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How the heck do you kill it? The thing is driving me insane. Not only do you have to go through that beginning part where you're killing random weaklings, but then the boss is easily the hardest in the game. So I'm wasting 10 minutes over and over. Any good strategies? I'm half alchemy and half sword, so basically half my build is useless since you can't drink potions before the fight.

Please help me...I love the game, but this one boss is ruining the entire experience for me.
Run away from him when he's casting arrows / flamming balls of doom.
Hit him when he's not, and roll away after one or two hits.

Keep in mind that there may not be any sound when you hit him, I had that bug atleast.

EDIT.
Forgot to mention that you should let him charge and then hit him from behind :p.
Post edited May 21, 2011 by senbon
He does a few things which are somewhat easy to avoid.

-He will mostly charge at you, which you must dodge, then you can get a few free shots on him, i used Aard at this point, but im not sure if it helped at all.

-Next he will stand still and call in either a volley of arrows, or a trebuchet barrage, for the arrows you simply need to move away from where you were when he began casting it. For the trebuchet you need to move away from the glowing spots on the ground, i found this pretty hard to avoid since there can be multiple ones and you cannot go near the Draug because he will swipe at you when you approach.

-The last ability is a whirlwind, you can try run away from it, but i never managed to avoid it completely because there was not enough room to move around.

During my first playthrough on normal i was an alchemist, which put me at a huge disadvantage because as far as i know, there is no way to have potions active for this boss due to all the prior events. That meant that i didnt have any of the bonuses from being intoxicated and that i would die in two hits from anything.
I actually had to switch to easy to kill him for this one, which made it many orders of magnitude easier, i suggest doing this because having to do that damned bit beforehand over and over again is hellish (too many of those bloody shieled soldiers).
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Phazor: How the heck do you kill it? The thing is driving me insane. Not only do you have to go through that beginning part where you're killing random weaklings, but then the boss is easily the hardest in the game. So I'm wasting 10 minutes over and over. Any good strategies? I'm half alchemy and half sword, so basically half my build is useless since you can't drink potions before the fight.

Please help me...I love the game, but this one boss is ruining the entire experience for me.
Yard for all things.

Quen for when the arrows and trebuchets let loose in case you don't successfully roll out of the way and then just cast a Yard sign when he's about to charge and that will free him up for hits.

This tactic pretty much works for all major one on one fights in the game.
When in doubt, spam bombs.