[Act 2] Solo Death Knight (pal/wiz) - Death by Myrkul - Honour Mode
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
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Death is only the beginning! Buckle up for a long fight. Hopefully you can pick up something in it that's worth knowing
At the moment we are Level 9. Two Levels of Oathbreaker and Seven Levels of Necromancer. We've progressed a bit into the game and the multi-class is starting to get the correct feel. I really like that attackers get damaged when they miss us and the spells also feel thematic.
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Death is only the beginning! Unfortunately this is the end for this run. I did mess up quite a bit (was bound to happen I guess) and also not doing enough damage. If I were to do this again I'd probably just hoard Globe of Invulnerability + some rare damage scroll and go to town on Myrkul. I don't really enjoy such tactics but I think it might be a must. If you do happen to give this boss a try with a death knight please record it and let me know
Sad to see your perish, but do not be upset, you'll do better next time. Can't wait to see new solo run by you
Learned so much and started a Tactician run (my first) based on this build. Live Long and Prosper Kithari 🙌
Ouch.. looking forward to the next run
this dude also ruined my first honor mode run (not counting short ones), not even solo, with a full fledged party xD I just wasn't ready to bone-chilled, which completely nullified my cleric
what's amazing about this game is that you actually want to try again, even after several failures in a very late stage, incredible replay potential
ironic that the death knight fell to the godly avatar of what they stood for. this was tough to watch, but you did well on this run overall! rip kithari, she was iconic. hope her next in line will pick up what she left off!
It is kind of fitting :)
Just a tip for next time, you can use an invisible scratch to help nightsong
They made Murkul so ridiculously hard on honour mode in the new patch
Yea this was tough
What did they change?
As it should be tbh
@@mewple gave him 100 extra health and a bunch of resistances, including bludgeon pierce and slash resistance
@@shotmcduck that seems absurd lol
It was an Honour Kithari. May your honourable attempt be remembered by the gods. May your courage feed the next hero that will try this challenge.
Long live Kithari
It was an honour....mode? Wha-heyyyyy
@@unbelievablytrash9458 pun intended🗿👌🏿
It’s a shame to see Kithari die, but don’t feel to down, this is one of the toughest fights in my opinion, I nearly lost my honor run here and I had a full party. Excited for the next series!
Thanks for the encouragement! It is really tough since (it feels like) a damage race and the build just ain't very bursty. I'd love to see someone kill Myrkul with the build!
Looking forward to your next attempt. This run has been educational and entertaining. Thanks for the effort.
Glad to hear! I've picked up quite a few tricks too from comments :)
I came to your channel as soon as you replied to my comment on your community post, i couldnt believe it when you said “I wish i did :)”.
Honestly this broke my heart because your run had so much potential, and i thought this fight wouldve been manageable for you as you conquered many rough fights in the past.
Alas, dame aylin didnt prove to be of much help to you unfortunately…
I hope your next build will be amazing too, and the one that goes through honor mode, as i will definitely be watching.
It was a pretty rough defeat for sure. I think I might give this another go at some point if I can come up with a better plan for Myrkul 😅
@@FriendlyLich if you stack a bit of arcane acuity and cast a stinking cloud on top him he cant take actions anymore and since he cant move he has no way to avoid it other than saving throws. i dont know if his healing is part of an action or bonus action but it makes the fight a lot easier nontheless.
@@hornbach9279 That is hilarious. Thanks for the info!
Respect for posting this. Really enjoyed this series and I’m sad to see it go.
You had a great run ! Looking forward to the next one !
Protection From Evil and Good is really helpful against Apostole of Myrkul since he is undead and the spell prevent you from being frightened by them. One of my first solo honour mode attempts would really have benefitted from it, too. This was a fun run to watch, keep it up!
Oh that is a very good point. The damage output on the build might still be an issue for this build but it would certainly help survival with that spell!
I'm so sorry about Kithari! o7 But fear not, the Valkyries will come and collect her soul for Valhalla, where she will feast with ALL of our fallen champions of Honour Mode!
I'm really glad I stumbled upon your channel, and that I got to follow along for the majority of Kithari's journey! It's been super fun watching you be a master of Tactics and Combat, and basically winning a lot of the fights before the first punch is even thrown, so to speak. I'm really looking forward to your next run! Good luck, and most importantly, have fun!!! :D
To the death! Super glad to have you on board and thank you for the kind words =)
Loved this playthrough, watched every day. Just finished my own campaign on tactician with the same build. Looking forward to the next one!
I've only seen a fight or two a few weeks ago, and now several of the most recent ones, so I've yet to watch everything, but I've already learned so much from your videos. I started honor mode recently, mostly to force myself to stick to my decisions and really think about what I'm doing in fights, as well as to pay more attention to builds, what spells I have equipped and how they work together, using elixirs more etc. I doubt I'll even make it to Ketheric, but I still think it'll be worth it just to learn more about the tactical side of the game, and I'll be referencing your videos a lot. Thanks for this run.
Gg, i had loved watching the run and was sad to see it end. I wish you the best of luck on the next run!
just as i started following her journey too :^[ that ending was so rough to watch, cant count how many times a thrown potion hasnt healed me or has healed an enemy in my games. looking forward to what comes next!
It was spectacular!
Good job!
Wish you luck with next run!!!
GG , was a good run!Excited for next run new build looks great!
Such a good run. I have faith for the next one!
props for posting a failed run. You can learn from these just as much as you can learn from success.
Yea I hope someone manage to pick up something from it and save their run :)
Those smites!! But this was definitely such a hard battle on honormode. Good attempt!
Good luck on your next run! You’ll do it if you work hard!
Gg, you did very well! I also fought Myrkul yesterday in my first honour mode run. Unfortunately however, the game broke and decided to spawn another Ketheric with full Hp... decided to quit the game without saving and on my second attempt I luckily beat him.
Thanks, sad to see her go like that though. And oh boy that is _quite_ the bug you ran into! Haha that would had sucked!
Rest in peace kithari, i guess its kind of poetic that the Death Knight falls to the god of Undeath. It was a great run and i cant wait for your next attempt
Damn...
Lets run it back! I'm honestly itching to see you tackle the new legendary actions for Priestess Gut and Ragzlin. 😁
Looking forward to that as well! And the Shambling Mound :D
What are Guts legendary actions?
not the potion throw!! myrkul nudged your mouse out of range there -- i think you definitely could have had it. a shame, but what a fight!
Yeah that throw really sucked 😅
My favorite trick for Myrkul fight is walls of fire. He can actually get hit with them (despite being in the pit and not on the platform) and since he can't move it's good consistent damage.
Damn, i really liked watching this run, good try and hope you do a new one :D
Yeap! New run on the way. Got a lot of irl lich work this week but I'll start posting more regularly again soon :)
Counterspell should just always work if it gives prompt, as well as potion throws should just work and no dodge
BONE STORM!!! 🦴🌪️
F in the chat bois! good show sir, i was rooting for you this whole time so hard. My heart sank a few inches when Mykul ate a necromite OVER the wall of fire...thats rouuuuugh
Yeaaaaa that was rough to see
RIP, don't feel too bad I keep getting murked in act 1 haven't made it this far yet on a solo honor run.
I've sulked enough now :) It really did suck but I'll get a solo run eventually and so will you!
Sad to see her fall
In Shar’s Gauntlet, a room adjacent to the antechamber to Balthazar’s room (through the wood door) has a coffin shrine you can interact with to start a dialogue. Passing a Religion DC 14 (INT) check will grant you a buff that makes your resistant to Necrotic Damage till you next long rest. I highly recommend this as well as the three +5 CHA, INT, and WIS buffs obtainable from the other Shar Shrine below the town square.
Also, you can use Scratch to help/release the Ansur from her captive state at the start of the encounter saving you one turn. You can invis him and move him there and lock him in combat while you are out of combat if you are far enough away. I also think summons would do more work destroying all the pods before they burst.
I think with your build what you would want to find is some way to maintain a stasis while also limiting his summons, so that you could chip him down over time. You can disarm his massive scythe too, I’m just sure if your build included a disarming action.
I can't believe I forgot the +5 stats buff!! Oh jesh lol 😅
I was hoping to be able to destroy the pods with my Ghouls but they couldn't attack them (game would not allow it) :(. The conjured elemental can attack them though and Scratch as well.
Yea, the only thing I can think of is the Globe of Invuln scrolls while quaffing Speed Potions but that feels a bit cheesy. Would be cool with a more 'clean' strats. DO you know what attack he do if he lose the scythe? Ketheric's ring got a chance to disarm him (1 try only) but I was afraid he would do something more dangerous instead
@@FriendlyLich I believe instead of the Scythe Cleave, he does 'cold embrace' an attack with his claws, that does some physical damage and some cold damage. I'm not sure if it cleaves though.
Another Idea could be using the Amulet of the Unworthy (from the Minotours in the Underdark), it gives bludgeoning vulnerability but resistance to slashing, which i think is the type of damage his scythe deals. That combined with the necrotic resistance would mean you should resist all of his damage.
RIP Kithari. Thanks for letting us tag along to watch your journey, was an exciting one. A few thoughts on the fight:
You weren't out of range for counterspell, as you say in the video. Counterspelling a lv 7 spell (Finger of Death), you would need to pass a DC 17 Intelligence check, unless you used a lv 7 spell slot (which don't exist in BG3). You could have at least tried, instead of just slapping backlash.
Mirror Image seems of limited usefulness with so many Necromites alive. It looks like it got eaten up rather quickly. I feel like invisibility would have been a more surefire defensive measure, even if it is a little cheesy.
Elixir: I know you're set up to use giant's strength, but resistance elixir (necrotic or radiant) might have made the difference there at the end. Frightened is also pretty scary, Heroism or Calm emotions might be helpful there.
That's a lot of HP to chew through with your build, I honestly don't know how you were planning to do it. Still, great attempt and lots of fun to watch, can't wait for the next one.
Oh you are correct about Counterspell! I always just thought it was fail due to being too far away :/
The frightened condition is something I'll need to take care of / plan around for the next attempt. She could barely walk without the elixir but dumping gear before jumping into the hole (or put on ground I suppose) could take care of that too. Hmm, good thoughts. Thanks!
An honorable end,to be slain by a god's avatar.
Hate to see it! I have been following as I am doing an honor mode as an Oathbreaker wizard as well. Not solo. Up to the underdark in act 1. Will follow the Warlock as well! Good luck
Oh enjoy and good luck! It's such a super fun class combination in my opinion :D
Daaaamn, I've never seen the finger of death thing in any run, that was rough! And the potion throw was truly sad...
The issue with zombies not being able to attack the husks is a big one for real, since if they get on the platform they auto die to the first round of phase 2, not all summons have that issue (druid summons for example are all good for it). I finished yesterday my death knight duo run in modded honor mode/tactician plus, and it was a blast. Phase two of this fight was really bad for me as well, since all the summons get disadvantage at attacking with bone chill, so they can't do much there, but my main carried the fight anyway with extra attack, haste pot and smites with her damage rings and psionic overload (I went oathbreaker X/wiz 1/cleric 1 with main, wiz X/cleric 2 with astarion). However, the duo build was insane, because I was using tasha clerics (peace and twilight) + bless for summon accuracy and durability, so my undead army was unbeatable (also I had a mod to fix the oathbreaker aura which doesn't work in bg3 for some reason)! Although it was 2nd try, first try of the team build ended badly with Grym (found it easier to do with 1 character, and just had the other one wait outside the arena, having to damage to gain aggro is too unreliable even with bless and accuracy oils).
The stats adjustment of +80% hp and +2 to hit/save DC from tactician plus (in addition to tactician/honor stats) was scary, but the paladin aura and bless really worked for ignoring most saving throw effects. I went for duo run with insane enemy stats because in solo runs I always end up being too scared and it just becomes a 25 round kite fest for 90% of fights, while duo run is more forgiving of mistakes so I can boost enemies to the max and go all in anyway.
Looking forward to the Tiamat knight run, I wish you all the good dice!
Yeah the finger of death was really scary! Really hated that throw and it's painful to watch 😅
That duo build sounds a lot of fun. The aura not affecting unarmed attacks is really annoying and something I wish they'd fix. Not sure how it's implemented in DnD 5e but I think it should work regardless of how it works in the tt. And I agree about Grym btw. I find it easier to do solo (if you go for the hammer ofc, another thing with blunt melee gang up on him) than with X, since as you say the aggro is unreliable.
Thanks, hopefully it'll be a fun run! Haven't played a class split with majority warlock yet in BG3
@@FriendlyLich well, in the tabletop any attack can either be spell attack or weapon attack, so basically any physical attack works with the aura. I don't know why in Baldur's gate they make the distintion between unarmed, natural attacks and attacks with weapons, it's super annoying (they fixed this by making monks super powerful on their own, between tavern brawler and the energy infusions, regaining ki, extra bonus actions etc).
By TT rules, most items should work with unarmed attacks (that also applies to thrown attacks btw, for some reason that is also weird in bg3).
Kithari noo!!!! god the potion being thrown right out of reach was just the cherry on top lmao
It was followed by a swear word or two :)
NOOOOooooo
But q damn good run
Why did you never used smites tho?
I'm not too sure. I think I wanted to line up something perfect I suppose :)
o7 a valiant effort.
o7
I'm devastated! I wonder if sunbeam would have been a good choice here? Or a calm emotions scroll for the frightening? He has a huge health pool so that's tough to get through, and Dame is useless haha
Yea the fear need to go somehow. Not sure how but something must be done for the next attempt
RIP
Ahh, I enjoyed this run so much. Are going again? Same class or something different? I have learned a lot from your vids! Not at a point to try a solo run, but maybe a duo.
I'm going again yes but as a (majority) Warlock this time. There's a new build video up that I intend to use
@@FriendlyLich Cool! Good luck on the next run. I started my first ever Honor run yesterday, not solo, yet. so far so good Act 1 is almost over trying to be at least lvl 5 before I take on the bosses. Can't wait for your next adventure!
@@LordCousland Good luck and enjoy! Honour mode is tons of fun :) And thank you!
I'm not sure what the strat is with hillgiant? I am running this build and it seems to be performing well without. I did make my weapon phalar aluve to get the abilities and scale off of dex.
I notice you're not smiting a lot? even minrolling should've got you to 1/3rd and that's not likely to happen. Using spellslots on fireball might've worked out well too but you run the risk of missing and not getting the refund I guess.
Warcaster also felt off to me. Only thing I care about concentrating on is blur, which already is a source of maintaining concentration. on the topic of blur, it seems to keep me alive better than mirror image. you already have a high AC, so ruling out "that one lucky hit" with disadvantage seems better than adding even more AC. Seeing how we are this defensive already and the build wants more damage savage attacker or spellsniper or anything like that could've helped a lot.
Honestly, I just wanted to run with strength since I enjoy it. But it might be as you say that it's better to scale it off dex.
Looking back at the fight I think I got stressed over the whole thing and then ended up making even more mistakes than I usually do. Blur as you say is great and no doubt worth using.
I would most likely run the build different if I were to start over again, I learnt a lot from the run (spell selection etc). In the end I didn't realize what a damage test Myrkul would be until it was too late.
Last, thank you for writing those thoughts. It's good feedback and I'm still trying to improve!
Tragedy and heartbreak. Sad days. Regardless, good run and super clever plays, throughout.
Excited for the Warlock!!
Was it that you were out of range for counterspell, or that finger of death is a much higher spell than 3rd level and CS failed? (Wiki says FoD is a 7th level spell as of patch 6)
Also, as per your top comment, Globe of invulnerability is overkill. You can farm the components to make elixirs of universal resistance from the vendors in myconid colony. PSA They only last 10 turns, but stack with other elixirs.
I have learnt afterwards that it's due to higher level and failing the roll. And yes, I agree about glove being overkill. I was frustrated by the run ending :)
No way Kithari died...i have one more reason to hate myrkul now
If you happen to do a next run with a character that use sword and board, instead of making the Adamantine Shield, make another piece, like a weapon, since the shield Reeling effect don't stack with the armor. I guess what makes you fail this run is that you didnt play defensively enough. You could've used Misty Step a lot earlier to heal yourself, plus you started concentrating in wall of fire for some reason, instead of recast Haste xD but overall the rum was pretty solid. I think in the next run you could appeal to the Shield Other ring on an ally half orc barbarian (half orc cuz they can resist death once per long rest) and both Protection From Poison and Death Ward from an ally Cleric. These spells maintains even if the said ally isnt in the party.
Yea the wall of fire was to have some passive damage on the boss while I did other things. Haste might have been the better choice though. :/. The shield and armor got different conditions for the reeling effect, that's why I made it. One is on hit and other is miss. A bit convoluted perhaps but felt good at the time.
I'm so sad 😭
Is this after patch 6 because I fought him too and it was way harder than I remember. (Honor)
It is patch 6 yes
@@FriendlyLich it's a good run, my solo mode run is the middle of act 2 right now. What is the biggest problem for this fight? that you can better prepare for next time? frightended, not able to heal or he just way more tanky?
@@JiuyinZhenJing I think it's the HP pool while taking quite a lot of damage from his ads and his legendary action. I'm not sure but Globe of Invuln feels like a very good choice for concentration spell. Also being frightened when it is time to heal is really bad for sure
Assassin type build please!
Going with a pact of the blade warlock multi-class. Sorry!
This is so sad :/
wait how are you level 10
2 Oathbreaker + 7 Necromancer
I still hate Myrkul after honor mode. I actually think he is a bit overtuned compared to Act 3 bosses.
Feels kind of weird they buffed him when he was already probably the most dangerous boss fight in the game yet the resident sleeper bosses that are act 3 didn't receive massive buffs at all lol.
I will get him next time \o/
😢 #NeverForget
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Tragic ending. Rip Kithari, learned alot from you. Onto the next journey.
Glad to hear! I've picked up quite a few tricks too from comments :)