Such amazingly hard!

wat?

Video 97% uploaded.

This is one fight where I actually used per-rest spells, but didn't ultimately have much fuss. "Tank & Spank" still applies here, but you'll have a much easier time if you focus on keeping the Ogre out of the fight. Once he drops, there isn't much to fuss about. My party was level 5 at the time.

This is one fight where I actually used per-rest spells, but didn't ultimately have much fuss. "Tank & Spank" still applies here, but you'll have a much easier time if you focus on keeping the Ogre out of the fight. Once he drops, there isn't much to fuss about. My party was level 5 at the time.

Difficulty?

 

Cause I'm on PotD level 10, and they're whooping my ass.

 

So many bees

Yup all those bees on Potd are hard.

 

I couldnt beat it at level 9:

 

 

Tried many times.

 

Main problem for me is deflection is useless vs bees.

Edited April 12, 201510 yr by Mungri

I beat it on Hard on first try with lvl 9 party. Not that hard but long and boring fight. Showing in all glory why PoE combat system is bad compared to BG.

Beeeeeeees, beeeeeeeeeeees! Beeeeeeeeeees!

 

I beat it on Hard on first try with lvl 9 party. Not that hard but long and boring fight. Showing in all glory why PoE combat system is bad compared to BG.

 

*eye roll*

 

This is one fight where I actually used per-rest spells, but didn't ultimately have much fuss. "Tank & Spank" still applies here, but you'll have a much easier time if you focus on keeping the Ogre out of the fight. Once he drops, there isn't much to fuss about. My party was level 5 at the time.

Difficulty?

 

Cause I'm on PotD level 10, and they're whooping my ass.

 

So many bees

 

 

BEADS ???

Lol 'hard'.

 

Lol.

 

Potd or gtfo.

This is one fight where I actually used per-rest spells, but didn't ultimately have much fuss. "Tank & Spank" still applies here, but you'll have a much easier time if you focus on keeping the Ogre out of the fight. Once he drops, there isn't much to fuss about. My party was level 5 at the time.

Lvl 5? I have a feeling you're thinking about a different set of Ogres.

 

Also, while I know the video is optional-clickable, the topic as a whole could be spoilery, so I'm moving it.

You know that you can use traps and seals before the battle , don't you ?

The cave ogre (the one in the  test game?)? He didn't even touch my characters. L0L

Haven't tried this on PotD so I don't really know anything, but from watching your vid you're really lacking in crowd control use.  

Edited April 13, 201510 yr by Climhazzard

*damn* didn't notice I got ninja'd on Oprah bees.

Edited April 12, 201510 yr by Ichthyic

too many walls used as aoe spells.

walls, while they do good interrupt, are easy to move out of in an open space like this and do relatively little damage to ogres per tick.

you're better off using disabling aoe's like chill fog, slick, noxious burst (especially), or confusion (which is just brutal)... and since you're level 9... malignant cloud would be better than firewalls.

that's not even counting the myriad druid aoes like storms.

also, did you not even try to heal your guys during the fight?  use potions?  anything?

how did you get THIS far?

 

Edited April 12, 201510 yr by Ichthyic

I beat it on Hard on first try with lvl 9 party. Not that hard but long and boring fight. Showing in all glory why PoE combat system is bad compared to BG.

It's a PotD thread on the fight. I'm not a difficulty elitist (people should play whatever level they consider fun imo) but you can't really compare Hard to PotD. I ended up quitting my hard run of the game in Act 3 because I hadn't even had one character suffer a knockdown, much less come close to a party wipe, and was just getting bored.

So had anyone actually noticed that I had named the video 'Path of Exile'? LOL.

too many walls used as aoe spells.

 

walls, while they do good interrupt, are easy to move out of in an open space like this and do relatively little damage to ogres per tick.

 

you're better off using disabling aoe's like chill fog, slick, noxious burst (especially), or confusion (which is just brutal)... and since you're level 9... malignant cloud would be better than firewalls.

 

that's not even counting the myriad druid aoes like storms.

 

also, did you not even try to heal your guys during the fight?  use potions?  anything?

 

how did you get THIS far?

 

 

 

Confusion is IMO the way to make the fight against any mob of Ogres a lot easier.  Nothing like getting them to turn on each other.  The problem with trying to kill them without any sort of mental spells that get some of them to turn on their buddies is that a mob of ogres has a LOT of health, and taking all that health before they chop you down is rather difficult and painful.  But when you use confusion or any other mental spells to get them to switch sides and attack each other, you're turning their strength against them and getting them to work for you.

 

Get'em to turn on each other and help the ones who are attacking the red ones.  And when the spell wears off, time to rinse and repeat as needed.

Just finished it (on hard, 9/10 level), then checked the guide, and apparently

this is supposed to be a bounty quest, and one of the ogres should have a name. The guide says that if you don't have the quest, there will be just loot in the cave, but in my case the ogres were all there, but they didn't drop anything other than ogre blood. I wonder if I get the quest later, would they respawn?

 

 

I beat it on Hard on first try with lvl 9 party. Not that hard but long and boring fight. Showing in all glory why PoE combat system is bad compared to BG.

It's a PotD thread on the fight. I'm not a difficulty elitist (people should play whatever level they consider fun imo) but you can't really compare Hard to PotD. I ended up quitting my hard run of the game in Act 3 because I hadn't even had one character suffer a knockdown, much less come close to a party wipe, and was just getting bored.

 

It is? How? I don't see PotD mentioned in title or OP post.

i crafted 10 paralyze scrolls and pretty much locked them down

I have a question. I took the bounty quest with Narlend the Wise before I got to Elmshore. Will the ogres not involved in the quest respawn in the cave after some time or not? Does anyone know?

They should be there after the bounty got cleared. At least that's the case with all other places where a bounty removes other monsters for the time it's active.