERPOWERED high-leveled, insane range and width spell that either kills 1 or 2 of my team members when spread out, and then drains 1 or 2 of my members of source points losing the chance to do it. Or she summons 2 extra dogs right next to my members and then blasts some other members with 2 high-leveled magic spells, almost killing them, but the dogs will finish them off. She always starts first, I get maybe 1 or 2 members to do something but then 4 or 6 dogs and she gets to go again.

Her magic she cats are lightning or ice so those get hit, if they survive, will be stunned or frozen, thus the dogs can finish them off.

She starts with 4 summon dogs dealing 250ish per hit, each dog does 2, sometimes 3 hits. They have insane movement speed, fire and water 60% res, poison 100% res, they can fly/jump, and only earth and lightning seems to work.

I have tried different methods and the closest I got to killing her was 50%. This is on classic mode and my team is level 13, quite well spec'd if I say so my self but I just cannot kill her due to her unfair advantages.

I have tried it for over 2 hours now, different tactics and all but nothing.

[Interrobang]

Yeah, I just fled from her for now. I'm just gonna guess I missed something in the main story that you're meant to have before fighting her. Probably like a Source upgrade or something. I don't think the devs would be stupid enough to lob such a one-sided fight at you. :P

But yeah. Main quest upgrade or some mechanic in the fight that the player's meant to take advantage of. No doubt.

[Brechnor]

OMG I just got to this fight and i'm level 14, she is weak but hits too hard and fast to get any sort of punishment on her to win.

even beast that I made a super tank gets whittled down by their speed lol.

[Schaapje]

Originally posted by idiot:

Yeah, I just fled from her for now. I'm just gonna guess I missed something in the main story that you're meant to have before fighting her. Probably like a Source upgrade or something. I don't think the devs would be stupid enough to lob such a one-sided fight at you. :P

But yeah. Main quest upgrade or some mechanic in the fight that the player's meant to take advantage of. No doubt.

Yeah I suppose. I now skipped her and back-tracked all the way to the city centre. I started a few other quests, including Godwoken stuff and such.

I'll get to her and her dogs and tear her a new one. *grin*

[Xarian]

I don't know what to tell you. I just used standard tactics - teleported her next to my warrior, who beat her face in with a hammer. Chain knockdowns helped, and I only let her get one turn since I didn't really have other important targets. I thought that the dogs were weak.

Maybe just level your characters up and come back later?

[Nospaz]

I killed her by moving my other characters close to her while main was talking to her. Then just focused hard with psysical damage to cc and dps her and elemental damage casters to slow down the dogs.

[nitowa]

Some tips (beat it on tactician):

Position your 3 non-main characters along the high-ish ground at the entrance to the area (north I believe, where the boss also spawns). Pull with the main-char and immediately use a mobility ability (fly, phoenix jump, etc) to get to where the boss going to be. You get a few seconds of movement before the dialogue starts.

Crowd control the dogs and focus the boss primarily. If you ever choose to go for the dogs use strong AOE to kill multiple at the same time. Strong AOE disables for them are polymorph's medusa head and hydro's freeze spells as they have basically no magic armor. Use your source spells early and liberally as you'll probably get drained by her anyway.

Other than that it's all about bursting her really hard, while tanking through her AOE bull*hit. The AOE bubble that restores both armor types every round (got it on my human avatar, not sure if any premade members get it tbh) is invaluable for the more difficult fights.

The fight against her is basically the hardest in the game except for maybe the last one,
that just relies on the bull*hit mechanic of killing the right target first

[DinoPony]

I literally just beat her, and the reflect from her dogs killed my last party member because he was on like 10hp
Time to try again lmao
also im running 2 lone wolf characters both level 14

[Sai Kyouji]

You're just underleveled. Nothing too tricky about this fight. Lvl 15-16 should do.

[Brakiros]

This ♥♥♥♥♥ of a fight basically comes down to luck, you will need perfect positioning and also some luck. I was able to murder her with Ifan's soul wolf and Sebille's 3 source scoundrel skill need to bait her with a soft target so she puts all her God juice on them and then you obiliterate or at least get her stunned on turn 2 or she will murder you she has blizzard which will guaranteed one shot you and the soul wolves which do around 900 damage per turn

[^DreeMax^]

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22:16

Just keep one assassin or any heavy damager upstairs. Kill her in turn-two and deal with dogs.

[ProofTheory]

One easy answer: Charming grenade on the summons.

Charming is resisted by magic armor, of which the summons have very little, as pointed out ealier.

First position one character to activate the sarcophagus, and the others to wait far enough down the long stairs behind where Aetera appears, so they won't enter the fight until you want to. The character at the sarcophagus should be the one you judge least useful for this tactic, i.e. bait.

Second, once you activate the sarcophagus, run back from it with your bait character as far as you can.

Now, when the fighting starts wait until Aetera have summoned minions on top of your bait, THEN enter the fight with your other characters. you can try to teleport/fly/cloack and dagger to ledges to the side of the stairs, and block the path with a larger summons e.g. bone widow, to keep your characters shielded when the summons attack.

Use teleport to position both Aetera and the summons so, that you can target as many summons as possible close to aetera with ONE charm grenade, once the summons' magic armor is down (easily done with e.g. one fireball or similar AoE). The summons hit very hard with three attacks per turn so they will chip away Aeteras physical armor quickly and then her health. Then she's easy pickings.

From the ledges you can teleport the summons a very large distance away, if you need to catch your breath.

Thus, you will need to prepare physical spells for controlling Aetera, and magical spells tfor controlling the summons.

I beat her like this as level 14.

[Tally]

Okay, honestly, I think you're either underleveled, undergeared, or a mix of the two. I struggled with my first playthrough on some fights because it's my first Original Sin game (and first turn-based RPG of this type) but I never even gave a second thought to this fight, that's how basic it seemed. Maybe I was on Explorer difficulty for like 2-3 hours back then... Had to tone it down there for the Hannag fight, screw that one.

Anyway, on my consecutive playthroughs, she usually dies in one, max 2 turns, and never does much harm to anyone.

[Clown Fiesta]

put oil on the ground > put the powder kegs in the area where she will fly to once the fight begans > have a fire mage ignite the kegs > hope she doesnt use rain > focus her down(try to get AOE spells off on your fire mage before he dies, he can do a ton of damage to the wolves because of their low MR).

I did it at level 14 this way with: 1H, ranger, fire mage, enchanter. Only my warrior + ranger survived and I had to use healing potions on him. But that's a pretty good strat to go with because the wolves have low MR, so everytime they move in the fire they take dmg.

[Morgian]

My standard tactic is to get the melee next to her, so he can put her down, assisted by the casters.

And since this is a good spot, I want to recommend the Sparking Swings to the melee/pyro hybrids. The amount of damage to NPCs around the target can be very helpful. Maybe not so good on non-lone wolves, who have lower stats and skills.

[Hexagon]

Is she that hard? I killed her first time on classic with no sweat.
I did kill everything on the west/ north west though and done every quest there