Beating Demogorgon With a Druid

alastair93

Is it possible to beat Demogorgon with a solo Druid?

He's apparently immune to spells below level 7, and has a magic resistance of 90%. Does this mean that a solo Druid has a 1/10 chance of Nature's Beauty blinding him?

Are there any other ways that a Druid could win?

DreadKhan

Drown him with their blood maybe? Yikes.

Attalus

DreadKhan said:

Drown him with their blood maybe? Yikes.

Okay, that is my first real laugh of the day. Thanks! @DreadKhan

tbone1

I'd beat him with a club; druids are too floppy.

OlvynChuru

Here's an idea. Looking at Demogorgon's weapon, I noticed that it deals crushing damage. Although crushing damage is the best damage type against armor, it is not a great damage type to give to a major boss. You see, if you drink a Potion of Absorption, you gain +10 AC against crushing weapons. In addition, multiple Potions of Absorption stack! Drink two of those and Demogorgon will have trouble hitting you even with his great THAC0.

This was how I managed to beat Belhifet with a solo necromancer in the non-enhanced Icewind Dale. For some reason, Belhifet did crushing damage in that version of the game, so I had my mage drink a Potion of Absorption and he couldn't hit him. Then, since Belhifet is immune to all magic, I had my necromancer stab him to death with a dagger.

JuliusBorisov

I haven't tested my solo druid against Demogorgon during the Totemic Druid run.

But it may have been possible if the Magic Resistance spell worked on Demogorgon.

alastair93 said:

He's apparently immune to spells below level 7.

Demogorgon is 100% resistant to Fire, so Fire Storm is not an option (that goes through Magic Resistance).

Maybe try Harm (if you load several of them, they may work in the end)?

Cvijeta

Beat him with bone club + shilliegh. Or at least try.

Could healing spell harm him? Like that demon in Temple stronghold quest?

SomeSort

Cvijeta said:

Beat him with bone club + shilliegh. Or at least try.

Could healing spell harm him? Like that demon in Temple stronghold quest?

No. The healing spell doesn't actually hurt the demon underneath the temple district any, it simply triggers a scripted death scene.

lunar

Implosion+Energy blades is the way to go, but it will be very difficult. If at all possible. You need to counter his summons with your own and focus on him fast and furious, while all the same time trying to stay alive yourself.

JuliusBorisov

@lunar Isn't Demogorgon 100% resistant to Electricity?

lunar

@JuliusBorisov

True. He has immunity to fire, electricity, only %50 resistance to cold, no resistance to acid, and a whopping %90 magic resistance. On top of that he has -16 ac or better, IIRC. Landing harm will be impossible due to ac and magic resistance, and he may be even immune to some spell levels/effects. Energy blades also do slashing damage and a single class druid's best option to damage him, thanks to their great attack rate and bonus. Even then they may not be enough because he has 290 hp and something like 6 hp/sec regeneration and he has protection spells/stoneskins too! Not to mention he will spawn some truly nasty demons non-stop. And his attacks are rather...debiliating, to say the least. (Level drain, disease, slow, confusion etc. Although a druid can protect himself to an extent.)

ThacoBell

@lunar You can, at least, prevent him from spam summoning demons. If you leave one of the Mariliths alive in his encounter, his script to start spamming endless Glabrezu will never trigger.