Do ballista target fader ?

[Thenais]

So i went and prepared a nice enclosed area for fader,
but before i start the fight,
does somebody know if ballistas can hit it ?

thanks !

[Zathabar]

Interesting.
however Standard game ballistas attack anything they can see most especially including you!
to prevent this you can touch the trophy to them.
So to kill Fader with Balistae safely you need a Fader head which makes the exercise pointless does it not?

[Exodite-Dragon]

Originally posted by Zathabar:

Interesting.
however Standard game ballistas attack anything they can see most especially including you!
to prevent this you can touch the trophy to them.
So to kill Fader with Balistae safely you need a Fader head which makes the exercise pointless does it not?

I suppose it depends. I never thought to set up ballistae to fight to Fader, and I'm not sure what their targeting priority is without a trophy loaded. But, if you trust that you can avoid the missile fire and maneuver Fader into a position where he's targeted before you are, it could work.

Still, I think your ballistae are all more likely to be destroyed before they do sufficient damage to justify the time taken to set them up in the first place.

[Vector Melon]

ha, might work but the damage will be pitiful and his attacks are so huge any in range will likely get smoked

[Thenais]

24 ballistae spread in an halfmoon,
they took more than half the life of the boss before getting destroyed.
totally worth it.
would have been even better if i hadn't been so slow to realize the adds targeted them.
i ended it with 2 tiny lightning flavored rippers. (such poor durability for such amazing weapon)

[OctoberSky]

Congratulations! Next, the Deep North!

[Exodite-Dragon]

Originally posted by Thenais:

24 ballistae spread in an halfmoon,
they took more than half the life of the boss before getting destroyed.
totally worth it.
would have been even better if i hadn't been so slow to realize the adds targeted them.
i ended it with 2 tiny lightning flavored rippers. (such poor durability for such amazing weapon)

Hey good job, nice to know some preliminary set-up is worth it lol

[Salty]

They targeted Moder.

[OctoberSky]

My first two Ashlands solos were with mage characters and they managed Fader with 1) troll staff (the bug) and 2) Staff of the Wild (not a bug). This 3rd Ashlands solo is with a warrior character and I was wondering about something similar to OP when I was scouting my Fader area and got jumped by a couple of 1-stars

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3322399459

Hmmmmm .....

[OctoberSky]

.... but it was still a tough slog.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3324933453

I like to surround the site with a terrain enclosure and knock out the charred ruin with a battering ram. Of the 105 in the pen, they managed to get Fader to %25 health in the first minute. But the survivors - about 50 - were in wandering packs on the edges of the pen and I had to lead Fader into them to finish him off. If (when) I do my 4th play-through I will try again to do it with melee. But when opportunity presents itself in Valheim, you learn to adapt.