The Ravager Fight on Legacy of Bhaal difficulty
PixelRunner
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so apparently, he has 1600 hp or so. no other boss has so much life as far as i know. and for some reason, my spike traps only deal half their normal damage to him. whats going on here?
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Typically I find this a pretty satisfying exercise for an end game party just for a pure damage dealing perspective.
Damage resistances: 75% physical, 100% all elements and poison. Also 90% magic resistance.
Your traps should do their full normal damage. But. You can't set those traps up in the arena to trigger at the start of the fight, and anywhere else you're likely to hit the Bone Blades instead and waste the trap. And then you run out of traps and the Ravager still has tons of hit points left, because you can only set seven.
Dragon form Abazigal has 200 HP, when not in LoB (unmodded). Which is effectively 181, since he's immortal and dies by script when he drops below 20. Where are you getting 890 from?
Human form Abazigal has 290 HP and transforms when under half. So that's effectively 146 HP normally and 476 on LoB (half of 950 plus one).
Dragon form Abazigal has 200 HP and dies at under 20. That's effectively 181 HP normally, and either 661 or 401 on LoB depending on which HP modifier is used. At 661, killing with seven spike traps and nothing else is theoretically possible but extremely unlikely; more than eight standard deviations above the mean. At 401, it's nearly certain; that's more than four standard deviations below the mean.
oh, its his saving throws, got it..
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Also, remember the vids from a "speedrun" (not exactly cuz I my life is broken into 15 minute shards) and help for melee speedrunners , so the point is that I am not going after any gear that takes time to get. The flail of ages is the only thing that isn't right there for CHARNAME doing the main plotline -- I have that harvest down to a science. Once I do insane and/or lob, gonna need a crom or a ram. Maybe both!
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U are welcome! I'll watch (and comment) some of your other videos too. 😉
Currently, I play mainly IWD (pure melee fighter) and BG1 (double-wielding katanas). If U wish, U can comment too:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/88061/solo-hof-from-scratch-melee-fighter
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/88847/exotic-runs-dual-wielding-katanas
And will check out the dual katana thread for sure, Yigor. Thats funny. I miss IWD too.
This weekend (week is shot), I will run RVGR on insane difficulty with RNGR to see if the strat is lights out.
after days and days of trying, i finally managed to do it. heres how: i buffed myself up as much as i could, tho its not like i was going to beat him with physical attacks, melee or ranged - his resistances and AC are far too much for a thief, because of LoB and all. then summoned a bunch of creatures, like a mordankainens sword, a djinni, hakeashar, and i made a simulacrum of myself. i entered the arena, trembling with fear. i agroed the Ravager with all summons and managed to drag him and the bone blades into a corner. then ran to the opposite side with my simulacrum and set 7 spike traps with him, taking about half the time it would normally take to do so, thanks to the sim laying traps along side myself. at this point, or maybe a bit earlier, i used a web scroll, for safety and more time to maneuver / lay traps. its important that the Ravager himself is pretty stupid, if you run quickly out of his visual range, he will not follow, instead he just hangs around in the same spot. so that helped a lot - the bone blades, however are much smarter, they will come get you even if they just finished fighting your summons and you are out of their range. next, i went and faked a melee attack on the Ravager, drag him into the mines, and dont ask me how i managed to not get the bone blades to arrive there faster than him, thats all buried memory by now. or maybe they were still fighting the magic sword or mth. he ate the traps and got to Injured. now i ran for my life into a safe corner, far from any enemy, and as my summons all died or were unsummoned, there was a very brief moment of silence which allowed me to save the game - yeah i know, you could say its an exploit/cheat, but ill take it and im not ashamed by it. now comes like 10 reloads or smth like that, cos i had to do the following: cast another web spell, because the bone blades were coming to get me (like i said, they are smart), then run to safety and use the time i just bought to: use a wish scroll and hope to get that options where you get a nights rest and all your ability charges are restored, make another simulacrum, lay 7 more spike traps. now it becomes a little blurry - all i know is i managed to drag him again into the traps, taking him to Near death (meanwhile the bone blades were busy with a couple more summons i made after laying the traps), then i dragged him away from where the traps were, returned again (by now he was far enough) and i and my simulacrum which was still alive laid 3 more spike traps. but by now all the summons were gone again, and i had to circle the arena a couple of times in utter horror, both to not provoke the Ravagers ranged attack and not have the bone blades trigger the traps. i used the Ring of duplication in panic, managed to use a Monster summoning III to buy several seconds, than i went and melee attacked the Ravager, get him to follow again into the 3 Spike traps and......
he fu**ing died!
LE: again, i wanna say, that which i find really strange and sad is that the assassins specialty, which is the backstab/assassinate is, somewhat paradoxically, useless against the strongest foes. it just doesnt make sense.
this wont make me feel less happy about the victory, in any way, but.. mathematically, i should have needed more traps
sorry, what do you mean by this? maybe my english is failing me a little.
kudos to you too, thats some hardcore play you got there.