How to deal with Gremlion ?

[Zechnophobe]

There aren't in game messages, but trial and error works. Note that ONLY his area of effect attack is magic.

[jake21]

So I tried this with archmage, knight, paladin, horseman and archer and it went rather poorly. Basically lost 10 paladin and everything else. The problem is that even with shield and stone skin I lost 5+ knights a round and 2 or so paladin. Also the area attacks were still relatively frequent but not that damaging (had 55% resistance from cape/tomb).

I'll probably redo the fight but not sure of a good strategy. Actually it went ok till he was 3/4 dead then things got out of hand (I used phantom on paladin to resurrect periodically; the problem is I didn't do enough damage - basically the paladin was the only thing doing substantial damage everything else was blah so the fight took a long time). My thought is I should replace the knight and/or archers with assassins or royal snakes.

DBG when you made the suggestion what level/class did you play ?

[Elwin]

on mage i just burned him dawn with fire rain.
on warrior i used imba army : paladin,archmage,tirex,chosha,gorguana.
on paladin .. black knight and only black knight ;p

[ender]

Physical damage resistance>90% is what count in boss fight.
Paladins and Knights are good because they have ~30% physical resistance+ 40% from stone skin + 7% from medals = 77%.
You need another 15% from artifacts (boots, cuirass, dress).

With 92% resistance you take 8% from 4000 damage=320 dmg or 160 with mage shield.

Only Zigaldis need magic protection - for his area attack, fists are physical- but are more artifacts for that than for physical damage (and frog need poison, but is easy).

Royal Griffins (50% magic resist) are good for towers, but not for melee against zigaldis.
Demonogists (30% magic resist) for damage against Zigaldis.
Red dragons for no retal fire attack.