Lorroakan/Combat

Overview

Combat

This page focuses on Lorroakan's behavior during turn-based combat gameplay.

Attacks and abilities

 Cone of Cold ()

8d8 (8~64) Cold

Make a flurry of frost, crisp air, and condensed snow crystals erupt from your hands.

CON Save

 Range: Self

AoE: 9 m / 30 ft (Cone)

 Elemental Retort ()

3d8 (3~24) Lightning

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3d8 (3~24) Poison

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3d8 (3~24) Fire

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3d8 (3~24) Cold

When you take damage, you can retaliate, blasting your attacker with the elemental damage of each myrmidon currently  Siphoned.

DEX Save

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Fire Bolt ()

1d10 (1~10) Fire

Hurl a mote of fire.

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Fireball ()

8d6 (8~48) Fire

Shoot a bright flame from your fingers that explodes upon contact, torching everything in the vicinity for 8d6Fire damage.

DEX Save

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

AoE: 4 m / 13 ft (Radius)

 Lightning Bolt ()

8d6 (8~48) Lightning

Call forth a blast of lightning that hits all creatures in the line of the eruption.

DEX Save

 Range: Self

AoE: 30 m / 100 ft (Line)

 Mirror Image ()

Create 3 illusory duplicates of yourself to distract attackers. Each duplicate increases your  Armour Class by 3.

Whenever you successfully evade an attack, one of the duplicates disappears.

 Range: Self

 Misty Step ()

Surrounded by silver mist, you teleport to an unoccupied space you can see.

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Poison Spray ()

1d12 (1~12) Poison

Project a puff of noxious gas, dealing 1d12Poison to a target.

CON Save

 Range: 3 m / 10 ft

 Ray of Frost ()

1d8 (1~8) Cold

Reduces the target's Movement Speed by 3 m / 10 ft.

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Shocking Grasp ()

1d8 (1~8) Lightning

The target cannot use Reactions. This spell has Advantage on creatures with metal Armour.

 Melee: 1.5 m / 5  ft

Allies

• Krank
• Miklaur
• Rolan (conditional)
• Air Myrmidon
• Earth Myrmidon
• Fire Myrmidon
• Water Myrmidon

Encounter details

At the start of the fight, Lorroakan will begin siphoning power from his four myrmidons, granting him immunity to Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning. If he is attacked, he will use  Elemental Retort on the person who attacked him, dealing significant damage from 4 different elemental types, one for every myrmidon he is siphoning from. Elemental Retort doesn't cost a Reaction, allowing him to use it over and over again each round.

The Earth Myrmidon will occasionally cast  Stoneskin on Lorroakan, giving him extra resistances to non-magical damage.

If the party saved Rolan from his expedition into the Shadow-Cursed Lands in Act Two, but did not save Cal and Lia during Rescue the Tieflings, then Rolan will choose to fight alongside Lorroakan. If the party did save Cal and Lia, then Rolan will choose to turn on Lorroakan and fight alongside the party.

Tactics

Ignoring Lorroakan and killing his Myrmidons first is a possible strategy. Each killed Myrmidon removes the associated elemental immunity and damage from Elemental Retort, making it less punishing to actually attack him.

Alternatively, it is also possible to simply tank the damage with your strongest martial characters and aim to kill Lorroakan outright as he only has 98 HP on Balanced difficulty and is the most dangerous enemy with his array of spells. Given his 4 different damage immunities it may be easiest to deal this damage through weapon attacks, especially if the character in question has equipment to enable critical hits. On some difficulties, killing Lorroakan will also cause the Myrmidons to vanish, though Krank, Miklaur, and Rolan will remain.

Lorroakan cannot cast  Elemental Retort if he has been knocked  Prone. If the party has a means of inflicting  Prone such as  Trip Attack (Melee),  Crushing Flight, or  Enraged Throw, then the fight can be trivialized by simply knocking Lorroakan down and killing him before he can stand up again. Silencing Lorroakan will also prevent him from casting it.^{[Needs Verification]}

Tactician difficulty

On Tactician, he gains Elemental Adept for acid, fire, lightning and cold elements, which ignores resistance and slightly increases damage. This can make his Elemental Retort more powerful.

Notes

• Lorroakan's myrmidons have weaker weapons compared to other myrmidons encountered throughout the game. They don't have innate elemental damage components and are not enchanced. The unique weapon abilities aren't changed.