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Okay, this game has pissed me off in parts with it's difficulty. I enjoy sort of getting through games at a decent pace with a bit of a challenge. With this game I set it to the easiest difficulty pretty early on as I felt it was really hard in spots.

Each time I had trouble though I just found somewhere to grind and after levelling up a bit made it through.

On the last battle though. No where to run, no where to hide and with the build I made I can't summon anything beyond my creature so I get raped. I've tried it about 50 times and get one shotted pretty much by the level 34 enemy every time. What really pissed me off is that I have a stupid 1 point achievement (360) and can't get the 99 point one without finishing this stupid fight.

You devs need to be careful what you do with difficulty in your games. If you have a "low" difficulty option make the difficulty low and give everyone (not just the hardcore people) a chance to enjoy your game.

Patch it so I can finish it or can someone offer some advice or a glitch I can abuse to finish this game before I sell it off in disgust.

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I like a good challenge, but I agree that the "easy" option should definitely be easy enough for any average joe to get through it without pulling their hair out.


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If u didnt save 2 far back, u could try and level up a bit more then do the last battle.


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Originally Posted by Freewheeler
If u didnt save 2 far back, u could try and level up a bit more then do the last battle.


The last fight is hard even if you are level 35 that is about high as you can get, few mistakes of having wrong skills and it's almost impossible even if you turn difficulty level to easy.

I agree that easy option in the game should tone down bosses a little more.

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Originally Posted by Freewheeler
If u didnt save 2 far back, u could try and level up a bit more then do the last battle.


I didn't unfortunately. I had one save in the arena but had no luck teleporting or backtracking from there. I might give it another shot but at level 31 with a focus on magic missle, reflect and regen it seems I'm screwed.

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Originally Posted by beelzebubble

I didn't unfortunately. I had one save in the arena but had no luck teleporting or backtracking from there. I might give it another shot but at level 31 with a focus on magic missle, reflect and regen it seems I'm screwed.


I dont think it's even possible to win as level 31, i hope you have saves in Orobas Fjords so you can start levelling from there.

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Another NERD RAEG thread.
*Le sigh*

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Originally Posted by Kein
Another NERD RAEG thread.
*Le sigh*


The guy is stuck with impossible fight because of his level and he maybe saved over his earlier saves while he was moving forward so have to start from scratch again and thats all you can come up with "nerd rage" please if that's all you can say dont bother posting.

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The guy is stuck with impossible fight because of his level

That's why there is exist a Help/Tips/Tricks section.

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posting in an outdated thread:

I'm happy to say that I managed to pull off the last battle with my lvl 31 ranger.
The biggest key to the success was to burst down the lvl 34 Divine guy.
And then again, I had Summon ghost 10/10 skill, ranger strenght 10/10, way of the ranger activated.
My creature had also a head piece which gave him missiles 8 and blast 8.

Took me around 30 tries to beat it.

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Congratulations on finishing at a pretty low level. One person mentioned the final fight being very difficult on level 30, and another reported finishing at level 26 (near the end of Ygerna's memory battle - I hate you!), though with a very indirect technique.


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I need help with a battle (Spoilers) Ygerna's memory

help im stuck in hall of echoes

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after finnishing the battle with my 31 ranger, I started a new game, this time with a warrior/paladin or however you call it.
Dude... I'm using a 2 hander sword, but I'm ripping people apart. At level 9 I was smashing groups of 4-5 level 11 rangers and stuff.
Whirlwind is just amazing...
I'm curious in seeing how difficult will be the last fight with my warrior now.

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I loved the end battle. A end battle should be challenging. However, me and my two summons basically destroyed everything and everyone in that room.

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finnished the game again with my warrior. level 33 with 49% melee resist, 38% ranged resist, 39% magic resist.
lmao annihilated everything on the second try =))
I have to admit my warrior is geared out like crazy.
4 Uther set pieces and the ultimate evil 2h sword laugh crits for 1150 =))

PS: 1 point in mana leech = impossible to go out of mana.

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I have to agree with some of the comments on this thread. I have enjoyed playing this game for the most part. I have noticed that the difficulty level of the game seems to fluctuate in certain areas, to the point that I have just skipped certain events because I became too frustrated. I am at the final dragon fight now, and I doubt that I will actually finish the game. I do agree that a boss fight should be challenging, but this one is a bit too extreme for me. After multiple attempts, I am still unable to complete this section and I'm just too darn irritated to try again lol. Also, after spending so much time on foot in Aleroth, I had forgotten how to fight as a dragon by the time I got here. I consider the first couple of attempts just a refresher course on dragon fighting.

On a positive note, as I said, I did enjoy playing the game up to this point. Also, I have received great support when I had a few technical problems. I had the bug where characters disappeared and was amazed at how quickly Larian responded! A+ in that department!

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The FoV forum has a couple topics about that battle (I'm still waiting on the North American Xbox release of DKS, since my PC doesn't meet the minimum specs for D2:ED/FoV/DKS).

There was going to be another area similar to Broken Valley in the add-on, but it was dropped due to resources (would have delayed the release by the better part of a year). Larian figured the game overall needed more of a human hub than dragon area, so that was what they concentrated on.


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Originally Posted by TonZa
Originally Posted by Freewheeler
If u didnt save 2 far back, u could try and level up a bit more then do the last battle.


The last fight is hard even if you are level 35 that is about high as you can get, few mistakes of having wrong skills and it's almost impossible even if you turn difficulty level to easy.

I agree that easy option in the game should tone down bosses a little more.


I ended at level 38

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i finnished at lvl 35 . thank god i saved the game at the entrance so i was able to go back & complete all the remaining opened quests to gain some more levels b4 going to aleroth . final fight was easy .spamming magic missile @ lvl 10 did more than half of the job . a few swings with my sword and the game was over. Not sure why but it seemed like the Divine has a problem getting to me in time , giving me way too much time to reduce his HP .

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I am a level 42 Mage and I just tried twice to do the final battle and failed on easy. My husband was an archer and he never got the zeppelin into the base so I decided to come see what others offered as advice on this. Seems like I am in for Hell even at level 42. I will keep trying but I know my personality is that if I sit here for an hour and can't finish the mission I will stop playing. Sad but true. I hate repeating things over and over again.


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I started the escort mission on level 46 (mid forties are common for the end level of FoV/DKS; not sure what the low end of the range is). I paused the game right away to reassign skill buttons (to match the configuration I had them before), and to re-equip the armour I had on at the end of D2:ED (with +40% Offence and +40% HP bonuses).
Quoted from another topic, I described how I did this section in the spoiler below. Dragon dash (left shoulder button on Xbox, right mouse button on PC) may have helped if I had remembered to use it. Also, I didn't realize you get another skill when the zeppelin captain tells you they can bombard a target you select (thought it was automatic, since shortly after mentioning that they targeted the same tower I attacked; after that I was mostly too far ahead to notice what the zeppelin was doing).
For the zeppelin escort, my first attempt was using a less than optimal strategy. The glitchy Target Lock (that doesn't necessarily lock) and target selection didn't help, either. If I'm pointed directly at a nest, in range, and hit the right stick, why the heck would the game target a flying demon way above me, or off to the side, and not at least cycle around to the nest? Anyway, the zeppelin made it to the point the captain decided to change the plan [spoiler] and kamikaze, but Zandalor barely finished saying there must be another way when it was destroyed.

I reloaded my save at the start of the escort, and attempted to be more systematic clearing the nests and towers. When available I tried to use the Wrath of the Patriarch on the densest cluster that was relatively close, and then flew around taking out individual structures and smaller groups, and also summoned a wyvern whenever I had a moment and thought of it (which wasn't often), figuring an extra target might help the zeppelin. I started off doing much better, but when Zandalor told me to redouble my efforts I noticed the zeppelin's health had dropped a fair bit. Looking back, I discovered it was mostly passed a platform that I had missed clearing 4 or 5 ballistas from. Rather than try getting to the end I reloaded a save from a few minutes previous, and made sure I didn't miss anything the next time. Somewhere after the mid point but before the final section I went up to level 47. The zeppelin's health started getting a little low towards the end, but they made it
to the fiery death they were destined for.
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Flames of Vengeance Zeppelin Escort

Zeppelin Problems

Zeppelin Escort


Here is a YouTube video of the escort mission, which may help you get an idea of what to do.


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