This article is hilarious because like the author I didn’t know what I was doing and chose bard as my first character (still don’t know what I’m doing but I’m trying) and would do a lot of the same tricks he did. Pushing people off a ledge was my go to.
The way I approach every fight:
Only way to beat buddy in Shar’s temple actually
I was happily able to kill him before he summoned anything by dropping him to 1hp and making him burn to death before he was able to