Sloth Demon

Borodin · Post by **Borodin** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:05 pm

OK, when you finally get to the showdown the the Sloth Demon....how many times do I have to kill this guy???? I keep beating him down and he just pops back up again with a full complement of hit points.

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:43 pm

If I recall, he will get up three or four times. The different forms the sloth demon assumes have the same strengths and weaknesses as the creature itself so use that to your advantage. The lyrium pools (or whatever they are) refill with each form so be sure to take advantage of that as well. And spread out your group when facing spell casting forms to avoid area of effect spells.

Elevoros · Post by **Elevoros** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:56 pm

Five times I think...4 in different "elemental" forms, and one in his regular form! If you keep Wynne and her mass heal around, you shouldn't have many problems!

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:41 pm

Elevoros wrote:Five times I think...4 in different "elemental" forms, and one in his regular form! If you keep Wynne and her mass heal around, you shouldn't have many problems!

This was tough, I'm a duelist rogue and had sten, shale, and morrigan. I had my greatest success when I switched my rogue and sten to ranged weapons and kept shale face to face with morrigan adding various freeze/stun/direct damage. Having the rogue, sten, and shale all in melee just got the party slaughtered as the area effect spells were ruining me.

Aqua-chan · Post by **Aqua-chan** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:08 pm

Truly? If I recall correctly, playing on Hard difficulty I just adopted the Golem shapeshift and wailed on the Sloth Demon. I'd quick switch out to my normal body to heal up, but I never found it necessary to counter his own alternative forms by taking another shape.

GoldDragon · Post by **GoldDragon** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:33 pm

A little note about the Lyrium Veins. I had a bit of Trouble using them with Dwarves, and their magic resistance.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:34 pm

Aqua-chan wrote:Truly? If I recall correctly, playing on Hard difficulty I just adopted the Golem shapeshift and wailed on the Sloth Demon. I'd quick switch out to my normal body to heal up, but I never found it necessary to counter his own alternative forms by taking another shape.

Ditto. Well, save for the occasional Burning man/fireball at my feet thing, but that was more because it was incredibly cool to blow myself up like that. I spent a good half hour just doing that after I got that form.

I basically backed everyone else out to long range and went toe to toe myself.

Except I wasn't a show off playing on Hard difficulty.

Aqua-chan · Post by **Aqua-chan** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:23 pm

Bloodstalker wrote:
Except I wasn't a show off playing on Hard difficulty.

You're just jealous 'cause you can't do it.

But really, there's no point in trying to coordinate your shapeshifts to match the weaknesses of the Sloth Demon's alternate forms. Just pick up on the Golem, hammer on Sloth until your health gets a bit low (with +300 health, you should be able to take a beating), then switch out to something like your normal form or, better yet, Burning Man. A well-placed fireball will stall for time while your mage heals you up (if you have a healer on hand, which you should.

). Return to Golem, rinse and repeat if necessary.

Julian · Post by **Julian** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:01 am

I struggled a bit with the sloth demon aswell. When all else failed I just switched to Spirit form and let Alistair tank her to death while Wynne and I healed him through it.