Beat Loki in < 10 Rounds

[Xargon]

Originally Posted by dainbramage

Ah. Did not know that. Well damn, that's a silly wasted exp/1k leadership+morale. Meh, first playthrough isn't meant to be perfect anyway.


Berserk I don't think is worth it compared to good old heroism or frenzy if you're a mage and short on might runes. +6 attack is +20% damage, and much more reliable. But it's great for a viking who's got plenty. In particular, that and absolute rage lets berserk berserkers with berserker proc (oh Katauri, you need to come up with some more diverse names) hit upwards of 40k on Loki (it'd be 50k if Valhalla's messenger actually worked...), so with some luck you can have him dead after about 5 turns. However there's no reason to waste turns hitting the summoned stacks. Using Mista's ability you can control berserk units, and honestly it's much more useful than any of the others (christa's and regina's are only useful for the medal, you can get rage from potions or chaining from a previous fight, and speed and initiative aren't very good when the arena's full of traps), and the summons will kill themselves through retal if loki doesn't.

Loki seems to have extremely high defence (my berserkers weren't reaching their 3x damage until a few frenzy boosts kicked in, and I had something like 46 attack from my hero), so I don't think tier 1's are a great idea. Berserkers and ancient/polar bears (they'll just about always have their attack boost) are probably the best choices offensively to take him down quickly.

Ah, good old naming overlap strikes again. I need to be more precise: I was talking about the berserk talent in the end, which is nice to have, but in the beginning, I meant the berserk spell which gives +180% attack or something like that at lvl3 (and +crit chance) - but you mentioned Mista and Berserkers already, so it's the same idea
Knights/Paladins with berserk spell (or Mista's effect) are strong in both offense and defense.