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This or Cacophony for Shillelagh build?

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Shadow-Cursed Shambling Mound = level 9, 202HP, AC 17, good resistances, hard-hitting
and his pack = level 3 (28HP) and level 6 (72HP)
plus two extra undead warriors

Looks like a very big challenge to any mid-level party.
Actually?
One of the easiest fights in the entire game: everyone can solo it.

Simple strategy: shoot and hide.
1. Go (jump) to the other side of the chasm.
2. Close in to shoot when it's your turn.
3. Move out of enemies' line of sight before ending your turn.
Reason: the boss has STR=20, which is not enough for jumping over the chasm without taking a detour or the aid of a spell/item. Neither of his minions can.

If you wish to fight them fair and square (i.e., in close combat), some tips:
1. Treat every level 3 monster (HP=28) as a deadly walking bomb (damage of detonation upon death = 7-52).
They are the only real danger in this fight.
About the boss:
2. Tested: I sent Astarion (AC=20) to let the boss attack; he couldn't land a hit or otherwise harm Astarion.
3. Tested: I sent Shadowheart (AC=21) to let him attack; he would pull her to make her fall prone and then cast an AOE spell to do about 6 damage/round.
4. Tested: he would stay a *perfect* distance away from the Guardian summoned by Shadowheart.
5. Tested: you could be entangled for attacking him in melee, opening you up for his multi-attacks.
6. How to safely kill the boss in close combat: It's okay to be in melee range, but try not to use melee weapons (extra-reach ones might be okay - not tested).
7. How to safely kill the minions in close range: Don't let them near you or companions. Let them surround your summon(s) and detonate them all.
8. Don't shovel him or his minions into the chasm.
9. No summons? Just send a companion to group the monsters up and kill/detonate one in the middle. After that, quickly use "Help" to resurrect this companion for free.

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When I use this weapon along with Shillelagh (on Halsin, I don't know if the class or the character is important for this), it deals an additional 1d4 damage, listed as "Ironwood Harmony" in the combat log, on top of the 1d8 from Shillelagh, the +1 from enchantment and the WIS modifier, which technically makes it even better than if the weapon had a +3. I'm surprised this isn't listed anywhere in the game, and no mention of it on the wiki or any other post.

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As a Level 7 team (Many might be level 6 as well, I cleared every cm square of every nook and cranny up to this point):

- Level 9 Minor Boss (Shadow-Cursed Shambling Mound) which kept on critting over and over again..
- 2x Level 6 Shadow-Cursed Vine Blight
- 6× Level 3 Shadow-Cursed Needle Blight
- and 2 Corpses revived to fight us.

And all you get is a Ring that burns yourself from the chest and this entirely useless Club from the minor boss, special name but absolutely no ability, only a +1 generic item.. (at least for the time being)

Way to troll us Devs.. you got us good this time lol
Could have made a very nice material for a unique weapon craft for the future.

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Trash loot when compared with the difficulty of the fight

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Dropped off the Shadow-Cursed Shambling Mound. Very underwhelming when considering the fight you have to get through to get one of these. It's simply a Club +1; Perhaps they meant to add a bonus effect to it?

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