Divine Epic Encounter SPOILERS Options

[rbeverjr]

I thought this encounter was hilarious – in a bad joke sort of way. After all, you must defeat it in order to face the final conflict. And there is no setting on the difficulty slider that is less than easy.

During this encounter you will face a Rakasha Prince god, a bunch of horrid and noble Rakasha (Rakashas love to cast Protection from Magic Weapons and Absolute Immunity, yee-hah), a supreme golem, two ultra golems, an elemental golem, a bunch of amber golems, and a coin golem or more. Topping this, the Rakasha Prince has a Repulse Field (or some Star Trek-like name). As near as I can tell, this power will strip you of your buffs (including hardiness), do a little damage, and has a chance of stunning you. Whooo-hooo! I think it may be an area effect power too. This power is in need of some nerfing as far as I’m concerned. The opposition is tough, but this power combined with the opposition is just wrong.

This is by far the toughest fight that I have ever faced in BG2. I am in awe of anyone who can win this battle. I am particularly impressed with someone who can do it on insane. I am absolutely dumbfounded now when considering that thetruth thinks he can win with a single fighter-mage!!!

OK, I struggled through some of the improved encounters in the beginning. Since then, I have had a few very tough battles: the Demon Prince wanting judgment day sword, The Horde in Watcher’s Keep (mostly because of the spell shield bug), and Yaga-Shura. Now, I have run into this brick wall. Please spoil me with detailed tactics to win this battle so I can finish spoiled but otherwise without cheating.

My crew is around levels 33-40: kensai, swashbuckler, inquisitor, stalker, mage-cleric multiclass, and sorceress. (I was ready to upgrade to v 4.3, but at this stage I’m just going to finish the game at v 4.2.)

PS With this encounter as just a prelude to the final conflict, I’m sorry that I may be pestering you experts for more help later on…

This post has been edited by rbeverjr: Jun 19 2007, 03:06 PM

[Clown]

Having read this thread I thought I'd try and test the truths theory for soloing this encounter. I used an 11mil xp fighter mage from my first xp cap removed run through, kicked out the whole party and equipped her with every IA item i had inc. judgement day. I also had a shed load of spell and protection scrolls saved from throughout the game. Oh yeah and I had the pasha, thank god.

So far no sucess but have managed to kill all three golems and was doing quite well against the prince after that but made a couple of costly errors. I am now pretty much sure it is possible to solo but will keep trying in order to prove it.

As for soloing it with the xp cap, no IA items or on insane I dont know but I'll leave that to thetruth to try.

[thetruth]

So far no sucess but have managed to kill all three golems and was doing quite well against the prince after that but made a couple of costly errors. I am now pretty much sure it is possible to solo but will keep trying in order to prove it.

Nice job Clown! Then maybe it is doable.
What was the biggest problem in this fight? Could you damage enough the Prince?


SPOILER (maybe useful to rbeverjr as well)
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When you are hitting the Prince the most annoying thing is his Field of Repulse (throw back + unconsciousness effect).

But if you use a Potion of Magic Shielding + the usual buffs (PfMWs, I.Haste, Spell Shield) this fight can become much easier (immunity to Field of Repulse).
Just be sure to kill first the other Rakhashas that can remove your protections.

[rbeverjr]

But if you use a Potion of Magic Shielding + the usual buffs (PfMWs, I.Haste, Spell Shield) this fight can become much easier (immunity to Field of Repulse).
Just be sure to kill first the other Rakhashas that can remove your protections.

Surely, it can be done with my crew too? I suppose that I could buff my mage-cleric in this way (+Holy Power+Righteous Magic), but I kind of like her sitting back out of harms way with Greater Restoration.

I've been resisting playing a fighter-mage type as a protagonist, but it seems that it would make things easier for the toughest fights.