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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lacyon" data-source="post: 4545151" data-attributes="member: 63046">I've heard recently from a friend who had run a Hydra against a similar-level party. His impression was that the Hydra was a relatively weak fight overall, though some of that was due to the party composition, and it's possible he wasn't playing the Hydra to it's fullest. He tried the whole time to take down the Rogue (but he'd ruled that the Hydra could bypass the Fighter's Combat Challenge by directing one attack each action to the Fighter, so he was doing that as well). The Hydra should be making fury attacks all the time because it's a standard action at-will attack power. It should spend an action point to do it again when one foe has hit with a pretty major attack (like a potent daily or a critical sneak attack), to take out that foe. The Hydra doesn't have any ranged attacks, and relatively poor movement capability. Each of the Hydra's attacks is doing ~9.5 damage on a hit. Even if it hits with all 8 attacks where it spends an action point, it's not going to drop most Level 12 melee combatants in a single round, and the party can spend some actions healing that guy in the next round if they need to.</blockquote>