My solution using a Bard with Gale, Karlach and Shadowheart,

Put Karlach into the middle of the fight as quickly as I could. let her start going nuts with her two handed sword. I used Spirit Guardians with Shadowheart, also wading her into the middle of the fight and then began casting Mass Healing Word. This healed the Gonidians as well as my party. My bard used Call Lighting to hit a few enemy targets at once and failing that also used Arrow of Many Targets from his hand Crossbow. Gale made us of Magic Missile and Witch Bolt to keep enenies tied down.

Between the healing and the various area effect spells the Gonidans stayed alive fine. When the controller dropped I immediately moved Gale or whoever was closest over to disarm it. At the end of the upper level I only lost a single Gondian.

Last edited by Zentu; 09/09/23 06:24 PM.