Larian Studios Forums Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga / Flames of Vengeance (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Hall of Echos - Kara and John

First, my game is patched to the latest.

Immediately upon starting the fight I'm hit with something that does over 500 damage per second. I've reloaded nearly 20 times now and no amount of jumping or skill usage avoids it. Using the shield does nothing, and no potion I have (Ok, I have one crappy potion because I'm a moron for not being prepared) can keep up with the ticking damage. The autosave outside the arena is pretty much useless since the way back is blocked. The closest save I have is 2 levels ago.

What can I do here?

edit: Just tried it 10 more times. It looks like some sort of missile as I don't see any effect on the ground, but no amount rolling or dodging can avoid it. It takes me from 950 HPs to 0 in 1 second.

i assume you're playing it on the PC? this is a noted bug in the game- where you're slammed with a "instant kill" spell [as you can't survive long enough] during random boss fights.

you have two choices- one, start a new game. sucks, i know. or contact Larian Support for help fixing this bug.

Well, I finally had to resort to using a trainer to get through it. I have no idea why there aren't simple debug commands available to get around problems like this. Not every player wants to have to send a save to the developers just to continue playing the game.

Larian never made cheats or a debug console available for their games. I strongly dislike this closed approach as I always like to play around with cheats or a console on the nth or xth playthrough... but this is as it is.
And as it's basically the only thing I really dislike about their games, it's not such a bad thing.

I pretty much had the same, but with Baal.

Fortunately it took some time for him to charge this, so just killing him fast helped me get past.

You can also get by with setting the difficulty to Casual. The bugged attack is still
there, but the damage it does drops to the point you can survive it. The reset to
to Normal right afterward.