I've run into a serious problem with this fight an I'm not sure it's even possible to win it now. Me and a friend started a Lone Wolf playthrough (mage and 2H fighter) about a week ago and we've just gotten up to the first part of this fight, where it turns out to be pretty much impossible to win, due to Astarte being the dumbest and most useless NPC in the game.

She will happily run into all the deathknights and despite summons, they will often aggro on her anyway (even if she by chance actually stays back). On top of that, she often uses her abilities incorrectly and can only heal herself for 82 damage, despite the knights hitting her for some 500. You can't teleport the Princes, even after removing invincibility (but you can on the summoned ones, it seems) and there just isn't enough AP to go around to both keep her and my friend alive.

It's incredibly frustrating to have played 40 hours or so and then being forced to lose because the massive final battle is essentially an Escort Mission of the worst kind. I'd like to point out that it's not because either of us die: I can keep him going for a very long time and he's ridiculously tanky as it is. We lose because Astarte does something stupid and then no amount of crowd control or AP can save her, thanks to Deathknight invincibility. It seems like a fairly big design oversight to include a suicidal NPC who must stay alive at any cost and then not do something to buff her or weaken the enemies, based on the amount of party members present (or at the very least let the player control her).

The game has occasionally been tough, but always fair, which somehow doesn't apply to the final fight. It's just a shame if 40 hours of nonstop fun has been ruined by an incredibly imbalanced fight in the end, so I hope someone has some protips. It just shouldn't be this problematic to win the final battle with two players, considering the game is also balanced around the Lone Wolf concept.

Did they just straight up forget to rebalance her for the fight?

Last edited by Zinn; 22/09/14 04:03 AM.