Insane

[markc]

Wow.  Maybe I am doing something very wrong, but the big cavern full of drakes and generators is insane.  Ive tried several approaches and each time got hopelessly overwhelmed fast.  Ive had to restore 3 times and am in danger of ending up with no pots and no $.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

MarkC

[tay]

Try ap curses on the eggs, stops 'em spawning. Try not to draw more than 1 lot at a time. Use sly look, and don't charge in! Yes it is insane.

[markc]

Oct 11, 2019 3:08:10 GMT -5 tay said:

Try ap curses on the eggs, stops 'em spawning. Try not to draw more than 1 lot at a time. Use sly look, and don't charge in! Yes it is insane.

Yep.  Those were key.  I got through the dungeon, but had to restore 8 or 10 times which I've never had to do before.  Main problem was Vrase's juggernaut would move him into a new square and trigger a new group and then it was all over.  Good think tammy was rocking a 3ap bow.  Not sure how my short range builds will get past em.  Definitely the hardest are of the game so far.

MarkC

[tay]

Did this with a ranged only group, so didn't have so much of a problem, but still ended up with 3 lots of drakes flapping round. Caution is the watchword here. Back away!

[fallen]

Which big cavern? What level?

[tay]

In the Warrens, to the right of the locked gate with the trolls. The big cave that's full of drakes. I think it's the first time you see the eggs. Playing on nightmare. Great fight, but like the Infernals, easy to get overrun.

[Bobsoupnotloggedjn]

Oct 10, 2019 20:40:40 GMT -5 markc said:

Wow.  Maybe I am doing something very wrong, but the big cavern full of drakes and generators is insane.  Ive tried several approaches and each time got hopelessly overwhelmed fast.  Ive had to restore 3 times and am in danger of ending up with no pots and no $.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

MarkC

Have to agree, rest of the Ep4 expansion has actually been disappointingly easy so far and the drake cavern is so impossibly hard.

[fallen]

Sorry to hear that bobsoup!

[amity]

Yeah, probably the hardest battle. I died lots of times and had to restore once too, and I was on Easy. If not for Ethereal anguish I don't know if I could make it through this battle.

[fallen]

Dec 25, 2019 9:51:59 GMT -5 amity said:

Yeah, probably the hardest battle. I died lots of times and had to restore once too, and I was on Easy. If not for Ethereal anguish I don't know if I could make it through this battle.

Did you find one of the two caves harder? The drake piles are intended to be hard, but not complete spike in difficulty compared to the rest. Consider them boss fights.

[T]

Those sacks of eggs were 10 times tougher than Wiegan, seriously! It's a real surprise that the final boss fight was so simple, yet the "beef gate" could beat the crap out of you.

[amity]

The cave with five drake eggs clusters was the hardest. First time I activated three clusters at once because they were pretty close and they just spawned too many drakes to handle. I had to restore and the second time I tried the other entrance and because I remembered approximately where the clusters were the battle was more manageable. Still, it was much harder than the last boss battle, probably because there weren't that many enemy troops to fight before the bosses. Only hardship was killing off a couple of giant rats that didn't do much damage but were weirdly hard to hit - I believe they were bugs because their presence didn't make much sense.