My experiences with IA and Auramaster Options

[Shadan]

Well I have played 2 days with IA now. It seems very cool to me, just I feel it is a bit hard yet. My party still weak for most of the IA fights.
Here is my party: gnome fighter/illusionist lvl 9/10, Keldorn lvl 9, Haer'Dalis lvl 11, Anomen lvl 10 clr, Cernd lvl 12, Nalia lvl 11 mage.
My PC is very good now with +3axes and Hill Giant Str. belt.
Keldorn: True Seeing very usefull, but I haven't seen any success with Dispel Magic in IA battles... And he is very weak even with -5 AC in hard battles...
Haer'Dalis: When he is buffed, he is very good tank. He isn't very good damagedealer yet. I found his Offensive Spin + Melf's Minute Meteor bugged, since when he press O. Spin, his attack lowered to 2 with meteors. I haven't tried more time yet btw. Without buffs he is like a chicken in fights. I like him.
Anomen: Very good and strong char with his buffs, melee etc. DUHM overshine even Holy Power and Champion's Strength, and you have alot lvl 2 free slots...
Nalia: I dislike her low thieving skills, when I cannot disram a trap or open a lock. But he will do all what a mage should do in IA.
Cernd: He is very good in this early stage. He was at least 2 lvl higher than rest of the party, and it helped a lot.
His spells:
lvl 1: Doom very good spell. Burning Hands: Not the best, but good to kill trolls.
lvl 2: There are not really good spells here. Invis: good only for scouting. Mirror Image, Barskin: good defensive spells, but Cernd usually sit at back, so he don't need this too many times. Charm: sometimes good to get cannon fodder for a short time.
lvl 3: Flame Arrow shines here. Summon Insects: Not so usefull now with nerfed save. Stregnth of One: I used this often till I found a strength belt. Usually I mem FA all but 1 Dispel Magic.
lvl 4: Call Woodland being: not so good as was berfore. Defensive Harmony: good, but he lefts this for Anomen. Greater Malison and Emotion shine here. I like them. Fire Shild useless on him.
lvl 5: Sadly Chaotic Command demands lower usefullnes of other spells here. Iron Skin, Insect Plague good when don't need CC. Also Prot from Acid will be good in certain fights.
lvl 6: Unleash Enetgy is great. Conjure Animlas would be good but most of the enemies Death Spell all summoned ones immiditaely... Conjure Fire Elem would be good also. I use Heal also. Chain Lightning and Death Spell is unused atm.
All in all, Cernd is very good char yet, especially cause he can cast high lvl spells which aren't blocked by (Minor) Globe of Inv. and with a lot of FLame Arrows he can deal good damage also.

[Shadan]

Thanks for answers. Surely I didnt put into any container. I think I will clua when I want to use up it.
Another problem is popped up. Few days ago I cleared 1st lvl of WK, but I was not able to kill Spider Queen. So I skipped her, and didnt even trigger her. Now I went back, triggered her, and I cannot damage with any weapon. I tried all type and I have one with +5 enchantment (Haerdalis imporved sword) also. I always got "immune" message. I tried Breach on her, Lower Resistance also, but nothing happened, not any single row in text window. I was able to damage her with Fire Shield, Sunfire, Vampiric Touch, but those damage was too little, so she regened up in 1 round. Tried several other spells, like Slow, Malison, but her MR stopped them. So I am clueless now.
Another interesting thing: I cleared all shelves, containers there. And after I triggered the Queen, I found many books in the empty chests, shelves etc. I searched in hope to find any clue in them, but was not successfull.
If I trigger her, I cannot leave this level neither to 2nd lvl nor to outside. Even if I give spider figurine to her, and she Dim Door out, I am not able to leave 1st lvl.
I would be happy if anyone could mail any clue to me.

This post has been edited by shadan: Aug 18 2007, 09:07 AM

[Raven]

Thanks for answers. Surely I didnt put into any container. I think I will clua when I want to use up it.
Another problem is popped up. Few days ago I cleared 1st lvl of WK, but I was not able to kill Spider Queen. So I skipped her, and didnt even trigger her. Now I went back, triggered her, and I cannot damage with any weapon. I tried all type and I have one with +5 enchantment (Haerdalis imporved sword) also. I always got "immune" message. I tried Breach on her, Lower Resistance also, but nothing happened, not any single row in text window. I was able to damage her with Fire Shield, Sunfire, Vampiric Touch, but those damage was too little, so she regened up in 1 round. Tried several other spells, like Slow, Malison, but her MR stopped them. So I am clueless now.

Hmmm, +5 weapons should hit with no problem. Of course she has high physical resistances but she should take at least a little damage. I believe even +4 weapons are effective. I can't think of any reason why Haer'dalis' improved sword shouldn't work.

Breach and Lower Resistance are probably ineffective because she is immune to spells of 5th level and lower. I don't know this for certain but it would explain why no message is shown (since sometimes 'spell ineffective' does not appear in the dialogue box each time).

I've beaten the Spider Queen twice and both times I did it just with melee, no spells. Of course this IS a very hard fight (much harder than the stuff in WK levels 2 and 3 IMO).

Another interesting thing: I cleared all shelves, containers there. And after I triggered the Queen, I found many books in the empty chests, shelves etc. I searched in hope to find any clue in them, but was not successfull.
If I trigger her, I cannot leave this level neither to 2nd lvl nor to outside. Even if I give spider figurine to her, and she Dim Door out, I am not able to leave 1st lvl.
I would be happy if anyone could mail any clue to me.

If you give her the figurine you should be able to leave. I can only assume this is maybe a bug. I don't know since I never gave her the figurine. Hopefully Sikret can help.


EDIT: Sorry Sikret looks like you beat me to it this time

This post has been edited by Raven: Aug 18 2007, 12:20 PM