Colosseum help - Cedric

[Sig_mond]

I cannot, for the sake of my life, beat cedric. His second phase is infuriating, i'm clearly very rubbish at this game because my character is max level yet I still cant beat him. can anyone PLEASE help

 

[valk42]

what is your class, build, powers? post a save, maybe?

 

[Sig_mond]

I usually bring Cait along for her healing abilities and etheryn.
My at will is deflection, then i use rend and summon hoplite figurine, plus i have unbreakable.

 

[Shrike675]

Go to the options menu and lower the difficulty down to story. If you still can't win past that point you may have to reevaluate your setup.

 

[teawolf]

Depending on which Ryn set you have, you might need a tank. Try bringing Area Bri or Hoplite Quin?

 

[Sig_mond]

okay I feel very stupid, I didn't know you could turn down the difficulty. With that being said, I managed to beat them.
Thank you all so much I really appreciate it.

 

[TheJellyWobblesMenacingly]

Hello Sigmond. Don't feel bad.

• First the Colosseum is designed to provide a series of combat-focused challenges.
• Second, the character options are easily overlooked.

There's a big difference between feeling stupid, and being stupid.
The fact that you're troubleshooting excludes you from the latter category.

Do yourself a favour if you haven't already

Spoiler

scroll through the options to the bottom and change

Combat Flow Default to -> Manual

so that you can control your party members (who are not summons or guests)

From what you've posted, it looks like you've made a human warrior with the soldier background while using the [Dawnsword] as one of your weapons.
Your choice of powers is sub-optimal though.

*Your encounter power (1)Summon Hoplite.
Summons scale off - Leadership - which comes from presence/gear. 28 Leadership is a bit low for using summons.
A better choice would be (6)Bullrush, a power that lets you knockdown a target, while generating high threat even if you miss

* Recharge power (1)Rend -> applies bleed which is an excellent debuff. Bleed reduces healing received by 50% and deals armor ignoring dmg.
However the bleed from (1)Rend is easily outclassed by other sources.
Equip a [Kunai] in your offhand and you can apply bleeds with your weapon attacks/powers.

* Consider using (2)Lightning Fist [Recharge 4][Melee] - an attack with +25 accuracy that deals high crushing dmg and stuns for 1 turn.
Note (2)Lightning Fist isn't a wpn atk so you can use it even while disarmed. (6)Bullrush works the same way.
The flipside however is they don't gain any bonuses applied to your wpns specifically.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.​

Feel free to ask any more game related questions.

 

[ham]

I had the same problem, I found that he is very weak to blight damage, which is useful for any black mages.

 

[ExtraMan]

I found that dual-weilding works incredibly well with Deflection, everytime you make a deflection attack you also make an offhand attack. Etheryn is probably a liability here, her skills generate a lot of threat which means Deflection becomes less useful as more attacks are drawn towards Ryn and away from you.
While I've used the team of Me, Cait, and Ryn for a lot of the game I suggest you bring Vivianne. Once I actually read what her powers did I realized she makes for an excellent controller. Elemental Fury buffs you, buffs your powers, and buffs you Deflection attacks. If you're dual-weilding, you get double the value. Immolation debuffs enemy attack and spellpower, and the burning DoT is nice. Heat Weapon can force a disarm, and Summon Wolf Spirit gives you better action economy and can inflict bleed.

With Cait and Vivianne, open the fight with Bull Rush to take a turn from Cedric, Spirit Veil on you to boost evasion, and Elemental Fury on you to boost damage. Next turn, you focus on damage dealing, Cait can Heal or White Fire, and Viv can either Summon Wolf or Immolation for attrition, or Heat Metal to disarm Cedric. With Deflection, dual-weild, and high evasion, you can be making six attacks in a round. For an extra push, drinking some Cunning boosting alcohol before the fight for better crit chance.

If you get evasion boosting gear, the Kunoichi Set works well for this, then Cait doesn't need to focus as much on healing you. You can also stack Lucky Strike rings for better evasion, critical chance, and accuracy. The Heretic Triangle (DPS, Support, Controller [Holy Triangle is Tank, DPS, Support]) beats nearly the entire game. I think I could have beaten the black knight if she didn't knock out Cait with double crits in the first turn.

 

[muzaca]

I found that dual-weilding works incredibly well with Deflection, everytime you make a deflection attack you also make an offhand attack. Etheryn is probably a liability here, her skills generate a lot of threat which means Deflection becomes less useful as more attacks are drawn towards Ryn and away from you.
While I've used the team of Me, Cait, and Ryn for a lot of the game I suggest you bring Vivianne. Once I actually read what her powers did I realized she makes for an excellent controller. Elemental Fury buffs you, buffs your powers, and buffs you Deflection attacks. If you're dual-weilding, you get double the value. Immolation debuffs enemy attack and spellpower, and the burning DoT is nice. Heat Weapon can force a disarm, and Summon Wolf Spirit gives you better action economy and can inflict bleed.

With Cait and Vivianne, open the fight with Bull Rush to take a turn from Cedric, Spirit Veil on you to boost evasion, and Elemental Fury on you to boost damage. Next turn, you focus on damage dealing, Cait can Heal or White Fire, and Viv can either Summon Wolf or Immolation for attrition, or Heat Metal to disarm Cedric. With Deflection, dual-weild, and high evasion, you can be making six attacks in a round. For an extra push, drinking some Cunning boosting alcohol before the fight for better crit chance.

If you get evasion boosting gear, the Kunoichi Set works well for this, then Cait doesn't need to focus as much on healing you. You can also stack Lucky Strike rings for better evasion, critical chance, and accuracy. The Heretic Triangle (DPS, Support, Controller [Holy Triangle is Tank, DPS, Support]) beats nearly the entire game. I think I could have beaten the black knight if she didn't knock out Cait with double crits in the first turn.

I went with dragon-azy and agnimitra, dual wielding, usually cut down more than half their health with eviscerate, her dragonflame then just dual blitz and attack with deflection up and I won every battle