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Really pissed off with this one. First time in this encounter, now we're screwed. Everyone is dead except my character who is possessed and is just standing there...

Anybody got a solution? I'm looking into hacking the game and fixing this that way...

Yeah as far as this fight is concerned... The fast and furious way of doing it is to just kill the member who is possessed, then resurrect them. IIRC, the demon takes damage every time it is forced out like that. So just have a bunch of resurrection scrolls on everyone and make sure you have some good burst damage to land on the demon in one or two actions. Again, IIRC, the demon will possess another guy at the same time the second attack hits him. First time I killed this guy I only had to kill two guys of my party. If you have only one guy left and he's possessed... I don't think there's any way out of that, except by cheating, maybe.

Otherwise, to forced the demon out without killing the possessed member, you'd have to keep damaging and healing them at the same time. After a certain amount of damage is dealt, which is (I guess) based on the base HP of the possessed character, the next attack that brings the character to "near death" will forced the demon out. Soooo my advice is, prepare enough healing spells. Keep cc'ing the possessed char (without dealing too much damage) until your healing spells are back up. At least you have only one target, so it's not that hard to chain cc them. Teleport the possessed guy down into the pit whenever you can. Unless he has a teleport-type spell, he can't get out of there. So your team can stay around the ledge and bring the pain down.

Damaging the character while keeping them alive at the same time might be a pain cause there's the dwarf guy who will also throw his stuff at the character (at certain points I really, really wanted to kill this guy too!). So another good idea is to save the game like at every turn, in separate slots. The second time I killed this guy I managed to keep everyone alive, but the fight lasted for quite a while, and I had like 10 save slots just for this fight.

Anyway, I'd say that the key is to chain/cycle your cc's and healings in a reasonable way. Having good burst damage helps keep the fight short, but is less important.

There might be some "trick" ways to do this, too. I once managed to get the whole team out of combat, with only the Bone Widow fighting the demon. The Bone Widow can't be possessed, and is strong as hell, so it actually managed to get him to near death, then my party just went in and cleaned up. This was before the Bone Widow was nerfed, of course.

You might also want to try Peace of Mind, see if it works. The demon will possess the one that last attacks it.

Thanks for the lengthy reply.

Unfortunately, this is an honour mode run and we're Lone Wolves. I got possessed and insta-gibbed my SO and the useless dwarf, lmao.

Can't recover from that. RIP the run. I love bullshit fight mechanics. I hate Larian so much lately.

No, there's absolutely no buff that works once possessed. I tried them all.

I also never managed to keep the dwarf alive. Some were hinting at bringing him to an inch of death while still chained, but it never worked because either it was too little or he actually died.

Oh...


...ooookay. Now that's a different story. I didn't know.

I suppose this is one particular situation where having fewer people means exponentially bigger pain. But yeah, I can't quite imagine how you can manage to damage and cc and heal all at the same time with just one char... There's probably an "unconventional" way to pull this off with two Lone Wolves, though.




I meant using Peace of Mind beforehand to block the possession, not to remove it when it's already done. I don't know if it works, just thought maybe it works like with another particular demon...

Forcing the demon out of the dwarf guy while keeping him alive takes quite a bit of repeated damaging/healing/damaging...

Yeah, this is 1 of the gamestoppers. I play solo lonewolf and I have to skip that demon, simply because when it possesses you there is nothing you can do about it. This is the 1 fight you literally cannot do solo.

this fight is definitely as bad as it gets for honour runs. you have to know what to do beforehand and even then, be extremely careful about knocking people out. if you don't care about saving the dwarf, that at least solves one of your problems, but as for your companions, the best you can do is just keep them healed while you hit them

edit: sorry to hear about your run though, that's really frustrating. hopefully you can forgive larian and try another run at some point

Yeah, we weren't expecting complete bullshit fight mechanics out of nowhere. You can make the fight crazy, like that flaming scarecrow lady near Hannag and Jahan, but permanently possessing and essentially charming one of your guys when you only have 2 is just broken.

It's just a lousy encounter and is a real kidney shot if you don't know exactly what's going to happen.



Aww, thank you. <3

I doubt we will, they've been dropping the ball hard lately and don't seem to care. At the very least,
Our 4-man campaign worked out!