#concelhaut

The Watcher's best pet (Concelhaut)

I’m level like 14. Getting ready to finish the Berath quest and wrap Council of Stars. So I was like okay end game is coming. I should finish White March And then do some of this other stuff. I round up my A team, swap out some armor, and get ready to head out. I figured oh yeah level 14. Siege of Cragholdt should be easy peasy. I didn’t look up anything. Just that it was difficult for lower levels.

Lemme tell ya, even at level 14 this place is difficult. Word of advice: take out the Brawlers ASAP. Then the priests. Or at least have the priests constantly interrupted. The Brawlers should be main death priority because they can kill some of the part members in like two hits and also summon duplicates in threes.

Anyway, once I got into the hold I didn’t have much of a problem. Sabel was a wee bit of a problem. But I got it sort out pretty quick. I get everything together. Go to the door. And this is where it gets super fun. Concelhaut is waiting. And the fight is unavoidable. I also didn’t do any research going into this place. Because, well, I like to do it myself a few times first.

I go in there. Talk to the guy. Fight ensues. I think I have it, right? No problem. I got weapons that have extra vessel damage. I did not have it. At all. My party gets wiped out in like one laser beam. I think I have ideas. So I reload, buff up, etc etc. Go in. Same thing. I do this two more times before I’m like fuck it. I’m looking this guy up. And I see a strategy where you just line the mobs up at the door. That’s when I read that this is one of the hardest fights in the game.

Great. Awesome. I love it. I try this new found strategy. Only I fuck up the first time. And just instantly die. I didn’t even wait for a full wipe. I just reloaded. Second time works much better. I’m bottlenecking the mobs with Eder at the door. I slip up and a couple get through, leaving Concelhaut to land a few blows. Now I’m not sure who died first. But I want to say it was Kana. And it was totally my fault.

My party members consisted of myself (crit rogue) who at the time I was having stand at the side of the door flank the mobs. Eder was tank, of course. Durance heals. Aloth was range dps, control (which is why I couldn’t save Kana because I didn’t switch to him to have him blind or whatever). Hiravias was also range dps and occasional melee when shifted (I know I should have brought Pallegina but I didn’t think it would be this difficult and I like Hiravias more). And Kana because of the Dragon build and consecrated boots. He’s usually tanky. Buuuut like I said, I made a major error.

Back to business, everything was going well until Kana died. It snowballed from there. They immediately turned to Durance. And I didn’t have a whole lot of time. So he died. I’m panicking at this point but I’m like okay no big. We all have some kind of life steal or heal or something. I switch to Hiravias and start making him buff and do small healing in bits. I go between him and Aloth as I’m desperately trying to regain control of the battlefield. Then Hiravias goes down.

Shit. I’m out of healers. All I have left are my tank, dps, and Aloth. So at this point, I’m like aight. Go big or go home. I bust out all the big moves. Everything I can. My rogue goes down, of course, because she draws aggro. I have Eder tanking Concelhaut at this point. And Aloth trying to kite fools and take them out. He manages to take out the remainder of what it was left (I think there were two and he was able to chain lightning or something and kill them both). But... Concelhaut is still at full health.

And then... Aloth goes down. Another laser beam. So I’m distraught, right? I’m like oh man I have been at this for like twenty minutes. Eder is the only one left. He has like 0 damage. He’s just a meat shield. I’m gonna get blow to the sky with magic. I’m getting ready to reload, right... and then I notice it. Eder is at at like 2/3rd’s health. I’m watching and waiting. No magic. The son of a bitch used all his magic slots. I start laughing hysterically. I heal up Eder to full so now there’s a fair chance. And I’m looking all over the bar for things that can help. Except my dumb ass didn’t trade out the useless things on my quick items.