Shadow Reaver help (Act III *spoilers*)

[Spike45]

Hey guys. Need some help again. For some reason after I reforge the sword, I can't kill the second Shadow Reaver. Ammon Jerro says "Hold him off while I say his true name" and then I fight the Reaver for like twenty minutes. The only problem is he never dies. I take out all his minions and then fight him but Ammon never says his name like on the first Reaver? How can I fix this? I even left the game for like a half hour with them fighting and the only thing that changed was most of my party was dead. It says he is "near death" but he never actually dies? Is there an override for this? Or did anyone else have this problem? Thanks!

[swcarter]

AJ should have a scroll in his inventory. You need to have him use the scroll on the reaver. Then you should be able to kill it.

SWC

[sun_facer]

Don't mind if I dig up another thread.

Is it just me or does it take 2 rounds for the scroll to be read?

I had to reload 3 times before I cleared the 3 reavers on such a narrow bridge.
It seems that the cleric reads the scroll in 2 turns. The warlock... can't really tell from his animation.

Should it take so long?!

[Xandax]

It takes a long time to cast the spell, yes.
So the "best" course of action is to manually set them to cast the incantation and keep an eye on them.
If they get hit, or similar, it could cause them to loose "focus" and start doing other stuff then finish the spell.

[shift244]

I find that the most annoying thing in the fight is that you're totally surrounded. One of the better things to do might be to make use of Ammon to help in the battle and clear out most of those things coming from behind. A few well placed mass area effect spells tend to work well. When the fighters are engaged with the golems, either Ammon (or Zjehavie I believe) can actually use the incantation on the reaver, so use who ever is more available before engaging it at all.

Depending on party makeup and play style, you may want to start incantating early, and defend the incanter, or you might want to clear out most/all but the reaver and then have the party be more able to distract/focus on the reaver while the incanter does his thing.

[sun_facer]

Thanks fellas. I thought I was doing something wrong.

In the fight against the 3 reavers, I left AJ behind to deal with the one behind the bridge. Z was to deal with the other two who was in front.
It took so long for Z to read the thing, I lost 4 compansions. Kinda frustrating. Against Garius, Z was trapped behind a field. AJ was distracted and I realised that Garius need not have his true name read out.

[Daremyth]

Though Ur advices were of sound logic, the prob persists. Even now, i m in control of AJ "casting" the true name and as i am typing, i hear how nothing happens.

The thing is: when i activate the scroll, only a star appears in the upper action menu, and AJ is doing a small scroll reading gesture, and that's it. Nothing more. The scroll does not activate.

I do hope someone can help me out.

Kill spell, wake up call for AJ, something

[Darth Gavinius]

As far as I remember once the * is up that is him reading it, if there is not a lot of noise you can normally hear the incantation, but it is similar to reading a scroll, if something breaks his concentration you are back to square one. It is also best to directly control Ammon Jerro or Zhjaeve for this or turn off the AI once he/she starts casting. Sometimes it has taken me more than once to get them to do it, just make sure no-one interferes with them and use lots of area of effect spells and buffs to defend the party and if you have them both in the party have them both do the incantation to take down one enemy at a time!

[Loki[D.d.G]]

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Originally Posted by Daremyth The thing is: when i activate the scroll, only a star appears in the upper action menu, and AJ is doing a small scroll reading gesture, and that's it. Nothing more. The scroll does not activate.

Yeah, the star and Jerro holding the scroll means he is currently using it. He takes time to finish the incantation and cannot be disturbed as he is doing so.