Who was harder: Belranga or Huani? My second attempt at both bosses and tips that can help.

[raffster]

So I went at Belranga and Huani  O Weh a second time just for kicks (same party I used the first time I beat them) but did some tweaks to see if there's gonna be any difference.

 

I decided to go at Huani O Weh first and beat it after four attempts.   Then I went to Belranga and beat it quite easily, almost on full AI mode, just keeping my main character with high health to ensure he wouldn't die.

 

New insights on Huani fight:

 

Pre battle preparations:  Main character must be high defense tank (~130 Deflection) filled with 10 Potion of Miraculous healing, 10 Potions of Major Healing.  Backup tank, DPS character should have at least 10 Potions of Major Healing, spell casters have 5 potions of Major Healing, 10 Scrolls of Meteor Shower, 5 Scrolls of Maelstorm) Both spell casters configured to be able to cast healing or rejuvenate spells.  Scroll of Holy Fire can be used to replace Scroll of Maelstorm but won't do as much damage.

 

Use shark soup on all characters for rest before the fight.

 

My party:  Main Character:  Crusader with highest possible defense build using all corrosive damage protection items (amulet, armor, ring) 2 x ring of greater regeneration, modwry + cadhu scalth with maxed metaphysics for reduce damage taken)

Eder - Swashbuckler shield and sword configuration for highest defense, most points went to Fighter deflection attributes

Pallegina - Herald Build - all the chants that heal, incantations for raise dead and summon drake

Ydwin - Priest/Chanter Build - all healing spells up to Resurrection, all healing chants, incantation that raise dead and summon drake

Tekehu - Druid/Chanter - all rejuvenate spells, electric damage / all healing chants, incantation that raise dead and summon drake 

 

Huani O Weh needs to be defeated in five stages:  initial Stage  - Two Gigantic Oozes - Four Large Oozes - Eight Medium Oozes - 16 Small Oozes

 

When you're hit with that black corrosive ooze do not move or you're going to create a small ooze everywhere you walk.  You need to kill those quickly or else they will form into a bigger ooze.  This is really a pain so be very mindful every time you try to move.

 

You need to keep this in mind.

 

You need one character to tank Huani for the whole fight.  This character must have a deflection high enough (130+) to not get hit as often.  My MC is the tank I used against Huani and he has 140 Deflection.  The way I beat Huani the second time is as follows:

 

Use main tank to get Huani's attention and begin the fight.  You must draw Huani to the lower left side of the screen so your tank should be at the lower left hand side throughout the whole battle. I kept mine steady in one place by  activating The Wall property of using a large shield.  

 

Move the rest of your party to the right side of Huani, two melee characters begin to attack and two spell casters further to the right begin dumping Meteor Shower and/or Storm of Maelstorm.  Make sure the four characters to the right survive.  If any of the characters die before the first "split" of Huani, restart the fight.  You'll need all your characters to successfully complete the battle.

 

The first fight to split up Huani to the two gigantic oozes took around 15 minutes.  My tank had used up around 5 Potions of Miraculous Healing at that point.  My other characters are all full health but have sustained considerable injuries.  

 

Immediately after the first split, it is critical that you lure the ooze on the right side where your other characters are all the way to the upper right side of the screen.  You have done it correctly if the other gigantic ooze that your tank is still engaged in is not visible on the screen anymore.  That huge distance is necessary to avoid the two gigantic oozes to merge and you're back with another full health Huani.

 

As your tank is just basically killing time doing as much damage all by himself on the gigantic ooze not visible on your screen, your four other characters should blast the other gigantic ooze into two as quickly as possible.  I just poured around 5-6 Scroll of Meteor Shower along with melee attacks from my Swashbuckler and Herald.  This part took around 6-7 minutes. Get ready for the third phase where the gigantic ooze on the left splits into two large oozes.

 

As soon as the gigantic ooze splits into two, use one of your backup tanks or DPS character to lure one of the large oozes towards the left as far away from the other half as possible.  The large ooze with your three other characters on the left side now start to blast the large ooze into two.  Do this as quickly as possible because in around 4 minutes, the other large ooze will begin to move towards its other half to merge again. If this happens it's going to be much harder to split it in two because you're gonna be out of scrolls.

 

Kill the the two medium oozes of the left as quickly as possible.  They will turn into smaller oozes but those are easy to kill.   When the small oozes are all killed deal with the large ooze that is being tanked by your backup tank or DPS character.  Repeat the process to destroy this large ooze to split into medium oozes then small oozes.  When your four characters have completely destroyed all that remains of the original gigantic ooze from the first split up of Huani, move them all to the other gigantic ooze which should now be at least half health thanks to your tank.

 

Repeat the same process from above.  What's critical again is when the second split happens, the two large oozes need to be lured far from each other to avoid them rejoining and returning into its gigantic form.  If that happens, you might have  to restart the battle because you're probably out of scrolls at that point.

 

Once you split the other gigantic ooze into two it should be easier than the first time you did it because you have your main tank to help pitch in some damage.  

 

Once you've killed all the small oozes the battle is over.  Don't forget to collect the Mythic upgrade ingredient and the awesome Merge trinket that allows the character you equip it with to "possess" another one of your characters to become super human for 100 seconds.

 

Honestly I think Belranga was so much easier than Huani O Weh.  I was almost able to get the AI to do all the work for me for the Belranga Fight, and didn't use any high level elemental scroll to help.  But for the Huani fight if you make a mistake you'll end up with a full health Huani in the middle of the fight and you'll have to start over.  Walking to and from the oozes can also be a pain because you'll end up with little oozes behind you.  Just kill them off as quickly as possible to prevent them from turning into another gigantic ooze.

 

 

[brogenk]

I got Belranga in my first attempt in POTD but I have to admit I was extremley lucky. I think however that the succession of very lucky incidences may be reproduced to good effect. Here's how I did it

 

Party:

• Main (Elf, shadowdancer (assasin rogue/shattered pillar monk)),
• Custom made crusader (no subclass Fighter/Shield Bearers of St Elcga Paladin).
• Vatnir --> as priest
• Konstanten --> as chanter
• Mirke-->as monk

Important Notes:

• Shark food on everyone (important)
• Bone Setter's Torch (very important)

The Fight

My Original plan was to have my Crusader tank Belranga while I took care of as many spiders as possible while keeping him (my tank) as clear of spiders as possible. So I went in with my main and Mirke to the northeast path (a narrow path) and cleared it of spider burrows. I wanted my Crusader to stand comfortably there tanking Belranga and using the path as choking point to prevent spiders from pestering him... I went all wrong XD. I did destroy the burrows in the path but I go overwhelmed. My tank died and I brought him back to life with Vatnir and then had Vatnir use sawbones (a skill that you get from the Bone Settler's Torch necklace that Vatnir was wearing). The crucial thing here is that my tank did not die from a physical strike from Belranga, but from a spit (Belranga's other attack). I had my tank run up north on the path to recover some health but the pets tanking the boss died... and so did everyone else except by tank.

 

So basically I had about as much hope as Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan when he was firing his pistol at the tank... But like Tome Hanks... I survived and won XD

 

So here's how I turned the tide of this fight:

• Between Belranga and me there were a couple of medium sized spiders, those who have spitting attacks but to melee attacks. So they stood there spitting at me at a distance but never came towards me. Belranga couldn't advance towards me because it was being blocked by its own medium-sized spiders.
• I had used sawbones which makes you immune to the type of attack that kills you (although that doesn't seem to work with some other attacks and some other bosses) so I was immune from ALL spits, the spiders' and Belranga's.
• The rest of the army of spiders was locked out of the fight because they were behind Belranga

I had my crusader use his bow to fire on Belranga, killing the spiders would've cleared the way for Belranga and It would have killed me XD. and there I was... watching my crusader on auto-attack while texting and drinking water for what must've been like an hour. Not the most entertaining movie... but it got the job done (and it's quite the funny story, wouldn't you say?)