My progress, spoilers Options

[Roy]

Hi

I am playing improved anvil right now.I finished IA3 and there's
certeinly a diffrence in it.It's tougher .

I'm playing with a sorcerer protagonist.I did the boo kidnapping
quest and right after I got in the grove the 3 trolls ran after
my sorcerer and ignored everyone else.

There's a bug where the trolls remain on near death and just won't fall
down.

After I got out from the irenicus dungeon I went to the graveyard
to look for items.On the getting out I was ambushed by suna sei
and friends and they killed me a lot.

I got lucky with a confusion scroll that got the somehow.
How did you defeat them in the beginning?Interupting them
from casting greater command and confusion?
The mages are a problem without breach and weak dispel.

I tried to go and get Keldorn but the party in the sewers is tough.

I got liliacor,rescued jan and viconia and little quests from
other mods.I think the next ones I'll try will be the circus and
trademeet.

Another question is with the oasis in TOB.Did it in IA3.There's
lots of gem golems and a few mages.I couldn't win it without serious
cheese.Kelsey mirror imaged himself,landed tons of comets
and all his spells,than I killed the image and did it about 10
times.

How do I win the battle?Is there a way to kill the golems faster?
I usually bring all the fighter on them with hammers,maces and it
still takes a lot of time to get rid of them.And than they summon more.

Some golem slayer kit or equipment or spells like reducing physical
resistence will be lovely addition to IA5.

The no stealing from shops came as a surprise.Usually in the beginning
I buffed a thief and took every usful equipment I could find.
Now it not even possible to charge the wands like that.

BTW,is there any progress with the Mansur NPC?

Edit:After a long fight and lots of reloads I defeated the founder
of trademeet.All of my party and summons to take his blows surrounded
him and it took lots of minutes and healing to take him down.

The tough thing about him was the magic resistence and he summond a lot
of skeleton warriors and I think he had physical resistence.

Is there a fast way of defeating him?

Edit2 21/4:

Finished thieves guild quest,was really easy.Tried the sewer party
again and got defeated again.My party is levels 10 so can't deal
yet with all the spells.The mages are tough.
I also did the murders in the bridge district and the ghost in the
grave yard.

Edit 24\4:Somehow my brother did hard disc cleaning and erased my saves
and BG2.So I'm reinstalling and restarting.This time to save time
in the beginning I'm not installing improved illych.

I started a new TOB game without IA.One character vs. Illesira and
she was ridiculously easy.When I did it with IA4.1 it reminded
more of a scene from a predetor movie with the addition of her 5
party members.

Edit 26/4:Been a bit busy.still got to install mod NPCs and IA
and start a new game.



Roy

This post has been edited by Roy: Jun 21 2007, 07:24 AM

[Arkain]

Mhm... did you try to "stun" some of the enemies? Implosion for example does a good job as a stunning spell and ignores magic resistance.

The main problem is: the Demon Lord has a very high AC (use The Answerer for this, if this isn't quite the option you should use Critical Strike on your fighter characters) and keeps summoning strong creatures. Maybe you shouldn't ignore them totally but don't spend all your time trying to kill them. You might want to use all slots for Stoneskin and PfMW, so you've got some time to actually do something without being harmed. Don't forget that you have scrolls of those spells (you do have some right? RIGHT? ) as well as wands etc. as tools for a easier battle. You could use one of those wands with Breach and Pierce Magic on them against the Death Lords, buffing themselves with SI:Divination and invisibility (iirc), for example. Or use the one you can buy from the smugglers which is charged with Ruby Ray of Reversal.
I don't know if it works but you could try using a Simulacrum as a distraction. Load it up with PfMW spells and scrolls and hope it isn't destroyed by a enemy's spell

It sounds as if you're always moving from one place to WK to start the battle. When you're already in ToB and have a save before forging Judgement Day my tip would be to load it. Then move to WK, teleport into your pocketplane and forge the sword. This way you can buff beforehand, set up a Contingency spell etc..

This post has been edited by Arkain: Jul 11 2007, 11:24 PM