How to kill Viscount Smoulderbourn?

[Lokiwolf90]

My attacks keep missing.

[heh]

just keep at it

[Greb]

He has 35 AC and +12 DEX bonus or something like that.

You kill him...with great difficulty. Also electricity resistance. And buffs. Acid and fire vials can help too! Tank him with Valerie and flank him with Amiri on rage, maybe that'll help too!

It's not worth it though. At least, assuming what he dropped isn't just vendor trash / rare / one of a kind anyway.

[Scorpiova]

Come back later when you are powerful! And destroy him!

[Fishies]

Use abilities that don't use attack rolls, like Magic Missile (lol except he can cast Shield)

Supposedly this guy is a demilich so channeling positive energy might be able to hurt him as well

But really you aren't supposed to be able to beat him so early on so I think you may be wasting your time

[Lokiwolf90]

I didn't really have a choice. He ambushed me while I was resting. Also he's not undead... found that out when I tried CMW on him and it healed him.

[Robineus]

You'd think more people would be clued on to the campsite surrounded by dead people.

[Fishies]

RIP

Do you have an earlier save you can load to? I hope you aren't on ironman mode or anything

Originally posted by Robineus:

You'd think more people would be clued on to the campsite surrounded by dead people.

First time I clicked on the campsite by accident while trying to loot the dead guys. shrug lol

[Greb]

Yeah that was really mean. I'd planned on using that free camp as a refresh before leaving the area after my business was concluded, and then he showed up. I know there was plenty of evidence something bad had happened, but I didn't expect something THAT bad, lol.

I sorta figured the guys got splattered because they picked an unfortunate time to be chilling out when a war started. It's just...normally you'd think there'd be more warning environmentally lol. Not just some camp right there a stones throw away from the tree. If it was in some secluded glade crackling with electricity or covered in fog maybe, but it looked like your average friendly roadside camp. Nothing sinister, no reason for a night immortal thunderskull to be lurking nearby etc.

The exception proves the rule! I'm glad he's "dead" or whatever.

[Robineus]

Well he can be killed for some reason only Valerie was able to damage him in my encounter but he's very high level with amazing defenses.

[Hail2U!]

He's not demilich. He is...Hell if I know what he is.

The way I've defeated them is knowing there will be a fight with him, and he's a massive prick, I've took Regongar and well, myself. My character is a cleric, so you can bring Tristian for that job if you need to.

So the trick is - you position Tristian as far away from party as possible and stuff all his level 1 slots with Remove Fear.
Regongar casts True Strike on himself, then he uses touch attack spells, obviously not shocking grasp, on that thing.Rest are just in there, hoping to get a critteroni on thing. Tristian dispells fear from them all.

That's pretty much it. He gives a diamond when defeated. Can sell it or store for later, it will be needed for Ressurects

[living_one]

There was actually a Lore(Nature) check you could've done on the bodies. I failed it so no idea what it would say , but it might tell you how they died :)

[CaoLex]

Originally posted by living_one:

There was actually a Lore(Nature) check you could've done on the bodies. I failed it so no idea what it would say , but it might tell you how they died :)

The requirement for this check is seems to be really high, but you can't not become suspicious when you see failed check, lol.

[darrylhs]

I got caught with the thought of a free camp sight and instantly regretted clicking on it. But a reload later I just walked away

[nshawmc]

i couldn't do it either with level 2 group. barbarian could hit him hard sometimes but never could kill him.

[Irish Android]

Originally posted by nshawmc:

i couldn't do it either with level 2 group. barbarian could hit him hard sometimes but never could kill him.

I couldn't figure it out either. His AC is so absurdly high you can only make contact on a natural 20. Like someone else, I clicked the rest area, discovered this fight, then reloaded and said forget it.

Someone else mentioned alchemical fire and other bomb like devices, but I personally can't make them connect without hitting my party ("I don't think this is how this spell is used!").