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*spoilers abound*

I posted yesterday about a highly overtuned fight and.. I was wrong. I thought that I had known overtuned meant until I did the final fight in this act.

What.. the literal fk.. I cheesed the fight by putting my entire party sans main character out the front gate.. started the dialogue with 3pots+frost shield on a geared dwarf tank teleported him out (running out would proc 600 damage opportunity attack) on my mages turn.

2 of the magisters did not participate in the fight for the first few rounds. I then bombared the front door with fire and poison as they funneled through and took damage. The only 3 that made it into the first 3 rounds are the gheist the rogue and the bishop

So far the fight is the most ideal it could be 2 didnt join 3 funneled through damage and its 4v3. The gheist focuses my 2h warrior and armor saved his life however the number of attacks that npc has is insanely ludicrous. The rogue I widdle down his magic resist and stun him and the bishop I teleport out the room to have to run to us again.

So again 100% ideal situation bishop did not get to attack and minimal damage from the other 2 (because if he did your completely overtuned damage would 1 shot anyone but the dwarf)

I kill the gheist and rogue while the magister knight works his way in. I knock out the bishops shields and freeze him. At this time the giant worm pops up luckily im in the other room and second luck was the worm deciding the magister caster that has not participated in the fight would be a good target.

The magister knight finally makes it in while bishop freeze breaks the magister knight then 2 shots my warrior who was weakened by the gheist because for some god unknown reason the sword and board hits harder than a 2 hand warrior. Meanwhile my dwarf with damned good gear (completely explored map before fight) tickles with his 1 hander.

At this point the worm has killed the magister that hasnt fought at all and decides to join us outside. Emerging between my spread out rogue and healer dealing moderate damage and knocking down. bishop even with a giant worm which we dialogue is after us both decides to target my healer luckily she lives through the stupidly op strike and yet again teleports him outside the room.

My rogue and Dwarf take out the magister knight because as scary as the worm is the knight hits just as hard and doesnt have astronomical armor and hp. Before the end of the turn the worm kills my mage and my rogue resurrects the 2h warrior.

The next turn the worm petrifies the fresh ressed warrior and luckily for me decides to shoot the bishop. I use this opportunity to res the mage and do some damned good damage to the worms armor and magic defense barrier.

Following turn the worm instantly gibs the mage again before she could act (res put her on bottom of initiate) followed by the petrified warrior. Its now 2v2 and the bishop hasnt figured out who he wants to fight so I use a freezing arrow on him and then focus both on the worm due to gear and dodge luck I survive 2 turns and get the worm down to about 40% health. The worm kills the dwarf warrior by petrification + shooting him to death and the rogue sets on killing the worm and ignoring the bishop.

The bishop heads in and actually hits the worm I think "Hurrah! I will deal with him when the worm is gone" next round I deal more damage to the worm and the bishop stops his worm assault to "Blinding radiance" 1 shot the ranger.

Conclusion: This is the second fight where I am absolutely sure it was designed by an asshole. Every NPC has rogue level initiave scores regardless of class, they all hit like a mac truck dual wielding freight trains regardless of class even their grenades deal 100+ damage, Mid fight when exploits go my way and I might win you then introduce a CC immune raid boss who would be difficult 4v1 let alone on top of still having to deal with the magisters. The bishops entire kit can 1 shot anyone who isnt a tank and a crit can one shot the max geared tank. His max range AoE blind deals massive damage as if blind wasn't bad enough.The only thing the ice dragon who owed me favor did was kill some shriekers and make ice spots then peace out.

TL;DR I exploited NPC tactics/pathing had ideal circumstances, chain CCd the bishop, and still lost. Did all side quests got all gear from the puzzles+Braccus gear+ vendor blues. Having got the worm and the bishop to 25% with a ton of luck you can absolutely win this fight but you programmed the AI to be as cheesy as possible.