Lorroakan/Combat

Overview

Combat

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

Attacks and abilities

 Chromatic Orb: Poison ( + )

Damage: 2~16

2d8⁠Poison

Hurl poisonous energy that damages the target and creates a bubbling surface to  Poison creatures.

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Cone of Cold ( + )

Damage: 8~64

8d8⁠Cold

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

 CON Save

 Range: Self

 Elemental Retort ()

Damage: 12~96

3d8⁠Lightning

+ 3d8⁠Poison

+ 3d8⁠Fire

+ 3d8⁠Cold

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 ()

Damage: 1~10

1d10⁠Fire

Hurl a mote of fire.

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Fireball ( + )

Damage: 8~48

8d6⁠Fire

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

 Fly ()

Fly to a target position

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Lightning Bolt ( + )

Damage: 8~48

8d6⁠Lightning

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

 DEX Save

 Range: Self

 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 ()

Damage: 1~12

1d12⁠Poison

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

 CON Save

 Range: 3 m / 10 ft

 Ray of Frost ()

Damage: 1~8

1d8⁠Cold

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

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Shocking Grasp ()

Damage: 1~8

1d8⁠Lightning

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 cast  Elemental Retort as a reaction on the person who attacked him, dealing significant damage from 4 different elemental types, one for every myrmidon he is siphoning from. Each siphoned myrmidon also grants an additional  Reaction to Lorroakan allowing him to use this spell up to 5 times per 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 is prevented from reacting which can be accomplished many ways. Incapacitating conditions like  Prone,  Stunned, or  Hold Person all prevent reactions. Some spells like  Shocking Grasp or  Arms of Hadar also specifically block spending  Reaction resources. If the party can inflict one of these conditions, Lorroakan can safely be focused down without killing the myrmidons first. On the other hand,  Silencing Lorroakan will not prevent him from using Elemental Retort.

Despite being able to use  Fly, Lorroakan does not fly back to the tower if thrown off of it, making this a valuable tactic for an instant kill through actions like  Shove,  Thunderwave or  Gust of Wind. Killing him this way does not trigger Elemental Retort. While this precludes looting him, his tower contains more powerful alternatives to the staff and robes he has equipped.

Finally, Lorroakan can be easily defeated by stealthy means; refer to this guide for more details. If defeated this way,  Rolan appears and, after being spoken with, becomes hostile to any party members present if not convinced otherwise.

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 do not have innate elemental damage components and are not enhanced. The unique weapon abilities are not changed.

Bugs

• Even though Lorroakan has the spell  Cone of Cold, he does not currently have a level 5 spell slot to cast it.
• If Lorroakan's myrmidons are defeated by stealth prior to the party fighting him alongside the  Nightsong, the cutscene shows myrmidons by his side, but when the battle begins, he still stands alone.