Curse

slimreb · Nov 06, 2006, 09:08 PM // 21:08

See for me Balthazar is much harder to take out than Lyssa. I mopped the floor with Lyssa when I went to cap from her.

Though I have capped/helped cap Balthazar 4 times and the build I posted worked like a charm everytime I have done it.

death fuzzy · Nov 07, 2006, 07:38 AM // 07:38

i was having trouble killing him on my own, so some guildies offered to help.
we has a hero ss, 2 hero nukers, 2 hero monks, a mm, and 2 dervishes

bring skills like weakness. it helps.

Mr Toraan · Nov 07, 2006, 02:31 PM // 14:31

We went out again last night and killed him very easily. Thank you all for the help =)

Painbringer · Nov 07, 2006, 09:43 PM // 21:43

I caped it myself last night with full group of henchmen and the ranger hero. Ranger hero with poison arrow. Kill all roaming monsters in the area 1st. Go for the side entrance. Set flags far away from fortress. Run to agro his group and flee to your group. They will follow, attack the non boss creatures first. Kill the Priests, Scribes, Paragons, and then melee and rangers. After all of them are dead go for Acolyte. I did die after killing all the minor guys, but had no problem defeating him when I returned with a -15% penalty. I also had the Merlandu Avatar going which helps a bit. Note: Dervish primary Merlandu Avatar requires 25 energy so you can not activate it with a DP penalty. I am looking for an off hand to equip so I can activate the spell. A nice -1 regeneration + 12 energy should do the trick.

NinjaKai · Nov 07, 2006, 09:48 PM // 21:48

I had my monk hero spamming aegis and ward spells.

Menzoberranzan · Nov 08, 2006, 09:48 AM // 09:48

Never had any trouble capping AoB, just used a standard hero/hench full team and went exploring.

Batou of Nine · Nov 08, 2006, 10:29 AM // 10:29

Kill as many surrounding Kournans as you can first.

The easiest henchy/hero setup vs him = Earth Henchy + Earth/Wards Hero = GG.

Cheers!

Cilvaa · Nov 08, 2006, 02:55 PM // 14:55

I used the following:
-- Tahlkora as a healer with an elite healing spell;
-- Dunkoro as a protector with an elite spell;
-- Koss as a W/Mo with self healing and protection;
-- Devona;
-- Kihm the healer henchie;
-- the paragon "motivational" henchie and
-- the illusion henchie for interrupt.

I didn't bother with the archers on the sides, I just went for the priest first, then the spotter. We got wiped soon after that, but I had activated the res shrine to the south-east. With the spotter down, we could get in nice and close.

I had Tahlkora and Dunkoro stand outside against the wall to heal and protect me thru it while taking minimal dmg themselves. I had Koss approach from the right hand side as a distraction to the guards, then the rest of my troupe came in from the left. We took out all the guards but the Acolytes AoE got us all... We res'd again and I used the same tactic, but with only the Acolyte left, it was a quick fight.

x-todd · Nov 08, 2006, 04:41 PM // 16:41

i had some issues with this one.
what i did eventually was i parked my heroes and hencies away from the castle where he is, and then micromanaged sousuke (ele hero) and used him to take out the few groups of kourman on the outer sides through the wall with meteor shower, rodgarts invo, immolate, etc... if you try this, make sure you set sousuke to, not attack and not guard, the last option, do nothing/defend or whatever its called. if you dont, he may get crazy and try and run in and aggro everything himself hehe

then i just got lucky and went in and took out the other kourman and then the acolyte last.

crucifix · Nov 08, 2006, 06:45 PM // 18:45

I henched all of the avatars. the only cap i had actual trouble with was onslaught.

Agentman · Nov 11, 2006, 09:08 AM // 09:08

I capped all 5, AoB was the hardest, then lyssa, the rest were easy. I had 60 dp for balt and lyssa. Did not want to go in and have to re-kill everything, so kept trying till i got em. Persistence pays off.

Trylo · Nov 11, 2006, 04:25 PM // 16:25

remember you can always tell ur henchies to wait behind you and pull the rangers out, thats what i did...

Queto · Nov 11, 2006, 04:40 PM // 16:40

I capped all Avatars thanks to Zhed Shadowhoof as an air ele with blinding flash and the ability to lock targets ^^

ph0bolus · Nov 11, 2006, 04:40 PM // 16:40

this works for any avatar except for melandru "BLIND" they cant hit anything with blind on em so you just stand there and hack them to pieces while they swing aimlessly at you...

Queto · Nov 11, 2006, 11:13 PM // 23:13

Aah yes, forgot that. But it's basicly all about pulling, don't take on groups that you can't handle

Devona also helps btw, she does KD once in a while so that could be usefull... Or other warrior counter like mesmer and necro hexes could kill the Acolytes quite fast.

Threepwood · Nov 12, 2006, 04:22 PM // 16:22

Indeed. I think most post agree that if you don't have an air spiker or interrupter, that you pull the groups and kill them off one by one...

I have to admit it was pretty difficult for me to cap too, even more difficult since I had no death wish whatsoever ( == halfway second survivor title

). My group consisted of:
Heroes: 1x Mo (healer) - 1x E (Nuker) - 1x W (Err... no specific function, just bashing!! ^.^ )
Henchies: 2x Mo - 1x E (Earth) - 1x P (Motivation)

Aggroing the group with the power of manual Sousuke control worked pretty well. Just send the rest of your heroes to the back. Once they'll come after Sousuke and he is safe, cancel hero orders and attack one person that is NOT the avatar. After the kill, run away, repeat over. Lengthy approach (took me about 15-20 minutes), but it was worthwile and did not got killed

Good luck with capping it!

Although, some suggestions pointed here might be interesting too (PS, and such!).

Lenox · Nov 12, 2006, 09:00 PM // 21:00

I capped AoB at level 15 with the basic setup heroes/henchs as sson as i arrived at the command post. If I remember correctly I was at -30% DP when i killed him.

Cambeul · Nov 14, 2006, 08:23 AM // 08:23

Balth the Hardest, Dwayna the Longest, damn heal tank

Rin · Nov 14, 2006, 09:19 PM // 21:19

Anyone try pacifism (monk skill)? Just have hero monks cast it alternating the recharge and when the aura wears off, kill him.