Litany of the Dead - Beholder Part

[borgec]

I'm hoping someone could give some pointers on how you are doing this.

I have beat this guy a few times but it is still hit and miss

My basic strategy

Get the melee's together in side the barrier in the center of the room
Arcane cast Acid cloud in that area
cleric (s) & arcanes (s) move off to the side (away from each other)
Arcane triggers the beholder and tries to position him near the melee and uses chill touch to fear him
melee use eye of vol clickie and try to block him in and hack and slash
Ranger or one of the melee tries to get the agro of the archers
clerics spam heal & mass heal & arcanes cast disintegrate
sometimes we get lucky

I'm just wondering how other people are attempting this?

p.s. I did search for a post where people may have discussed this but I came up empty. Please feel free to point me to a thread if one exists


Thanks in Advace

[lethal413]

first off

i believe with all my heart a wf tank is needed if youre going to keep the whole party in the room.

a couple ways ive done this side are



1. have someone with heightened chill touch fear him then try to corner him while tanks beat on him,,, btw flesh golem clickie is pretty useful to draw aggro

2. have 2 clerics in the grp with max empowered blade barriers. have one stay at one door and get his aggro. have other stand at middle door, well entrance i guess, and throw a blade up so it pokes through the barrier. have cleric with initial aggro run him into center entrance to hit blades while first cleric that casted the blade barrier runs to left entrance to room to do the same. that way the party can be in the room with no aggrowhile clerics are choppin him up pulling him through blades in each entrance. <<<that one is by far my favorite way because i love killing **** with bb. might require some sp pots though.



idk thats what ive done.

[Aspenor]

I don't know I kinda think it might work better to have the melee pull the beholder, and have the arcane sneak up behind him. Then he'll be more controllable.

[Shade]

I dunno i just fight him normally on my barbarian pretty much:

Get the wizard/sorc to ghosttouch clicky you (you cant your raged)
Get out your greataxe undead bane greataxe
Chug your 100+ haste potions to handle the annoying constant dispell (also madstone boots are a must cuz they cant be dispelled)
Cut the *!(@#!@# out of him.

Works fine, no need for cheesy chilltouch tactic.

And im no stinking WF - im a Dwarf with my silver flame amulet - 10 charges is plenty really if you DPS fast enough.