Trial of elders banshee

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:51 pm

I]'m in the trial of Elders at the cage trial. When i first enter the 1st room the banshee boss attacks me. I've tried fighting her and it seems i do no damage before she kills me. i tried running to the chests while taking damage and i get killed. I'm level 10 Fighter-marauder/adept-celestial. level 5 in light weap, medium weapons, light dual wield. I've got level 5 in celestial magic and channel. is there some strategy that works for the banshee?

silvertrey · Post by **silvertrey** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:03 pm

I'm basically the same specialization as you and the way I did it was attack the hell out of her til she started to cast a spell, shield up and just take the beating, and repeat. Took quite a while so I don't know if thats much help to ya as far as strategy is concerned. Maybe it's some relief to know someone else suffered too, peace mein.

swcarter · Post by **swcarter** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:05 pm

Did you try reading this section? The banshee is pretty slow, so as long as you can dodge her once, you should be able to avoid her and loot the necessary chests.

SWC

Hounder · Post by **Hounder** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:17 pm

Best bet with the banshee is to try and lure her into one of the small rooms and basically beat the heck outta her. She will cast that one spell a few time a minute for a while, but then will dramatically slow down and cast it maybe once every few minutes. She doesn't frop anything, but is still good for experience. Whenever she casts the spell, just block. But, be sure to have a few extra shields unless you happen to have one that has magic resistance. Those shields will take a beating. Healing potions/crystals will be a good thing as well.

Vequ · Post by **Vequ** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:48 pm

Umm... You can have her chase you around, then you run up to the cage. If you navigate to the side of the cage that will be parallel to where the banshee would be, she will become stuck in the cage. You can do two things here: 1) Manuever so you can shoot through the gaps in the bars of the cage with a ranged, and spend 45 minutes taking her down or, 2) once she is stuck, go near her, commence to let loose a bombardment of melee attacks, then when she begins to cast, backflip out (if possible, but I always take athletics to 4. That backflip is vital for me). You can turn, then run and jump away from her, but not near as effective or as fast in avoiding damage done by the Banshee's special. With a Fighter/Marauder, I can kill her in less than 10 minutes by going in, meleeing (With an elven war dagger and a katana), then backflip out when she casts. I take minimal damage, so only a few potions are necessary (if all the random elf spirit spawns are done, which can be done by saving your game in that trial, exit, then load it again).

For me, this tactic, if you are able to, works better than wasting shields that youll need later on, and trying to fight that scream of hers (the shrieking star kinda spell). Even with a non-Duel wielder, its by far faster than using just ranged (unless of course your melee is a P.O.S.)

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:16 am

Thanks for the advice. i'll try these strategies out. BTW, I really like this game, even thouygh I've never really played an action/fighting game before. Ivrecognize how unfinished it is, but I'm really into it. Hopefully a future patch will fix some things.

whisqui · Post by **whisqui** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:15 pm

take your time

throwing weapons are the best. walk backwards w/automap on in any one of the rooms. if you keep plenty of distance from her, you can keep hitting her while keeping your own stats up--this also keeps her from shooting at you, she only does this within a certain distance. this does take time, but the points are well worth it, keep this idea through the whole trial & you should rake in quite a few points.

punckywunckie · Post by **punckywunckie** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:23 pm

iam stuck help please

ok iam in the trial of elders and it sucks , just how u get passed the last room where the fire is and all the spirits are at and i keep dying. please help me

ferncliff · Post by **ferncliff** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:08 pm

I hope you haven't saved in that room if so you may have bigger problems then fireballs. I can think of a number of things to do before you go in to the trial that will make that room easier (buy fire wards, divine intervention) but now that your there try running around, not stopping to attack things, till the fireball throwing elder guy has killed everything for you or at least lightened your load. If you keep moving he will usually miss. Don't stay too close to the walls as the fireballs splash. D

Vequ · Post by **Vequ** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:16 pm

What I do in the Fire Sprout section, is basically just do hit and runs... let the boss for that section help deal damage with the fire balls. When the white lightning (for lack of a better word) begins to come out of one of the pads, step on it ASAP. That will keep the spirit from manifesting. Helps with crowd control. If you've loaded in this trial, you will not be able to finish it, as all manifesting of spirits end when you load a game in that section (aswell as many of the other places). You can only get pass this section by withstanding the wave of spirits, and then jumping on the platform when it is lowered.

punckywunckie · Post by **punckywunckie** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:28 pm

thank u for the help

i spented about 2 hours the night before now it took me about 10 min or so to get out so thank u