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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jamesmanhattan" data-source="post: 6225363" data-attributes="member: 75838">because I messed up the dragons HP, and it freaking bleeds acid all the time so I tried a different Solo, there was only one of the “new” style solos at level 18.Level 18 Solo Controller - Water Drake (Dark Sun)adjust HP down by 1/5th because there are 4 players, so Drake had 272HP from 340HPFighter, Bard, Monk, Druidrd 1drake wins initopens with Orb of Boiling Water, hits 3 of 4creates psionic clone, monk goes, whacks psionic clone killing it, keeps moving and hits drake 3 times spending a ki pointfighter comes up and hits twice.Druid casts sunbeam to hope to blind it, drake makes save takes half 12 dmgbard swift heals self 4d8+2 and turns on bard song rnd 2drake psionic clone does not rechargebites at monk, fighter imposes disadvantage, still hits! for 29dmg! monk still standsclaws fighter, claws monk, drops the monkAction points!bite claw claw at fighter, he stays upFighter hits once, Action Surges hits 1 and CRITS! for 28 (drake is still not bloodied)Druid casts lvl 4 cure wds on Monk, restores 40HPBard swift casts lvl3 cure wds on fighter for 23HP, shoots bow twice, misses bothrd 3drake still no recharge anythingbite at monk, fighter disadvantages him, misses2 claws at fighter, 1 hitsspends last action point, fighter is wounded, so bites fighter hits, and 1 claw fighter, 1 claw monk just to be nice. drops fighter to 0, fighter fails Defy Death saveMonk supreme flurries and +1 attack (2 ki points), bloodies the drakewho uses orb of boiling water, and amazingly monk and bard remain standingbut both realize they will die on start of their turns from the 10 dmgdrudi wishes he had a ranged heal spell, moves and casts lvl 4 cure wds on bardbard moves and heals monk, then shoots bow twice, hits oncerd 4 drake focuses on monk, bite claw claw and drops him anywaysummons psionic clone, and no one is there to kill itclone goes to town on bard, but only hits with bite! bard survivesdrudi calls lvl 4 lightning 5d10, both drake and clone make their savebard swift heals fighter because he has good chance at staying up, heal heal heal then shoots bow twice kills clone, and hits drake oncerd 5drake no rechargedrake bites fighter, imposes disadvantage, it saves him, both claws miss also!druid lightning, hits for 17dmgrd6 drake recharges clonebites at fighter, disadvantage, and still hits! drops fighter to 0, he makes defy death saveunfortunately claw hits him and he doesn't make the defy death save this time.misses monk with other clawMonk crits on his opening salvo, spending 2 ki points to supreme flurry with Advantage, punches the clone, killing it just to be safehits drake,hits drake with last final blow killing the drake.Wow, lots of healing, lots of up and down, lots of resources spent, but they did it.Druid went through all 1 level 6 spell, all 3 level 4 spells, but no level 5 spellsBard went through all 3 level 3 spells, all 3 level 2 spellsConclusion:This would have been a Solo that was two levels higher than the target 4E party, so it was intended to be a very tough fight. These D&D Next players managed to survive. I consider this a success.</blockquote>

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