Talk:Harvester (strategy)

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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.
 * - In my opinion way less skeletons will spawn when you set the difficulty from Nightmare to Hardcore. On Nightmare I always got a boss skeleton (orange) or sometimes even two at the same time, on Hardcore the worst I got was two elite (yellow) ones. In Phase 2 I was fighting one elite and some normal skeletons on Hardcore in one corner of the map, waiting for the Harvester to return to jump him with all party members as soon as he reappeared in my corner.


 * - The rank of the skeletons is random. I got an orange one even on Normal difficulty. Maybe they spawn more often at harder levels, I haven't checked that one yet. 78.28.13.239 (talk) 19:11, August 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * -Completed nightmare now with my DW spirit warrior - tore even through orange skeletons in a matter of seconds (just make sure stamina doesn't run out). Though Brogan died at the beginning of phase 2 even with good tanking gear, not even potions saved him.

Rogue - nightmare
I've found a pretty easy way to beat harvester on phase 2 on nightmare difficulty even with all of your party dead. I play as a rogue, with awakening skills so i just use stealth to get away from the skeletons,then i heal and apply all poisons etc. then i use strength of stone and go beat the sh*t out of the harvester. Skeletons do only physical damage and i become immune to it for a few seconds, then i use ghost(not stealth) to heal myself and run away as far as i can from skeletons,because these f*ckers keep chasing you no matter what, then wait until strength of stone is usable again and repeat it as many times as needed. hope it helps