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mattig Jul 28, 2016 @ 8:26pm
*spoilers* how to beat gaxkang?
Hidy ho all,

I finally found out what that quaint hovel in denerim was for. But I can't seem to kill this SOB.

So, my question is, is there a trick to defeating gaxkang?
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red255 Jul 28, 2016 @ 8:45pm 
you should play Baldurs gate 2 (why is this censored?) and meet kangaxx. the demi lich.

I can't remember beating Gaxkang but I believe my strategy involved being a decent level with decent gear and attacking him until it died.

BG2 got censored in my initial post... not sure why.
Last edited by red255; Jul 28, 2016 @ 10:59pm
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mattig Jul 28, 2016 @ 11:39pm 
Lol, yea. Hitting him till he's dead isn't working. I have allistair as my tank, me as a melee rouge, wyne as my healer, and leliana as my ranged dps. Typically wyne drops first. Then without her healing abilities, the rest of the party drops off. I managed to get him down to half health, but he just won't die.

Something I did notice during the fight. It seems like all healing effects were reduced significantly. And wynes healing aura seems to deactivate right after its activated. Not sure why.

Something else I noticed, I have allistair use his templar powers to cancel out sustained effects. But no matter what I do, healing items are reduced, healing powers are reduces, and that healing aura seems to be canceled out by something.

Can I do anything about this? Can I paralyze him, or freeze him or something? I'd like to have a full party, but I can't recruit ogrehn with this guy alive.
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biogoo Jul 29, 2016 @ 2:04am 
If i remember correctly, it should be possible to hide weaker characters behind a corner, so they dont get that wrecked. You should probably drop Leliana unless you have all the archery boosting stuff from DLCs and either get help from Morrigan or some other melee guy.
Probably the best way is to burn his mana and go on from there. Freezing from cone of cold should work too. Using some potions to boost defenses definitely helps as well.
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mattig Jul 29, 2016 @ 12:11pm 
Thanks. Unfortunetly, I started speccing morrigan to healer, so I could keep her and allistair in the same party. So she only has winters grasp, no cone of cold there.

I haven't tried the fight with the golem yet. He always came off as pretty invincible. This might be a good time to try using sten as well. Haven't had a reason to try him in a fight yet.
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red255 Jul 29, 2016 @ 5:32pm 
can we clarify some things?

What Level are you and what Difficulty are you playing on?
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mattig Jul 29, 2016 @ 9:08pm 
Fair enough. I'm lvl 16, the rest of my party is 15.

And, not that it should matter (but it does to some), I'm playing the gog release of this game.

Edit: hokay, so replacing leliana with shale didn't do anything. I didn't even lower his health bar once. *sigh*
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biogoo Jul 30, 2016 @ 1:08am 
Come again at 20 then. What is the problem? Are you missing all the time, or is your damage ineffective? Btw, the next 4 levels would be ideal to spend for the mana burn:)
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mattig Jul 30, 2016 @ 1:40am 
I honestly wasn't paying attention to what happened. I was jumping around between the party members, trying to make sure everyone stayed alive as long as possible.

But I can come back at 20. I won't get to know ohgren this run through. Ah well.
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red255 Jul 30, 2016 @ 4:40am 
why not exactly? why does optional boss prevent Ogrehen in anyway?
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biogoo Jul 30, 2016 @ 6:29am 
Originally posted by red255:
why not exactly? why does optional boss prevent Ogrehen in anyway?
Actually, wondering the same thing the whole time:D
Dont you even need to meet Oghren before you can fight him, as one of the blood vials is in deep roads?
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mattig Jul 31, 2016 @ 1:08pm 
oh my apologies. I am a melee rouge, with assasin and bard unlocked. I've unlocked the first bard ability, and the first 3 assasin abilities. I've also specced pretty heavily into duel weilding.

And thats the way the quest works. Something follows an adventurer (who takes up the quest) around, stopping would be alies from helping them. Then, once they find what its looking for, it strikes and kills them. So, when I started this quest, and I didn't meet ohgren prior, he immedieatly starts saying how I talked with one of the nobles, and how I could sod off and run back to my master.

I have a save from just before that, so I could reload, talk to him first, then take up the quest. Which is what I might do, if the general consensus is that I should come back and lvl 20.
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biogoo Jul 31, 2016 @ 1:55pm 
Originally posted by mattig89ch:
oh my apologies. I am a melee rouge, with assasin and bard unlocked. I've unlocked the first bard ability, and the first 3 assasin abilities. I've also specced pretty heavily into duel weilding.

And thats the way the quest works. Something follows an adventurer (who takes up the quest) around, stopping would be alies from helping them. Then, once they find what its looking for, it strikes and kills them. So, when I started this quest, and I didn't meet ohgren prior, he immedieatly starts saying how I talked with one of the nobles, and how I could sod off and run back to my master.

I have a save from just before that, so I could reload, talk to him first, then take up the quest. Which is what I might do, if the general consensus is that I should come back and lvl 20.
No need. He will join you anyway later.
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red255 Aug 6, 2016 @ 8:18pm 
Originally posted by mattig89ch:
Fair enough. I'm lvl 16, the rest of my party is 15.

And, not that it should matter (but it does to some), I'm playing the gog release of this game.

Edit: hokay, so replacing leliana with shale didn't do anything. I didn't even lower his health bar once. *sigh*

You didn't say the difficulty.

I went in there, with the standard level up and hit him until he dies strategy.

Did this at the endish of my campaign just before the landsmeet. Took Alistair, Wynn, Lelianna and a fighter warden (dwarf noble. templar/Beserker) warden was 24 or 25. rest of the party one level behind him. (elfroots)

seems to have low saves vs paralysis as my glyph of paralysis hit him both times, not for very long stun maybe 6 seconds

combine it with a regular paralysis and maybe stasis on him to help with your cooldowns.

he qualifies as undead I believe? As such the topsider's blade with cold iron runes or paralyze runes would seem to be your best bet. lightning then fire would be secondary choices.

Had no issues killing him with my team.
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LilG Aug 7, 2016 @ 6:54am 
I beat him on Normal using my mage that casted Manaclash when he was in arcana horror form, then using dispel magic, glyph of neutralisation, flaming weapons on melee characters & fire magic since he's weak to fire.
He does switch between melee/mage form but you can freeze or paralyse him, having some cold resistance helps as well.
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red255 Aug 7, 2016 @ 9:53am 
As said on Normal I didn't need a strategy, I paralyzed, I petrified. (didn't freeze... because I'm not a freezer)

had haste on and telekenetic weapons. was level 25. sword and board, he crumpled like a empty cardboard box.

yeah the cold spells kinda threatened me. but I was dwarf templar, and had 80% magic resistance. you want to use some greater cold balms to pump your cold resistance. by all means do so.

I just stabbed him until he died.

I think I was using a starsword and alistair was using the big axe you buy from the dwarf in camp. But I'd switch him to the topsider's blade
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