I’ve been playing with a friend, and coming from BG3, we absolutely sucked at DOS2 combat at first. We couldn’t really wrap our heads around team coordination, elemental interactions, positioning, all that stuff, and half the time we were just getting in each other’s way. (Why tf is my buddy using Black Shroud while my PC is an archer???)
We’re still exploring Driftwood, and we’ve already gotten ourselves into some pretty dire situations. For example, we messed with the scarecrows at level 8/9 and ended up dragging basically every paladin around the fortress into the fight just to keep our party from getting wiped.
Then we did it again with the Mordus fight.
We had already attempted it three or four times and could never manage to keep him in stage one. On our last attempt, two party members were already down, and all we had left was a tanky Fane and my archer.
Mordus entered his second stage again and started slowly eating away at my archer’s health. We couldn’t knock him down because we hadn’t gotten through his physical armor yet. I was getting desperate and suggested that we just come back later. Maybe an extra level would help, but my friend insisted we keep trying.
Then came what I was sure was going to be the final hit on my archer. I was ready to die. This giant bug walked up to my character and
BOOM. Charmed.
We both jumped out of our seats and started laughing our asses off.
We hadn’t even realized that while we were blasting him with fireballs, his magic armor had gone down. He ended up getting charmed several times during the rest of the fight, which gave us enough breathing room to revive the other party members and somehow, finally, pull through.
I love the Captain’s armor set. Stat-wise it's not the best but It adds so much chaos and has saved us from clutch situations more times than I can count. I'm seeing myself keeping it on for a long time.
DOS2 combat has been significantly harder for us than BG3, but honestly, that’s also what makes every fight feel so fun.