Have him start and stay in his Ascension form for Tactician+.
OMG I did not even know he has an actual true form!
I'm seriously so saddened now... he transforms only
AFTER a pillar is destroyed, which I completely ignored because he seemed to only ever use them for healing so figured who cares I'll just keep smacking him.
Which also didn't do much for him in terms of resistances because Shadowheart planar binds him quite easily with all the pillars up and after his lackeys died he ended up perma stun-locked from 450hp all the way down to 0 because my Minthara is built to completely debuff and shut down a single target with just her reverberating attacks via
[Boots Of Stormy Clamour] that may cause targets to go Prone after massively losing their saving throws via
[Gloves Of Baneful Striking], while Lae'zel is a Fighter/Tiger Barb who
AOE Maims targets so they can't move, which is why she can attack Raphael even while charmed.
Well
tsk'va! Next run I'm destroying his stupid pillars immediately so he can put up a proper fight. Really sucks how the player can entirely miss out on the core essence of the fight like this
