by Alayim
In quests here I don't have reinforcements(like monsters hoarde), and in general, I have huge trouble with the runemaster.Problem is in many quests, the rune master single handedly destroys entire monster groups before I can act.
This is before the runemaster has any act II items.
For example, in Monsters Hoarde act II, this happened:
1. I place shadow dragons as far away the heroes and LOS as I could
2. Syndrael used his heroic feat on the runemaster ("You and a hero may immideatley perform a move action"). The runemaster moves forward to my shadow dragons.
3. The runemaster(Widow Tarha) use her heroic feat, allowing her to target 2 monsters (being both dragons).
4. The runemaster use a second attack, then use "Quick casting"
5. The runemaster use a THIRD attack
The runemaster has "The shadow rune" artifact, Runic Knowledge, Exploding rune, mana weave so for each fo these attacks he got:
- 1 blue die
- 2 yellow die
- a lot of surges, never miss (widow tarha can reroll, and she has mana weave)
- a total whopping +5 damage using 2 surges
End result: Widow Tarha killed both act II shadow dragons before they could act.
Had I chosen cave spiders instead, she could still have killed 4 of them.
The other 3 heroes spent fatigue to move and was able to kill one elemental in the other room.
So, even before its my turn, I have only 1 elemental left, of all my open groups. And no reinforcement.
How to counter the runemaster?