Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Beta Bugs and balance suggestions

yep, this is frustrating i have to admit. During the last beta, this happened to me:

during a boss fight, i used jahan to cast firefly to burn away some summons. of course this created a huge fire surface, what was not a problem because everyone in my party was safe where he was. Because i did not want to create a party wipe after combat, my plan was to cast rain before the fight ends. But my rain-spell was recharging, so i had to be careful with doing dmg to the boss, to make sure the fight goes on until my spell was ready again, so the boss killed my main char - i sacrificed him basically - during the fight. In the end, Madora critted so hard, that the boss died right one turn before Jahan was able to use rain again. Fight ended, party restored the formation, everyone died in fire. Right next to the party-wipe notification, i saw at least 2 legendary items laying around ^^. Of course, after re-load and doing the fight again, the loot was cheap blue crap, bwaha ^^.

Also this was strange, because i used rain first before i entered combat. rain didn't last long, because i started it in real-time, but the recharge took longer because i was in combat now.

so basically i wiped because the boss was killed earlier than expected.

what i do now is just separate the characters during the fight, so that they stay where they are after combat, then heal and remove the hazards as good as possible and restore the party as soon as everything is safe.