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

[rbeverjr]

I actually found the horrid rakasha harder than this group. I ended up letting the rakasha chase me around, banging him every now and then, until his protections ran out. Of course you need to clean out a loop in the sewers for your race.

I suggest going around both the rakasha and the overwhelmingly experienced sewer dwelling toll keepers Complete the Unseeing Eye Quest while avoiding Sikret's improvements. Follow thetruth and Sikret's outline of initial quests. First do the unimproved quests, then the copper coronet/slavers, etc. Right before the underdark, visit De'Arnis Keep. It's tough now. All the strongholds are tough for low levels. Be sure that you can cast Death Fog or at least bring a scroll of it.

Strategies to kill beholders have been presented on this forum. So, you can search if you'd rather not figure it out for yourself.

[sturmvogel]

I actually found the horrid rakasha harder than this group. I ended up letting the rakasha chase me around, banging him every now and then, until his protections ran out. Of course you need to clean out a loop in the sewers for your race.

I suggest going around both the rakasha and the overwhelmingly experienced sewer dwelling toll keepers Complete the Unseeing Eye Quest while avoiding Sikret's improvements. Follow thetruth and Sikret's outline of initial quests. First do the unimproved quests, then the copper coronet/slavers, etc. Right before the underdark, visit De'Arnis Keep. It's tough now. All the strongholds are tough for low levels. Be sure that you can cast Death Fog or at least bring a scroll of it.

I've been a bit intimidated by all the talk of the multiplying assassins in the Slaver HQ as they were a real problem in my brief battle with Borinall (before pulling the plug). Not sure if I wanted to deal with them as one of my early improved quests or not.

I'm very fond of Death Fog although Sikret has reduced its effects against the bosses. But I'm not sure that I want Kelsey to use a spell slot for it when he levels up in a bit. So far I've got PfME and Imp. Haste chosen, but Contingency is really tempting for my next 6th level spell.

[rbeverjr]

I've been a bit intimidated by all the talk of the multiplying assassins in the Slaver HQ as they were a real problem in my brief battle with Borinall (before pulling the plug). Not sure if I wanted to deal with them as one of my early improved quests or not.

I'm very fond of Death Fog although Sikret has reduced its effects against the bosses. But I'm not sure that I want Kelsey to use a spell slot for it when he levels up in a bit. So far I've got PfME and Imp. Haste chosen, but Contingency is really tempting for my next 6th level spell.

I think that the slaver ship in the slums (not slaver HQ in the temple area) is a little easier than taking the keep. If you can't take that ship, I'd bet you probably can't take the keep either. Both are challenging to low levels in my opinion.

A sorcerer's spell selection is important, and the selection for IA 4.2 will most certainly be different from the regular game. Death Fog is great for at least 2 reasons. Sometimes the enemy spams summons. (That's when you are lucky. Others will gait in improved golems or "snake" princes.) Death Fog gets rid of them - ongoing effect. Sometimes, the enemy mages don't put up protection from acid. Death Fog allows an ongoing possibility to interrupt their spell casting while they are laughing at you behind their electric ball of immunity abjuration. If you are lucky it works like that, but many of Sikret's monsters have very good magic and/or acid resistance...

This post has been edited by rbeverjr: May 15 2007, 06:02 PM