Alexander Boss Fight: LOLWTF?

[Zeretrelle]

Seriously, how you are supposed to fight this group without using cheesy tricks?

The mage on the left can alone ONE-SHOT your ENTIRE party using a meteor rain spell(!)

I managed to finish this encounter by luring enemies away one by one. Well, mostly one by one. And I tried to keep them always frozen\stunned

Then I tried to kill dat mage and got one-shotted ..like everybody got one-shotted

Anyways, I managed to save-scum through this encounter and BAM! right after the mage died a giant worm spawns right on top of my party. Needles to say I wasn't ready for this and got owned. Reloaded and then killed it saving every turn.

I thought the dragon was supposed to attack these dudes after you help him but he doesn't.

[mr.Badim]

I just finished this battle as well.
You can attack them from height - I took a right side. There is a just one ladder - easy to def and possible to keep ice there.
General rule - have to keep them knoked down or frozen - that helped.

Helpers from seekers - that is a joke indeed =)

[Lynne]

The dragon seems to be bugged, or he's a ♥♥♥♥.

The way I fought it, position yourself outside the doorway in the courtyard. Send one person to 'aggro' Alexander. As soon as the battle begins, teleport the talker back with your gloves.

At this point you play endurance. Hold your ground in the courtyard, keeping Alex and the beastie CC'd until the worm awakens. Then you leg it and let them duke it out. Make sure to help out the worm by taking potshots with your spells when you have the opportunity.

[mr.Badim]

How to ensure worm appearing?
That bugs me - couse I had to stand on top by sea side, and he only apperead when last of magisters was killed.

[Zeretrelle]

Originally posted by mr.Badim:

How to ensure worm appearing?
That bugs me - couse I had to stand on top by sea side, and he only apperead when last of magisters was killed.

Yeah same here.

[Xafron Chi]

I am not really sure what you mean by cheesy tricks, but I didn't do anything out of the ordinary in that fight. Died the first time, reloaded, won the second time with only one dead party member.

[devnull]

The dragon isn't bugged for me. As a I approached, he flew over and killed all the shriekers for me, allowing me to enter. Now, this was WAY before I was ready (lvl 5 or so) and I got completely owned. I'm now lvl 7 and as ready as I can get, so I'm about to go do the battle. Wish me luck lol

[Zeretrelle]

You can kill shriekers using another purging wand you can find in the ruins (I think it was where the cursed illusionist dwells)

[Xafron Chi]

Originally posted by h0rnyfavn:

You can kill shriekers using another purging wand you can find in the ruins (I think it was where the cursed illusionist dwells)

It is. That's the only one I found though, where is the other/s?

[Arch]

I haven't played it yet (just downloading)

But I'm encouraged by this thread. I'm glad there's DIFFICULT stuff in the game that requires thought and strategy, instead of being a piece of ♥♥♥♥ braindead ... I dunno, almost all other games these days

[Zeretrelle]

Originally posted by Huggles `:

I haven't played it yet (just downloading)

But I'm encouraged by this thread. I'm glad there's DIFFICULT stuff in the game that requires thought and strategy, instead of being a piece of ♥♥♥♥ braindead ... I dunno, almost all other games these days

Ah. another one of these Alexander THe Greats... ;))

Anyways, it seems this encounter is abit broken
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=586031&

[eRe4s3r]

For me the boss fight just flat out freezes, slane free and did not kill the shriekers, but no problem, I did ;) 5 dudes standing there and turn frozen at Alex in combat mode.. well that's EA

[Hastur]

Holy fire effect makes you gain 150% fire resistance.

[mr.Badim]

I finished first act without Rex Armory and without Gargolies.
I assume bless spell needed to open cursed lock, and jars(that i destroed or absorbed) for gargolies.

[devnull]

Well, I managed to defeat Alaexandar and then the worm without too much trouble (Classic Difficulty). Basically, I just ran Red Prince (my melee fighter) in to trigger the dialog while the rest of the party sat just outside the main arch. When the fight started, I teleported Red Prince back to the party and let the mobs come to me. A couple were so far away they didn't even bother, which was great. Alexandar and 3 others came at me, including an invisible rogue. From there, I just carpet bombed the area where they were all forced to gather (i.e. the choke point) with fireballs, poison, ice storms, anything I could. I kept them stunned, frozen, knocked down, etc. as much as possble and just pounded on them. Eventually, about the time they were all nearly dead (and I was nearly untouched), the worm showed up and killed a couple of the enemy that were too far back and hadn't run toward me. As it finished that, I finished off Alexandar and his henchmen. The worm ported into my party and I just basically had to make sure I healed and fortified enough to survive a bit while I whittled it down.

Really, pretty standard tactics for a tough boss fight in this game, to be honest. Worked as well as it usually does.

Now I can't wait for chapter 2!

Here was my party at the beginning of the battle:

Sebille (Main): http://prntscr.com/cizxno
Lohse: http://prntscr.com/cizxyd
Ifan: http://prntscr.com/cizy2d
Red Prince: http://prntscr.com/cizyl1

[APerfidiousDane]

WOT WARNING:
My Team: http://i.imgur.com/wONX3au.png

This fight is relatively easy if you have 2 melee and 2 ranged. I used my Dwarven fighter, the red prince, and my 2 girls who are badasses.

My Strategy:
Blow the barrel up pre-fight on the right side in the small corridor and set it aflame. Bless yourself and turn it into holy fire. Trigger the fight while you're in the corridor and make sure your 2 ranged characters are in the back or you'll get stomped. As they all came up to surround me I was able to double cripple with my fighter and the Prince in order to chunk down their physical armour. After that I could alternate my knockdowns on them while the wand chick whittled away at their magic armor when she wasn't on buff/heal duty. Since everybody is all clumped together this makes things nice and easy for Sebille(sp?)'s richochet and piercing arrows along with her sniper shot for a real good physical armor chunk. Once the Bishops magic armor is gone then you can use decaying touch (I put some necro pts on the Prince) so that if he DID happen to move in the holy fire he wouldn't have gotten healed. Luckily with the cramped spaces moving for them is limited to very little. If you get overwhelmed just teleport one of the tougher characters as far away as possible so they have to use AP to run all the way back.

I got lucky and the worm took care of the archer and mage on the left side for me however so long as you stay in that corridor the mage can't see you and either has to a) move to a strange location to attack or b) bide their time.

Also, I believe shooting a fire arrow into holy fire deals splash heals. At least that's what seemed ot happen once the archer shot one into me. I'll admit, I did flee from combat after the magisters were dead in order to regroup and go in at the worm in a more spread out pattern to avoid mass-knockdowns. It was definitely a tough fight strategically but once that was figured out it wasn't to bad. In fact, a lot of the fights in this game are super tough but they're oh so rewarding.