Leveled for success, Suggested level for specific battles Options

[rbeverjr]

Hi,

I know that Raven has provided a generalized suggestion of quest order and that Sikret has begun a “walk-through” (at least he is offering some hints on how to overcome battles). I would like to know if I can switch that quest order some, but hate the trial-and-error of a bunch of reloading. I’m hoping that the play testers (and those who have already completed these quests) can offer a suggested average party level (6-member team) for some of the quests/battles. Assume that the team was intelligently chosen but that the player has skills that are only a little better than marginal for IA5. (That’s me. I’ve completed IA 4.2 once, almost completed SoA under 4.2 a second time, and dabbled with IA3 a bit. Most importantly, I typically only play after I am too mentally exhausted to work anymore.) The quests/battles are as follows:

Beastmaster
Lilacor
Slaver ship in slums
Slaver HQ in temple district
Toll keepers in sewers of temple district
Rakasha in sewers of temple district
Planar sphere
Planar prison
Shadow Dragon
Shadow Lord un Umar hills
Belm
Greater yuan-ti in the courtyard of De’arnis keep
Tor-gal
Twisted Rune
Judgment sword battle (not the prelude with Angurvadal)

Thanks for your help.

>>Feel free to let me know when you completed any or all of the quests. All input is appreciated.

This post has been edited by rbeverjr: Dec 11 2007, 08:07 PM

[Sikret]

Hi,

I know that Raven has provided a generalized suggestion of quest order and that Sikret has begun a “walk-through” (at least he is offering some hints on how to overcome battles). I would like to know if I can switch that quest order some, but hate the trial-and-error of a bunch of reloading. I’m hoping that the play testers (and those who have already completed these quests) can offer a suggested average party level (6-member team) for some of the quests/battles. Assume that the team was intelligently chosen but that the player has skills that are only a little better than marginal for IA5. (That’s me. I’ve completed IA 4.2 once, almost completed SoA under 4.2 a second time, and dabbled with IA3 a bit. Most importantly, I typically only play after I am too mentally exhausted to work anymore.) The quests/battles are as follows:

This is surely one of those questions Raven (and Dago) can answer much better than me; but I will try to give some hints. Some of them may be just wild guesses (as I have not tested all of them myself and should wait for testers' more accurate replies. I will mark those which are wild guesses with asterisks waiting for Raven's remarks):

Note to all: This is heavily spoilerish. I suggest that you don't read it if you are looking for playing with maximum realism and maximum challenge. Reading these spoilers will most probably ruin the fun of those battles:

SPOILER!

-Beastmaster (9-10)
-Lilacor (10-11)
-Slaver ship in slums (11-12)
-Slaver HQ in temple district (18-20)* Raven?
-Toll keepers in sewers of temple district (15-16)*
-Rakasha in sewers of temple district (11-13 with no cheese; doable with lower level parties if you want to play cheesily: hit and run)
- Planar sphere (11-13)
-Planar prison (12-14)
-Shadow Dragon (13-14)*
-Shadow Lord un Umar hills (chapter 6)*
-Belm (11-13)*
-Greater yuan-ti in the courtyard of De’arnis keep (9-10)
-Tor-gal (10-12)
-Twisted Rune (Right before going to Tree of Life; it's probably the hardest battle in SOA)*
-Judgment Day sword's final battle (I say TOB, but if you want to do it in SOA leave it for just before going to Tree of Life. The point is that you need to have already defeated very powerful foes before having the sword; hence, you will naturally have a very powerful party by that time)*

This post has been edited by Sikret: Feb 9 2008, 02:20 PM