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[tetracycloide]

jsachun wrote...

The reason why he can take so much damage is not just because he has high health & mana, but it's also because he has the miasma aura. This virtually limits your melee companions to doing only 0 to 20 damage per hit. Purging magic spell or talent helps, and you'll find that he can be taken down a lot quicker.

Miasma does not limit melee damage to 0-20 per hit.  My rogue had no problem striking for 60-160 damage with miasma up.  It does lower attack and defense by 10 though so it's still a good idea to purge it anyway.

[Toxic_Lemon]

soteria wrote...

Toxic_Lemon wrote...

I can`t beat this Gaxkang dude no matter what i try, currently playing a warrior through the game and when i get to Gaxkang i hope to do better, but when i used my mage, mana clash - resisted - glyph of newt - resisted - can only get him half way down on health then woopdedoo he heals back up, but i wont give up. :/

Have Alistair (or your PC if he's a templar), equip the knight-commander armor (buy it from the guy outside Orzammar, 27g).  Give him a weapon with spell resist runes.  With the right gear setup you'll resist everything he throws at you, and it doesn't matter how long the fight takes.  I've never seen him heal back to full... he casts drain life, but I never thought it was a huge amount of healing.

Thank you I will give that a try tonight.

[Lord Phoebus]

I think the people who are having trouble with mana clash are the people who don't put every stat point into magic on their mages.  I've hexed him with vulnerability and affliction hex before hitting him with mana clash and killed him with 2748 points of damage.

For my solo warrior I had 100% spell resist gear, which turned it into rather long, but easy. auto-attack fight.  If I was playing a solo rogue I imagine I would have to hide and use bombs while he was in Horror form and then switch to melee when he was in Revenant form.

Either Glyph of Neutralization or Mana Clash can really trivialize this fight, but you need a high magic to land them.  Telekinetic weapons will also help in taking  him down, since his Revenant form has a pretty high armor value.

[tetracycloide]

Solo, dual-wield, dwarf rogues can also be 100% spell immune. If dex is pump sufficently as a solo dwarf rogue with 6 dweomer runes, dwarven shielded armor, antivan leather boots, spellward, ancient elven gloves, and key to the city I don't think gax lands much of anything in either form.

[Addai]

Someone may have said this already but I found Shale + Alistair + a healer with spell shield a good combination for Gaxkang.  She has natural spell resistance, for one thing.  In his Arcane Horror form, I put Shale into... what's the name of that mode, where she emits a blue cloud and bolsters spell resistance... Anyway, that. (Supernatural Resilience, I think.) And then when Gaxkang switches to fighter, I had her pounding the pulp out of him.  Rogue PC stood out of the way pumping arrows.

Modifié par Addai67, 11 janvier 2010 - 09:36 .

[Aezeal]

Gaxkang might have a very good sword.. but the point is ... if you can beat him without it you don't really need that thing anyway



it's a pride thing mainly

[keesio74]

Lord Phoebus wrote...

Either Glyph of Neutralization or Mana Clash can really trivialize this fight, but you need a high magic to land them. 

What is considered "high?

[tetracycloide]

keesio74 wrote...
What is considered "high?

Completely min/maxing for magic and spellpower a level 25 mage tops out over 160 spellpower with wisp and spell might up and close to 100 magic.  I'd say 'high' is probably around 110-120 spellpower or more with 85+ magic.  I'm not really sure how high either stat has to be to start consistently hitting gax nor if level plays a role at all.

[keesio74]

Morrigan (my main offensive mage) has a Magic of ~50. I guess that is pretty low and explains why Gax resists almost everything

Modifié par keesio74, 11 janvier 2010 - 11:42 .

[Freestorm Skinn]

Apart from Mana Clash, using Oghren and/or a Dwarf PC to melee Gaxxkang is a very good tip. That and equipping a human tank with Juggernaut armour makes said tank resistent to nearly all his attacks as well.

[Addai]

Aezeal wrote...

Gaxkang might have a very good sword.. but the point is ... if you can beat him without it you don't really need that thing anyway

it's a pride thing mainly

Oh, I wouldn't say that.  Fade Wall is also an excellent shield.  Alistair gets both Keening Blade and Fade Wall immediately and usually for the rest of the game, though I do let him carry Duncan's shield for sentimental purposes.  If you haven't gotten Starfang, Keening Blade is especially nice to have.

[Meleth75]

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[Aezeal]

I've not gotten fade wall myself.. and same thing, if I can beat him I don't need it either . And Starfang is a lil bit easier to get (just a VERY little )

[gx99-nq9y]

i dont get it why gaxkang is hard for some ppl, to me he's realy easy,

i allways got him kiled first try with warrior, arcane warrior, dual sword warrior

[Addai]

Aezeal wrote...

I've not gotten fade wall myself.. and same thing, if I can beat him I don't need it either . And Starfang is a lil bit easier to get (just a VERY little )

Well you could probably beat the game in your starting equipment if you really wanted and you have some allergy to doing a quest (don't like XP, either??).  Loot not really being the point of this game.

Nevertheless if you have a PC warrior, getting Starfang still leaves you needing to equip Alistair.  Not that these are the only two swords in the game, but to my mind they are the best (Topsider's Honor is also good) and Fade Wall is the best shield.

Modifié par Addai67, 12 janvier 2010 - 11:33 .