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[ngen]

Hah! You all fail to recognize the awesome powers of mana drain! I just had Wynne on a continuous mana drain and then Lyrium potion for herself, while Shale was tanking and keeping agro I was doing the AW Tap dance (... and it goes something like this). And lastly I think I had Morianna on a heal loop.



But good hard battle it was, mostly because theres no room to work with, so I tried to get my mages to stand as far away from his sword swing as possible.

[ComTrav]

Just beat him. As others have said, its mainly a matter of positioning (which is hard to get right in that tiny, tiny hovel he lives in.) Took a long time to grind him down, too.



It was an enjoyable fight to work on, though, I sorta felt like I had the game 'figured out' and was sorta surprised to get my butt kicked a few times by the boss of a sidequest.



Next time I'll bring glyph of neutralization...(I tried Alistar, but he was only good for one or two cleanses.)

[Paxsis]

I failed miserably on my first try, but someone said he was just slightly harder than another certain hard enemy boss, which I found rather easy with the right gear. Guess it's time to go check him out again, eh?

[Tyrax Lightning]

From what i'm reading here, it's lookin like this boss is the kinda bugger Holy Smite (from either the PC or Alistair) was built for. Anyone try that?

[ComTrav]

I tried Holy Smite. It shuts him down for a bit, but he starts doing all his nasty stuff before the cooldown is up.



(I do feel like I messed up my Alistar build a bit, though, so someone else may have better results. If I were to give him my main character's Dragonbone armor, he might have enough stam to keep using Cleanse.)

[Dnarris]

To be honest I didn't take him on until I was level 20.



At that point I had enough tools at my disposal to dispose of him quite quickly.



I used paralyze, glyph of paralyzation, paralyzation runes on my weapons, crushing prison, and various healing spells to great effect during that fight,



Half the fight he was frozen from paralyzation or some ice effect and really couldn't handle my high level party. My cleansing aura was making up for a lot of damage he was doing to my tank anyhow.



He's meant to be tough....you just need to be tougher than you are now to beat him.

[kab]

Again, can someone please tell us where he is?

[Rylor Tormtor]

Sloth Of Doom wrote...

Hes a Bioware Lich.

A Blich

Brilliant!

Also, you avatar is kinda what I think a blitch would look like as well.

[Loc'n'lol]

kab wrote...

Again, can someone please tell us where he is?

In a "quaint hovel" in one of the back alleys of Denerim. You will not be able to open the door before you have retrieved certain notes on dead adventurers dispersed across various dungeons in the game.

[Super_Fr33k]

I actually could argue that Gaxkang is not a spiritual successor to Kangaxx, given that Kangaxx was actually a really simple fight (you were either immune to imprisonment somehow or you lost;) ). Gaxkang was a great surprise for my first party, especially the first time he used dispel on force field, lol...



A simple method is to level people up with poisonmaking so everyone can spam grenades at him. Leliana and my rogue kept cycling fire and lightning grenades, works pretty well.

[Raxxman]

you can use mage bane + conc mage bane at the same time if you need too.



Mana drain will pop him fast as well.

[JandauX]

Mana Clash - Drop one on him as soon as he takes his caster form and you'll drop about half his health AND he won't be able to slaughter you with spells.

Seriously, Mana Clash is one of the overpowered spells nobody ever talks about, but overall I've found it to be almost as much of a gamebreaker as Force Field

[Zenon]

I don't remember what level I was. But as arcane warrior with the special longsword of WK and the RC Elite shield and BDA I won after a long battle where my group mates had been knocked cold after the first third of the fight. I was a little bit lucky, maybe, but also had a sound supply of health pots.

[SpideyKnight]

Amusing, that someone says the fight is trivial when they are playing a Arcane Warrior. Yea, for you to fight is trivial, the entire game is. Haven't noticed that yet? And on Normal I might add, glorious.

[foil-]

Super_Fr33k wrote...

I actually could argue that Gaxkang is not a spiritual successor to Kangaxx, given that Kangaxx was actually a really simple fight (you were either immune to imprisonment somehow or you lost;) ). Gaxkang was a great surprise for my first party, especially the first time he used dispel on force field, lol...

A simple method is to level people up with poisonmaking so everyone can spam grenades at him. Leliana and my rogue kept cycling fire and lightning grenades, works pretty well.

It's been a long time since playing that fight in BG2, but I remember it as slightly more insane (and more interesting) than this one.  Do I recall that he had timestop as well.  Or am I remembering me using time stop.  Too long ago.  I also seem to recall some pretty deadly resistance to weapons.

Anyhow, the DAO version was hard, not doubt, depending on your group makeup, level, and spell availability.  I guess milage will vary depending on all of these.  I got smacked the first time I tried him at level 17 or so, but I refuse to use Wynn for some reason.  Maybe she just doesn't like me b/c I keep spelling her name wrong.

Anyway.  Once morrigan had the following spells available, I found the fight fairly standard fair:

-Revival
-Forcefield
-Group heel

Until then, the fight was pretty much a no go for me.  And the mana buster looks like  a pretty deadly spell.
I also found that if you used your mage to attack him, it got his attention and he would then try to kill her.  So I left her in a support role.  No damage spells until the end when it looked like he ran out of mana.

On the odd time he would chase after the mage, I would forcefield her.  The forcefield would last until it was ready to cast again for this mage, so if he hadn't turned his attention away yet, she could keep it up.

I also kept her in the opposite room just in case he attempted a pull on her.

[Skellimancer]

Mana Clash

[noobiedude]

 Didn't have to use forcefield.  Vulnerability hex + mana clash = half his life gone in nightmare.  Then all he could do was auto attack in either form.  Just a beat down for the last half of his life then.

[DragoonKain3]

This was a really funny fight, because when my Alistair melees him, he switches to Revenant form.

And considering Alistair is a dodge tank that Revenants cannot hit reliably, this was a pretty simple fight.  He might get CoC'ed once or twice (of which a simple heal or regen solves), but for the most part Gaxkang was trying to melee Alistair and consistently failing. (And yes, defense values still works when frozen)

Yeah, I did not really think this fight was all that hard, so I was genuinely surprised to see that it replaced High Dragon as most powerful foe killed. >_<

[addiction21]

I just threw waffles at him.

[TheNecroFiend]

I steamrolled him when I stumbled upon Gax. The fight went by so fast that it didn't register who he was supposed to be untill I was looking at my characters stats on most powerful foe slain.

[Sarevok Anchev]

... I threw cheeses^^



Like many said: Glyph of Neutralization made my day on Nightmare.

For extra cheese use Manaclash.

[Daemonhorde]

he is hard but only if you don't have a proper healer in your group. One's you have a proper healer who stands away from the fight he is rather simple. Things to think about is having the highest armor pen possible. Maul + tele. And putting non heal ability on him. Like curse of mortality... Hes really goes down fast after that. The phase that is difficult is when he goes into life drain mode. One's he hit reavenant he is pretty tank spanky. The liferdrain can be troublesome but can be out healed... Also you can hit his mana for even easier time... IF you invested in spells.

[Sir Elliot]

Hardest fight in the game, imho. You need to micro a LOT. Shale in his defensive form constantly using the aggro skills (regen burst, bellow, etc) helps a lot, especially if you built shale correctly (as in, max CON) and have a good spirit resist crystal for armor.



If you have a rogue with ranger that helps a lot too, in that it provides an additional meat shield, and can help trap him in the location you want him at so your healer can stay away from him (and keep an object inbetween if he uses pull).



As I said, IMHO hardest fight in the game. And folks, if you beat him on normal using an AW, don't talk about how easy he was. Thx.

[foil-]

I just found out that ghaxkang is not the hardest fight in the game for crying out loud! Holy toledo (minor spoiler) ser Cautherine is hard at level 19! Thankfully I had my ghaxkang experience to warm me up for that fight. And thankfully I was able to draw her into a room by herself and for some weird reason the others didn't follow once I closed the door on her. What is with that sword doing 130HP per hit (200 if you count the 70 armour she has to cut through also). In the end, I had a satisfying beheader to end her miserable puppy dog hand lapping of Loghain. And all I got out of it was a misserable 2 handed sword that's not even that good.



And after the fight, I was looking at my tracking map to see 4 soldiers and a mage waiting for me on the other side of the door. I was terrified to open the door since the game wouldn't let me save after taking down ser Cautherine. One bonehead move and I would have probably never been able to repeat taking ser Cautherine out.



So sorry if that is a bit spoilerific, but I was incredulous that the game seemed to be forcing me to go down a chosen path by putting an impossible opponent. I got wacked a few times in a row and put the game aside thinking when I came back I was going to have to go down that chosen path. When I came back and gave it another try, I'm glad to see it was only nearly impossible: although I think I won that fight as a fluke. And also casting an ice storm before the fight even started to gain some control over the archers so I could get out of the room.



I know this is a ghaxkang thread, so excuse my slight dethread. But I would be currious to know if ser C. would bump ghaxkang out of the most powerful opponent section of my character sheet. Unfortunately, I don't recall who killed G.K. in that fight. I'll see if I can find out.

[Raxxman]

yeah it's funny that she could solo a high dragon/gaxkang without breaking a sweat. Or not.



She ended up chasing my mage around in a circle while everyone took swings at her, couldn't break the agro so she took about 4 swings total before dying. I have the save so I can fighter her again if I feel like it, but as she's essentially immune to CC on nightmare it's not a great fight.