Any tips for Ogres on level 3?

My party consists of: PC (lvl 7 Ranger with wolf), Eder (lvl 7, tank build), Durance (lvl7 Interdiction Maxed), Grieving Mother (lvl7 controller), Hiravias (lvl7 spell caster build), and a custom Wizard (lvl 6 melee focused). On PoTD.

Make sure that you have 4 survival on Hiravias, Wizard and especially GM with Durance. You want +10 acc vs wilder. You can also rest at an inn, and after that rest once in the wild, for both survival and inn bonuses.

Start in scouting mode. Unstealth Eder first and rush him towards closest non druid. After 1s unstealth the rest of the party, and cast Painful Interdiction asap. You really want to lower their fort and will. Now you can follow up with Slicken. Additionally start chain-casting Whisper of Treason on those druids. Remember: keep the target you want to kill paralyzed by Mental Binding, while keep their spellcasters charmed.

If you lack accuracy, let your priest buff the party with Devotions for the Faithful asap. Otherwise use both spell usages of 4th rank for Shinning Beacon. Additionally don't forget to blind them, either via Chill Fog or Sunbeam, to reduce their deflection and acc.

So, I've been trying to make it to Endless Paths level 4 so that I can get the bow for my ranger

In my last run, I jumped into the pit on 2nd EP level, with a lvl 4 party. And made my way from level 5 to level 4 in order to get that bow. After that backtraced to level 5 and exited via master staircase. In such a way I had both Resolution and Persistence before I went to Raedric's Hold on lvl 5.

This level was a toughie. Here is the approach that worked well for me:

• Pull extremely carefully.

  • The biggest threat from the Ogres are the Druid's AoEs.
  • So, keep your party far back somewhere out of line of sight and out of AoE range, behind a choke point.
  • Get them far enough away that your tank will have to run back to them quite a ways.
  • Have your tank very slowly creep up to the mob groups. Try to pull just one or two Ogres from a group. If you get more, that's okay... Sometimes when you run back a couple (especially the casters in the back) will stop chasing, leaving only one or two mobs following your tank.

• If you successfully pull just one Ogre, stun it as much as possible and burn it down fast. This shouldn't be a problem. Hopefully you won't even have to burn many per-rest abilities.

• If you pull a big group, CHARM/Dominate are your best friends. Charm the nearest Ogre, then retreat! Get out of AoE range. If you Charm a melee Ogre, they can very quickly destroy the Druid/caster ogres. You can keep charm chaining melee ogres until the Druids are dead, usually. Just be sure to keep your party (or at least your Squishies) out of the Druid AoE.

• If you can't control the pull enough and Charm is not doing the trick debuff Accuracy as much as possible on the Druid(s) and buff your own AoE defenses. Then try to CC-lock the Druid(s).

This worked wonders for me and it's actually how I approached most of the extra tough fights on PotD when I was under-leveled. I cleared Floor 3 of Of Nua on PotD difficulty at level 3 or 4, so this should definitely work with your level+party. It can be annoying having to pull so cautiously and retreat, but it shouldn't be as bad at your level and no matter how tactical you're having to be with pulls, retreats, chokes, charms, CC's, etc... It's so worth it to see those big baddies fall!

I found the stun rune from durance really helped. Set it so that it causes one ogre to somewhat block the path for others, and set traps along the way. You also want to kite them toward the exit, then if needed run back to escape after killing one or two. Usually I would leave my party far back from the puller so they aren't hit by the aoe. Also, keep setting the stun runes behind you as they activate and you kite. It works pretty well. Good luck!

There is a really cheesy way do this. Equip your whole party with range weapons, preferably something that has high damage and/or DR bypass.

Shoot the ogres, run away, wait until they start to turn around, shoot them again, rinse and repeat. This works on all slow melee monsters as far as I'm aware. E.g. Trolls, Forest Lurkers, etc.

Depends on what ogre group specifically you're pulling but:

After the first 5 or so ogres. Heading "north" past Thulgar and "west" towards the master staircase....this is the group I had the most touble with. I pull them back around the corner with one character heading back towards the entrance to the level. Basically I go as far back as I can without running into the "southern" ogre group. Then I paralyze druid (if he even bothers to run after me that far). I used the spell fetid caress I think but any strong single target cc will do. You cannot let them cast insects or you'll die. With the rest of the ogres I basically used the same strategy. I even mange pulling Zolla (by herself!) back to the level 3 entrance bridge.

There’s an item for sale in the Mercenary Hall north of Copperlane, which is unlocked after finishing the breastplate quest.

It gives 3 uses of whisper of treason to any character that equips it, which targets the ogre’s low will.

Use this to charm the big dumb ogres at the start of the fight, and then spam the slicken spell or other knock down from there. Basically, you need the druids to never have a window to cast, or you’re done for.