Image below is how fighting Stone Titan on Dark difficulty got me feeling like

[gotdatdoginm3]

This guy is so tanky and after a few turns he one shots everyone in my party. Looking for any tips on how to beat him. Here’s my build and party:

Race: Human
Class: Charmer
Background: Minstrel

Main Attributes: Strength, Agility, Presence
Perks: Expert Inspiration, Mutual Inspiration

Primary: Ashelander
Off Hand: Harp of Waves
Head: Partician Mass
Neck: Enchanted Amulet
Shoulders: Clark of the Deeps
Armor: Rogue Scholar Attire
Top: Silk Shirt
Bottom: Studded Leathers
Waist: Fertile Girdle
Hands: Gloves of Giant Strength
Feet: Winged Sabatons
Ring: Guldring
Ring: White Blossom

Powers:
At Will: Sneak Attack
Recharge 1: Sorrant Chant
Recharge 2: Dischord
Encounter: Summon Grungendyr
Ultimate: Inspiration

Party: Witch Cait and Warhides Arona

 

[Punccline]

I managed to just brute force him, with a bit of experimenting.

Class: Warrior (Soldier bg), Tough Hide and Titan's Grip perks.
Stats: Strength > Toughness > Agility.
Gear: Stonepiercer, Dragonscale, Titanic Hat, Champion's Belt, Cloak of the Deep, Gloves of Giant Strength, Winged Sabatons, Mare's Ring, Hornet Ring.

At Will: Equilibrium
Recharge 1: Onslaught
Recharge 2: Endure
Encounter: War Banner
Ultimate: Assassinate (it's what I had equipped at the time but literally any other ultimate is better tbh, Assassinate barely scratches him.

Companions: Cait (Frostheart), Brint (Wayfarer).

The strat is simple. Have Cait use Rime Veil on you and plant War Banner ASAP, then make peace with the fact that Cait and Brint are dead meat the second Slow Start wears off.

Once it does, he's gonna knock your party prone and use an attack that will likely murder both your companions by hitting them for several hundred damage each (I've seen it deal like 700 damage to Cait on a high roll lmao, poor kitty is cooked). Due to Equilibrium, you will avoid being knocked prone, and War Banner's passive healing will keep you alive. Between this, heavy armor and Rime Veil, you should be able to survive several turns of the giant hitting you.

The fight is basically one short rotation on repeat: Use Onslaught, attack until you reach about 1/3rd health (which takes 3-4 turns depending), use Endure, repeat. It'll take a while, but you will eventually whittle him down.

Large spikes of damage aren't worth much against him, because he has a passive that hard caps how much damage a single hit can do to him on top of his massive health bar and defensive stats. Your best bet is to self-sustain and subject him to death by a thousand cuts.

 

[gotdatdoginm3]

I managed to just brute force him, with a bit of experimenting.

Class: Warrior (Soldier bg), Tough Hide and Titan's Grip perks.
Stats: Strength > Toughness > Agility.
Gear: Stonepiercer, Dragonscale, Titanic Hat, Champion's Belt, Cloak of the Deep, Gloves of Giant Strength, Winged Sabatons, Mare's Ring, Hornet Ring.

At Will: Equilibrium
Recharge 1: Onslaught
Recharge 2: Endure
Encounter: War Banner
Ultimate: Assassinate (it's what I had equipped at the time but literally any other ultimate is better tbh, Assassinate barely scratches him.

Companions: Cait (Frostheart), Brint (Wayfarer).

The strat is simple. Have Cait use Rime Veil on you and plant War Banner ASAP, then make peace with the fact that Cait and Brint are dead meat the second Slow Start wears off.

Once it does, he's gonna knock your party prone and use an attack that will likely murder both your companions by hitting them for several hundred damage each (I've seen it deal like 700 damage to Cait on a high roll lmao, poor kitty is cooked). Due to Equilibrium, you will avoid being knocked prone, and War Banner's passive healing will keep you alive. Between this, heavy armor and Rime Veil, you should be able to survive several turns of the giant hitting you.

The fight is basically one short rotation on repeat: Use Onslaught, attack until you reach about 1/3rd health (which takes 3-4 turns depending), use Endure, repeat. It'll take a while, but you will eventually whittle him down.

Large spikes of damage aren't worth much against him, because he has a passive that hard caps how much damage a single hit can do to him on top of his massive health bar and defensive stats. Your best bet is to self-sustain and subject him to death by a thousand cuts.

I’d like to thank you for your comment because I took some inspiration from this and made a few adjustments and I finally beat him!

So I only had to do a few small tweaks to my party comp, strategy, and which skills to use. I ended up swapping out dischord for song of storms (this helped big time with my dps) and switched unbreakable as my ultimate. I also replaced Ashe with Frosthammer to take advantage of the sundering on Crit (which was almost never ending because of White Blossom). I then swapped out Arona for Wayfarer Brienne and Switched Cait from her witch set to her Vestal Rainment set. After that I did as much damage as I could before slow start expired (by the horns from brienne bought me another turn for dps). After that, I popped unbreakable and had Cait enter guard stance and we were both the last ones standing. After some heal spamming, I summoned Grung and just kept beating ST down with song of storm powered sneak attacks while Cait soaked all the aggro. Again. Thanks a lot for your comment, it was a big help in me clearing this boss!

 

[Punccline]

I’d like to thank you for your comment because I took some inspiration from this and made a few adjustments and I finally beat him!

So I only had to do a few small tweaks to my party comp, strategy, and which skills to use. I ended up swapping out dischord for song of storms (this helped big time with my dps) and switched unbreakable as my ultimate. I also replaced Ashe with Frosthammer to take advantage of the sundering on Crit (which was almost never ending because of White Blossom). I then swapped out Arona for Wayfarer Brienne and Switched Cait from her witch set to her Vestal Rainment set. After that I did as much damage as I could before slow start expired (by the horns from brienne bought me another turn for dps). After that, I popped unbreakable and had Cait enter guard stance and we were both the last ones standing. After some heal spamming, I summoned Grung and just kept beating ST down with song of storm powered sneak attacks while Cait soaked all the aggro. Again. Thanks a lot for your comment, it was a big help in me clearing this boss!

Niiiice. I was a little concerned that it'd be unbeatable without the player acting as the tank (since it's a loss if you go down but your tank companion is still standing), but you found a way. Expert Inspiration Unbreakable remains goated.

 

[Iacs]

Vestal Cait proved to be good idea for my white mage character too (Normal difficulty). Ended up killing it with her and Draconic Azzy. Used Razorcup Nectar - because this consumable should be used someday, and this was hell of a boss battle. Frostwarden and Bark Skin for defense, Celestial Smite and Iceblood for offense.

 

[Euthanize]

Large spikes of damage aren't worth much against him, because he has a passive that hard caps how much damage a single hit can do to him on top of his massive health bar and defensive stats. Your best bet is to self-sustain and subject him to death by a thousand cuts.

His oneshot protection perk (sturdy) doesn't actually work. You can kill him with your first action if you want to. The most obvious way to get numbers big enough to do this is with one of the new "penetration can bring enemies' [damage reduction stat] below zero for the purposes of damage calculation" perks. I did it with Wardbreaker but the Charmer equivalent should do the same thing, assuming you can find enough Temptation.



Looking at Reggie's resistances it looks like you need about 150 Temptation to explode him raw, or about 125 if you can get an Entropic Fortune effect on him first (on Dark. I haven't looked at his resistances on Normal, they might be lower).

 

[Papum]

You can defeat him easily if you use high health characters like Brint/Brienne in most sets (Brienne in her Pyromancer's Cloth that gets extra hp), Arona, Kiyoko (due to her Slip of the Mind) and/or an combination with Pupper Pale Ale (every bit of hp will help you) and also Steadfast Tonic before the battle begins on evey participant, Inspiration can also be an life saver if used at teh begingin of the fight to push your hp up.
Also have your tank have an lot of armor if it is the PC, else arona with Berserkergang to mitigate damage is an fairly good tank or time well Atugia's Shell you can also use Rime Veil, some warrior themed Powers that give an select unit armor or the whole group or the new Sparkwall Flask Powers for team protection if the PC is not the tank, else Instant fortress or some of the warrior self recharge armor boosting powers (every power that gives group armor/damage mitigation/prevention or life regen/gain is welcome).
You can also have Azyrran time her Sweet Protector for the whole party, Kiyoko can do that aswell with her Kanso's Companion Set Fortify (but this lasts only for two turns).
Only thing that will wipe you is when he uses his ultimate that will give an enormous amount of physical aoe damage so be always topped in health, past that it's home run.

Easiest way of what was written above is to use high hp characters + Pupper Pale Ale to max. health + Steadfast Tonic (+ Inspiration used early on if you have it, with this amount of hp your party is sure to survive it easily) and at least give the tank an high amount of armor and life gain through powers constantly (so when the stone titan elemental usses his Ultimate your tank and party will be fine and with some small luck you will have the others near death (if not using Inspiration) both having survived the worse).