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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4328132" data-attributes="member: 58197">My party had four characters - an eladrin wizard, a half-elf Charisma warlord, an elf archer ranger, and a human fighter.&nbsp; Our DM scaled the Irontooth encounter by removing the two dragonshields.I think the main reason we survived was that we made Irontooth come to us instead of going in to him.&nbsp; Our ranger botched his Stealth check to sneak into one of the caves on the cliffside, and we knew the kobolds were alerted to our presence (cue Vader jokes); so we set ourselves up behind the rocky area on the far side of the pool, and laid siege to the place.&nbsp; A couple of kobold minions peeked out from various spots, and each time one of them did, it got an arrow in the eye or a javelin through the chest.(I would just like to interject here that javelins are teh awesome.&nbsp; Finally, you can be a Strength-based heavy tank with mediocre Dexterity and still have a decent ranged attack!)Finally Irontooth got his surviving forces together and charged out at us.&nbsp; He put the minions in front, and he himself followed with the wyrmpriest, while the skirmishers came out of the caves on the sides to flank us.&nbsp; The minions took the brunt of our readied attacks; we wiped half of them out in the first round.&nbsp; After that, we concentrated fire on Irontooth and took him out fairly quickly, although he dished out a lot of punishment to the fighter and the warlord before we finished him.The stragglers gave us quite a bit of trouble, especially the wyrmpriest, who took brutal advantage of our fighter's crappy Reflex defense (11).&nbsp; Half the party was in single digits and all of us were bloodied by the time we wiped out the last of them.&nbsp; I'm fairly sure that if we'd tried to go in through the waterfall and duke it out on Irontooth's turf, he'd have wiped the floor with us.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 4328132, member: 58197"] My party had four characters - an eladrin wizard, a half-elf Charisma warlord, an elf archer ranger, and a human fighter. Our DM scaled the Irontooth encounter by removing the two dragonshields. I think the main reason we survived was that we made Irontooth come to us instead of going in to him. Our ranger botched his Stealth check to sneak into one of the caves on the cliffside, and we knew the kobolds were alerted to our presence (cue Vader jokes); so we set ourselves up behind the rocky area on the far side of the pool, and laid siege to the place. A couple of kobold minions peeked out from various spots, and each time one of them did, it got an arrow in the eye or a javelin through the chest. (I would just like to interject here that javelins are teh awesome. Finally, you can be a Strength-based heavy tank with mediocre Dexterity and still have a decent ranged attack!) Finally Irontooth got his surviving forces together and charged out at us. He put the minions in front, and he himself followed with the wyrmpriest, while the skirmishers came out of the caves on the sides to flank us. The minions took the brunt of our readied attacks; we wiped half of them out in the first round. After that, we concentrated fire on Irontooth and took him out fairly quickly, although he dished out a lot of punishment to the fighter and the warlord before we finished him. The stragglers gave us quite a bit of trouble, especially the wyrmpriest, who took brutal advantage of our fighter's crappy Reflex defense (11). Half the party was in single digits and all of us were bloodied by the time we wiped out the last of them. I'm fairly sure that if we'd tried to go in through the waterfall and duke it out on Irontooth's turf, he'd have wiped the floor with us. [/QUOTE]

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