Talk:Harvester (strategy)

Good tips! Thank you!

I just finished it on hard myself. My main character was a level 29 Dual Weapon Warrior (Berserker/Templar/Spirit Warrior) with Awakening gear, every other character using their default gear. I found it impossible after a few attempts using Jerrik as his default setup, he just doesn't put out enough damage and there was so much AoE damage to deal with using all melee. I specialized him as Archer/Bard as was described here and was able to finish the fight after a few more attempts and tactic changes.

A few things I found:

- During Phase 1 the Harvester is not resistant to spirit damage, but during phase 2 becomes greatly resistant to it, so Spirit Warriors should disable Beyond the Veil if they want to do any kind of damage. - When he starts to near death in Phase 1 he uses Harvester Fury. I haven't done the fight enough to confirm this, but it seems to be a self buff that makes him hit a lot harder and a lot faster. I recommend that whatever character has threat just kites him around the room until he dies at this point, it's very difficult to heal through. - Twin-Strikes + Unending Flurry is a great way to take a huge chunk of health off if you are using a Dual Weapon character. The cooldown is very long but you should be able to use it at least once per phase. On phase 2 this combo did over 50% damage to his health using my warrior. - Near the end of phase 1 you might want to burn the switch as soon as the red phase begins. I found that between Harvester Fury and whatever buffs he gains from the red phase he can easily kill Brogan in one or two hits if you are using him to tank.