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[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

[Marceror]

My strategy with this battle, similar to yours, was to get the death lord and elemental golem (+ any friends he summoned) out of the equation first.

After that the Demon Lord is who you need to bring down next. Just make sure you keep him vulnerable to damage, and keep the GWW and critical strikes up. Tons of superior healing potions should be available to all party members, and hopefully you have plenty of greater restorations (do NOT let your cleric get killed, and the improved cat figurine is nice too). Hopefully you've also got a few potions of barbarian essence (this is certainly a good time to use them) - in addition to the stoneskins, PFMWs and other spells that have already been recommended. Bring in the best summons you can (noble spider, Devas, etc).

If one of your party members is getting too much attention, run him/her out of the fight and try to kite some of the mariliths for a bit (and heal up with potions as you run). If I didn't mention, keep you cleric alive for greater restorations, I am now. And if I did, it's worth repeating!

Keep your damage output on the demon lord maximized. Use casters for summons and crowd control (dragon's breath is nice for knocking the mariliths back - thus buying you a few seconds to pound on the demon knight without too much opposition. Once the Demon lord is dead, just take out the marilith's one at a time, they are very challenging. Make sure the when you get their defenses down, that you damage them QUICKLY, and hopefully kill them before they're able to get them back up.

I spent the greater part of this battle attempting to take out all of the mariliths, because it's just a pain in the arse to get past their magical defenses.

Lot's of patience. Make sure you've got your game set to pause at the end of the round (easier to control the action that way), and just be patient!