Tactical advice for Tarnor in the Sewers Options

[sturmvogel]

Having struggled mightily with Mencar Pebblecrusher's party (none of Keldorn's 3 Dispel Magics dropped Sorcerous Amon's protections (thank ghod for Emotion!)) I'm a bit concerned about trying to deal with Tarnor's crowd, which has always been more of a struggle for me in the regular game since I've never been a very tactically elegant player.
I gather than my normal tactic of invisibly sneaking up and letting off a double cloudkill has been deprecated by Sikret and would like some advice for my 1.2 million XP party consisting of:

Me R/C
Keldorn
Jahiera
Yoshio
Xan F/M
Kelsey

[Sikret]

I'm so glad to see that most of you (rbeverjr, luan, ...) are now enjoying the difficult battles of IA. Some of you were initially just a little bit worried about the difficulty of battles, but now from the successive reports of your triumphs, I gather that everything is going fine. And of course, the satisfaction of winning a difficult battle is greater than an easy one (not to mention the items you find and the XP you gain. In addition to the XP your characters gain, you -as the player- also gain tactical experience as some of you have mentioned before). I assure you that you will not enjoy playing the game with a lower level of difficulty any more. Welcome to the circle of tacticians!



PS: By the way, I forgot to ask you, rbeverjr! What was the first item you forged? I remember that a while ago, you wrote that you finally managed to forge your first improved item in the game.

[rbeverjr]

I'm so glad to see that most of you (rbeverjr, luan, ...) are now enjoying the difficult battles of IA. Some of you were initially just a little bit worried about the difficulty of battles, but now from the successive reports of your triumphs, I gather that everything is going fine. And of course, the satisfaction of winning a difficult battle is greater than an easy one (not to mention the items you find and the XP you gain. In addition to the XP your characters gain, you -as the player- also gain tactical experience as some of you have mentioned before). I assure you that you will not enjoy playing the game with a lower level of difficulty any more. Welcome to the circle of tacticians!

You are right about that. It's the reason I returned to IA after my initial objections to IA3 (which primarily runs along the lines of I like a difference between boss battles and mook battles). But the other games, even modded, just seemed too easy after IA3.

PS: By the way, I forgot to ask you, rbeverjr! What was the first item you forged? I remember that a while ago, you wrote that you finally managed to forge your first improved item in the game.

Boots of Improved Haste for the kensai protagonist. He now as an APR of 9-10, which can't be dispelled. He can add Critical Strike and Hardiness. He even has a decent AC until one of those nasty mages Dispel it.

I am finding some money now!!! Watchers Keep is shelling some over, and I found the flail of Easthaven that I convinced a demilich to hand over. I just have to check my bottomless bags for ingredients. I want that improved Easthaven. It should be a satisfactory substitute for the Flail of Ages .

This post has been edited by rbeverjr: May 15 2007, 01:27 PM