Originally Posted by Grudgebearer
Originally Posted by Zenith
Originally Posted by Grudgebearer
Originally Posted by Zenith
In my playthrough Bulette didn't even burrow out until I reached the Sussur tree loaction.

I'm also not sure why people are even attempting a lv5 boss without having a source of Bless in the party to actually land skills on a mob 1 level over you.

In that party comp 3 out of 4 didn't even have Darkvision.

Your playthrough is the exception and not the rule given that the Bulette can and does regularly show up near the minotaur patrol area and can show up during the battle. As to bless or being 5th level, I'm not sure how you can type that with any seriousness considering the bulette can take flying bellyflops off of high ground and do 250 damage to multiple party members.


Bulette legit knocked me down while crossing near minotaurs, but it's pretty obvious she has specific spawn points to trigger out of. The lower ramp near minotaurs and the sussar zone are examples.

And why would Bulette have high ground on you to begin with. She did a Bellyflop on 3 of my teammates and missed 2 thanks to mirror images, bless, and armor of faith granting me 30+ AC.

I don't get the complaint.



Legit 2 shot of Bulette.

Some of you are exaggerating the difficulty of the encounter or running really suboptimal comps.

And the answer to that is to blame Larian for making so many classes and spells and companions sheer, weak traps, and making consumables and martial classes so comparatively strong.

Doesn't help the elven races are vastly superior to the rest thanks to immunity to sleep, darkvision, saving throw against charm, and +2 DEx giving more initiative and one more AC.

Meanwhile Tieflings get trash racials with fire resistance and +2 charisma which is only worth anything to a warlock. And humans even worse.

Elves+ Dwarves>>>>every other race by a long shot.

How does the Bulette get height advantage on you? It all depends on where it lands.
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Your AC doesn't matter when it comes to the leap, it can be 3 or 30, if you don't make your strength or dexterity save, then you take full damage, half with a save.
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As to that video, I've seen it, it's a prime example of how Larian has broken DnD with their homebrew rules, and ridiculous choices, like allowing anyone to use scrolls. It breaks the game, and the only way the bulette is 2-hit is by exploiting the poor design, and the fact that the player knew exactly where the bulette was coming out of the ground in that encounter. It was cheese just like finding a spot on the map that was inaccessible if he put the flaming sphere in front of him, and blocked out the minotaur.

It's a poorly designed encounter; one of many.


Wish I would have youtubed my kill on Bulette to put this crap to rest. If you get it to spawn on you with Minotaurs, you had crap luck, and you do what you do when you fail dialogue rolls; you reload the save.

The Strength Save on his leap is completely negated by potion of giant strength or being an elf character with a DEX of 18+ by that point.

You pulled the one time you got cheesed by a mob to complain about it being OP. If you spread your team before he burrows out the leap may at best kill two people.

And in that video no scrolls were used. In his other videos he's killed the minotaurs without the flameball trick or push tricks. His battle wizard just hammered down the first minotaur in 1 turn and then the other one died shortly afterwards since they are weak to hammers.

And if he can learn where the mob will spawn, so can you. I learned the mob doesn't spawn unless you walk down the ramp of the minotaurs while it's there. Otherwise it spawns at the Sussar tree. Instead you walk the highroad to the Myconid colony to the right side and Bulette never spawns.

Not that it matters where he spawns if you bothered to kill the Minotaurs beforehand. All you need is a single Lazel Frightening Strike to CC him to death.

The point isn't even his cheese, it's that he killed the mob in two turns with a single character. You have 4 to do the job.

Last edited by Zenith; 15/03/21 06:18 AM.