How the hell are you supposed to beat Urkis?

[HamTheBacon]

That damn High Tempest bastard, everytime i enter his sigh his freezes me for 6 turns? what the hell is that? and by the time the 6 is up im already dead like how do you beat this guy? i cant hit him unless i enter his sigh, and if i enter his sight im dead, i dont see a way to kill this guy.

What am i missing?

Im a lvl 16 Archmage with 220hp and 160 mana with arcane surge and the bonus shielding on. i really cant see a way to beat this guy.

[SageAcrin]

A: Physical-effect-curing Wild infusions will cure that iceblock effect. That includes your default Wild infusion.

B: Level Constitution some. It sounds like you're not leveling it, and using a lower HP race to boot. Archmages have some of the lowest HP in the game and some extra Con can really help.

[HamTheBacon]

Well now im calling huge BS on this guy, he casts 4 or 5 spells per turn, and if i survive that, he hits me as i attack, what the hell? how am i supposed to beat him if hes casting 5 spells a turn

[aardvark]

He really only casts 1 spell per turn, but he'll catch you with Hurricane. Hurricane puts an effect on you that zaps you with lightning every turn for 10 turns, so it seems like he gets extra attacks. I find lightning resistance a must for dealing with him. Around 40%, minimum.

[HamTheBacon]

Not only that but now hes hitting me with that ice block when he has 0 line of sight to me, i phase door away and he hits me while at least 15 blocks away, and on top of that seems to be able to hit me no matter where i go or what i do it hits.

If i cant beat him with this second last life im making a video of his total bs and putting it on youtube, this is stupid.

[peaceoutside]

He doesn't heal. No life regen, no healing talents. If you have a way to teleport or otherwise escape, just throw some burst damage his way, escape and repeat.

Having a way to remove both magical (hurricane) and physical (freeze) negative status effects is pretty important for this fight.

With the correct gear, talents and strategy this boss isn't too hard compared to some other ones.

Also, make sure you have a way to detect his presence at long range. I think the area in which he resides isn't lit even though it is outside.

[Frumple]

If you're looking for the low-tactics method of dealing with Urkis, get stun immunity (fairly trivial to get by that point with several classes; bulwarks and 'zerkers among the initially unlocked stuff stand out.) and a decent chunk (40+%, more if possible, since Urky'll blow through half of it with Tempest. Unless you can disable the sustain, hint hint.) of lightning resistance. Maybe a lil'bit of cold res if you can't be arsed to dodge the ice shards. Between those you trivialize most of Urkis's offensive capabilities and turn 'im into more or less a non-threat.

With an archmage... drop a freeze, drop some dakka, teleport out, repeat once, maybe twice. Only thing dude's immune to is blind (well, and lightning but whatever), so whatever disables you have beyond that, feel free to throw those up, too. Toss up some illuminates to make sure you've got LoS and can get the first shot in; try to hit around a corner with freeze, if you can, then open up on 'im.

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Like that. @ is you, U is Urkis. Hit with freeze, unload a bit, teleport out when he comes 'round the corner. Rinse and repeat. Bunch of stuff you can do, outside of the freeze and hurricane (maybe a double-tap due to daze or somethin', I'unno.), Urkis is a bit of a chump. He can surprise you, but the surprise gets kinda' routine after a few gos at 'im.

[Hunter]

Really, the main danger from Urkis is the hurricane/lightning that staggers you for several rounds. With an archmage, you can take shameless advantage of LOS to get him around corners (as the comment above diagrams), especially with AoE spells and DOT ones. I personally like to used fire spells (that last one, I can't recall the name) to catching several squares away from the corner so he's damaging himself with every step (this assumes you have some way of detecting his approach, of course. Arcane eye is your friend, since telepathy is relatively rare at this stage of the game.) Teleport away, find a nook or cranny, repeat. The hard ones, imho, are the classes with few or non range attacks and less health/melee buffs than the berserker/bulwark so toe-to-toe is deadlier. Undead are particularly prone because they lack infusions to remove the status effects. An archmage, intelligently run, should be able to blindside Urkis to death pretty efficiently.

[supermini]

That damn High Tempest bastard, everytime i enter his sigh his freezes me for 6 turns? what the hell is that? and by the time the 6 is up im already dead like how do you beat this guy? i cant hit him unless i enter his sigh, and if i enter his sight im dead, i dont see a way to kill this guy.

What am i missing?

Im a lvl 16 Archmage with 220hp and 160 mana with arcane surge and the bonus shielding on. i really cant see a way to beat this guy.

First of all, don't go there on level 16, go at level 25 or so. Get some lightning resistance (40-50% is great, but you can do it with less). Figure out where he is using arcane eye. Before you walk into his line of sight, put a damage shield up and aegis it. Walk into his line of sight, and if your shields and resistances are decent you should survive the first blow easily. Dispel his sustains, stun him with flameshock/freeze him, reshield if needed, a few more hits and he should be dead.

The more lightning resistance you have for that fight, the more trivial it becomes. That's why it's a good idea to save all resistance gear you can use from level 1.

[overtrix]

Infinite Dungeon Level 1, opened a vault ... Urkis

This was over quite quickly