Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

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Beast of Winter Issues
The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dragon just keeps stacking Llengrath's Safeguard, what am I supposed to do? It just keeps em stacked up and I cannot kill it. First attempt I almost had it but I thought I had to do something in the side rooms but after some searching its the freaking buff. What am I supposed to do?
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Farsha Sep 16, 2018 @ 12:52pm 
Remove the buff and kill him?
It's a long fight on POTD, at least for me it was. Arcane damperer and clense both work I think.
Get a cipher with Ancestor's Memory so you won't run out of casts and abilites.
But I cannot just leave and get a Cipher now.

What classes can remove it?
Farsha Sep 16, 2018 @ 3:04pm 
Both ar actually wizard's spells, don't think any other class can remove buffs at the same scale.
Cipher's "Ancestor's Memory" restores resource pool or spell casts, cause it does brilliant inspiration. Cipher is only class now that can cast "brilliant". It's really handy in long fights, as with proper usage you'll never run out of spells or abilities. So you can cleanse dragon's buffs whole fight.
https://pillarsofeternity2.wiki.fextralife.com/Arcane+Cleanse
https://pillarsofeternity2.wiki.fextralife.com/Arcane+Dampener
https://pillarsofeternity2.wiki.fextralife.com/Ancestor's+Memory
Last edited by Farsha; Sep 16, 2018 @ 3:16pm
Reaver79 Sep 16, 2018 @ 7:12pm 
Or have a interrupt skill ready when he starts casting it.. Rangers have a easy to use shot for just this.
I been growing lazy from playing on Normal with AI so I got to prepare to wack her up. Eder can just tackle her down to the ground for some reason.

Almost had her the first try but she endured. Gonna try this out! Sadly I got no wizard with me.
ArisFuser Sep 16, 2018 @ 11:17pm 
Move your ranged/weaker characters to the spots marked on the floor next to the three guys you rescued in the mission before (one at a time) to benefit from bonus strikes to the Dragon. (500+damage each). This attack inmobilizes the dragon for some time too so make good use of it, then, make your characters jump to next active magical spot on the floor and wait for yet another 500+damage attack. These spots on the floor get renewed after some time, so whenever they get ready again, jump there again.
Originally posted by ArisFuser:
Move your ranged/weaker characters to the spots marked on the floor next to the three guys you rescued in the mission before (one at a time) to benefit from bonus strikes to the Dragon. (500+damage each). This attack inmobilizes the dragon for some time too so make good use of it, then, make your characters jump to next active magical spot on the floor and wait for yet another 500+damage attack. These spots on the floor get renewed after some time, so whenever they get ready again, jump there again.

This works even if I promised to release them to the wheel?
Farsha Sep 17, 2018 @ 11:36am 
Originally posted by Reaver79:
Or have a interrupt skill ready when he starts casting it.. Rangers have a easy to use shot for just this.

Well when I played on POTD, dragon constantly renewed his concentration, he had like 4 stacks avery few moments. So I gave up on interupting him.
Yaldabaoth Sep 17, 2018 @ 11:41am 
Originally posted by ArisFuser:
Move your ranged/weaker characters to the spots marked on the floor next to the three guys you rescued in the mission before (one at a time) to benefit from bonus strikes to the Dragon. (500+damage each). This attack inmobilizes the dragon for some time too so make good use of it, then, make your characters jump to next active magical spot on the floor and wait for yet another 500+damage attack. These spots on the floor get renewed after some time, so whenever they get ready again, jump there again.
Oh, there was actually a trick to it? I just burned the dragon down, last stretch was hardcore since I could barely hit him for more than 5 damage lol
Pretty difficult at level 16 but hey, finally some challenge I thought.
Last edited by Yaldabaoth; Sep 17, 2018 @ 11:42am
TaKo Sep 17, 2018 @ 1:06pm 
Originally posted by Farsha:
Cipher is only class now that can cast "brilliant".

new cloak has a chance to give brilliant when u're hit, 1% chance i think
Farsha Sep 17, 2018 @ 1:13pm 
Originally posted by TKDancer:
Originally posted by Farsha:
Cipher is only class now that can cast "brilliant".

new cloak has a chance to give brilliant when u're hit, 1% chance i think

Yea that is gonna keep your whole team up on resouce/casts in 30min fight with a dragon :D
Specially casters that should never get hit.
Originally Chanter had Briliant ability, but it made him best class in the game so he got a nerf. (his version was self + any allies in cone, it was OP for sure)
Ciphers are pretty weak in deadfire as CCs in general are lot weaker than in original POE, so they kept theirs for now. (also cipher version is single target)
Last edited by Farsha; Sep 17, 2018 @ 1:38pm
I finally took the big bastard out. Had to lock AI to auto attack only so they did not waste the CC.

Beast of Winter was a joke in comparison...
Farsha Sep 19, 2018 @ 2:29pm 
Originally posted by Marcus Butthurticus:
I finally took the big bastard out. Had to lock AI to auto attack only so they did not waste the CC.

Beast of Winter was a joke in comparison...

First thing to do in any cRPG is to turn companion AI off...
Originally posted by Farsha:
Originally posted by Marcus Butthurticus:
I finally took the big bastard out. Had to lock AI to auto attack only so they did not waste the CC.

Beast of Winter was a joke in comparison...

First thing to do in any cRPG is to turn companion AI off...

I usually dont play it like this, but I been so lazy and it was so easy on normal. So I let the filler battles play themself and micro in the big battles.
Farsha Sep 19, 2018 @ 2:35pm 
Originally posted by Marcus Butthurticus:

I usually dont play it like this, but I been so lazy and it was so easy on normal. So I let the filler battles play themself and micro in the big battles.

That undead dragon is the toughest thing in the game.
Right after Gocci street & the fight at the excavations site at Port Maje ofcourse :D (those to are bit insane on POTD)
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Date Posted: Sep 16, 2018 @ 9:44am
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