portal beaters? Hard to tell what works best

[Bolo_Grubb]

I have been trying several sword combos on the portals in the shroud. I am finding it dificult to see which combo works best.

I know Anarchic burst works well and so does Greater construct bane, if I could only find a sword with both :D

but it would also seem that my Triple positive GS khopesh does as well or maybe better.

Metalline does not seem to help and the portals seem to be immune to cold, did not test others

Here are the combos I tried

#1 Triple Pos GS and a +4 holy of pure good
#2 +1 Anarchic burst khopesh of everbright and +1 Anarchic burstlongsword of everbright
#3 +1 bodyfeeder khopesh of Greater Construct bane and +1 Anarchic burst khopesh of everbright

I can not be sure but by trying to watch the numbers above the portal, combo #1 seem to work best

[Freeman]

The GS and the Greater Construct Bane(GCB) are the best two against portals, although the +4 Holy PG is only slightly below the GCB. Any combo of those three would be fine when beating on the portals though.

[Krag]

Tripple Pos is the best.
+4 holy of PG and +1 of Greater Construct Bane deal exactly the same damage. They both act like +4 weapon with 3d6 damage on top.

[vyvy3369]

At first glance I would guess a combination of #1 & #3 would be best (Triple-pos GS & GCB Khopesh).

Triple-pos is going to be +5 w/ slightly higher base damage and at least 3d6 damage per hit (plus whatever burst/blast damage), so it's probably going to be your best bet.

+1 GCB (bodyfeeder is pretty irrelevant in terms of damage) is +5 w/ 3d6 against portals.

+4 Holy/PG is +4 w/ 3d6 extra, so it's slightly behind the GCB but more useful in general if you don't want to bother with the inventory slot.

+1 Anarchic burst may sound good, but it's going to be slightly worse - it's only +1 w/ 2d6 and some extra on crits, which IIRC comes out worse than an extra 1d6.

[captain1z]

Portals are Lawful Evil Constructs


Lawful is vulnerable to - True Chaos & Anarchic

Evil is vulnerable to - Holy & good & rhighteous

Constructs are vulnerable to - construct bane both lesser and greater as well

(constructs are usually weak vs admantine and smiters also but portals are not)

Portals are immune to all elemental damage - fire, cold, acid, eletric

Portals will take damage from - force and non-typed damage like disintergrate and viscious


Rogue wrack construct (damage portion) works vs portals

Smite evil paladin ability works

any combonation of all of the above works

Dual weilding or two handed weapons work best for dps but no weapon can break a portals DR....... with the exception of Radiance weapons when they crit and convert all damage to light.

Did I miss anything?

[Bolo_Grubb]

Thanks for all the replies, this is very helpful information.

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Well, I believe they are currently Lawful Evil aligned Constructs.

And take alignment damage based on that. And bane damage of course.

They should not be able to be critted. But I think Burst damage can still apply (maybe someone can correct meif I'm wrong there)

[Krag]

They should not be able to be critted. But I think Burst damage can still apply (maybe someone can correct meif I'm wrong there)

Correct. Extra "burst" damage does apply on criticals even though the basic damage isn't multiplied.

[Bilger]

Well, I believe they are currently Lawful Evil aligned Constructs.

And take alignment damage based on that. And bane damage of course.

They should not be able to be critted. But I think Burst damage can still apply (maybe someone can correct meif I'm wrong there)

They can't be critted unless a rogue uses wrack construct o it and succeeds. I believe. and bursting works