♥♥♥♥ING orc warleader (level VIII, council)

[TheRadiance]

This fight is insanly imbalanced. I'm playing on normal difficulty, and have tried about 10 times without success. The jump that the warlord does is just fatal, and nothing causes any damage to it (not even talking about the physical reflection, even elemental attacks seem to have close to no effect on the guy). It just feels like trying to take on level V enemies but with the amount of power that you have when entering at level I. I'm not against challenges, but there is a logical and pleasant way of doing it (hollow knight) and then there's this.

[Event Horizon]

Hello The Radiance. The advise is to stand very close to him - he does not not jump if there are no champions farther than the description of his skill.

Also - weakness is very useful here, reducing this combat to an easy encounter.

[Caelestus]

You have to understand the mechanics. If you think that was hard, wait until the later levels... there's on specific thing that will probably make you go insane. Also, did you throw a bomb at him? That'd make him significantly weaker.

[MrFusion]

2-3 weakness skills, elemental weapons and some elemental reduce (dwarf, whisper, shatter on a wepon) and the fight is easy, even on epic.
Everything is easy with weakness actually...

[Harkie]

Originally posted by Caelestus:

Also, did you throw a bomb at him? That'd make him significantly weaker.

Those bombs specific to the encounter on Level 2, which is in no way connected to this one.

[TheRadiance]

Thank you guys, I'll try that! Sorry if the post was a bit rude, I was feeling very frustrated at the time I posted it.

[waXed]

I'm on the exact fight and getting smashed. Great tips...off to pick up weakness skills!

[TheRadiance]

Finally did it! The way that worked for me was to use 1)Kane 2)Maev 3)Whisper 4)Aeric. Gave reflective powers/shields and heavy armor to Kane and used him as the main damaging force while occasionaly using him to heal the party or make it immune. Used Whisper mainly to control green doctors. Maev and Aeric were mainly used to inflict weakness and also punctually heal/damage.

[waXed]

Originally posted by TheRadiance:

Finally did it! The way that worked for me was to use 1)Kane 2)Maev 3)Whisper 4)Aeric. Gave reflective powers/shields and heavy armor to Kane and used him as the main damaging force while occasionaly using him to heal the party or make it immune. Used Whisper mainly to control green doctors. Maev and Aeric were mainly used to inflict weakness and also punctually heal/damage.

What difficulty are you playing on? I'm still getting owned on Epic

[Panterich]

Originally posted by waXed:

Originally posted by TheRadiance:

Finally did it! The way that worked for me was to use 1)Kane 2)Maev 3)Whisper 4)Aeric. Gave reflective powers/shields and heavy armor to Kane and used him as the main damaging force while occasionaly using him to heal the party or make it immune. Used Whisper mainly to control green doctors. Maev and Aeric were mainly used to inflict weakness and also punctually heal/damage.

What difficulty are you playing on? I'm still getting owned on Epic

Its the same as with other fights on epic. Try to identify what really causes the problem and seek a way to counter that. And as with other boss fights on epic, brute force is probably not the best way, try to go for sustainability first.

So, what exactly is preventing your victory?

[TheRadiance]

Originally posted by waXed:

Originally posted by TheRadiance:

Finally did it! The way that worked for me was to use 1)Kane 2)Maev 3)Whisper 4)Aeric. Gave reflective powers/shields and heavy armor to Kane and used him as the main damaging force while occasionaly using him to heal the party or make it immune. Used Whisper mainly to control green doctors. Maev and Aeric were mainly used to inflict weakness and also punctually heal/damage.

What difficulty are you playing on? I'm still getting owned on Epic

Haha normal. I don't have the courage/time to play on epic

[waXed]

Originally posted by Panterich:

Originally posted by waXed:

What difficulty are you playing on? I'm still getting owned on Epic

Its the same as with other fights on epic. Try to identify what really causes the problem and seek a way to counter that. And as with other boss fights on epic, brute force is probably not the best way, try to go for sustainability first.

So, what exactly is preventing your victory?

I have the best luck with Kane, Whisper, Aeric and Maeve. Things go fairly well until <50% when he throws up the damage reflect. Seems like it's so easy to pull agro off of kane I have to constantly move the ranged around so they don't auto attack, land a big crit then get two shot.

[waXed]

Got it! Had to be very careful with Maeve using rain of arrows for the weakness debuff so she didn't reflect kill herself

[Panterich]

Originally posted by waXed:

I have the best luck with Kane, Whisper, Aeric and Maeve. Things go fairly well until <50% when he throws up the damage reflect. Seems like it's so easy to pull agro off of kane I have to constantly move the ranged around so they don't auto attack, land a big crit then get two shot.

That`s what i was talking about. Rain of arrows is not meant for this fight (at least not for the second part) and you should plan for your tanks ability to keep agro (thorns/bleeding and low skill cooldown). Maeve has 6 more skills. Also Kaela and Rakhem can do well in this fight.

Btw devs miss about not implementing passive stance for champions is clearly seen here.

[waXed]

I found rain to still be useful by focusing the bulk on the adds then having the last bit touch the warchief for the debuff. Wholeheartly agree about a passive stance!