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[Spike]

A little question to Captain Haegan.

Cernd used the physical mirror spell and Haegan attacked him with the right group management.
The throwing axes weren't reflected immediately, but after a short time Haegan received the cumulative damage
for several axes and died instantly. I like it, but is it the intended behavior of the spell?

By the way, i cant beat TorGal. Damn. I never get him below badly injured. It takes too long and my buffs fade away. Then the usually stuff happens.
Storm of Vengeance, Hold Spell, Greater Commands and Strength Drain. Hmm, I need different tactics.

This post has been edited by Spike: Dec 5 2007, 08:27 AM

[Sikret]

SPOILER!

Casting Remove Magic earlier may sound a good tactics for the dragon under certain conditions and scenarios (such as the conditions of the way you did the battle), but it's not always a good choice under every scenario. If the dragon hurries to cast Remove Magic too early, the player can send one single character forth to take it. It's actually the difference between a human mind and a machine. The human mind can find a workaround most of the times. I have tried to give him a general intelligent tactics to follow. Not to mention that your method will not work so easily against the more powerful dragons of the game. They will eventually cast their Remove Magic spells intime and before taking much damage (but still, you will eventually defeat them ) and I'm sure it hasn't worked against the Shadow dragon the very first time and with no reloads (otherwise, you wouldn't know that he has a heal spell ). In addition to having a human mind, you have another important advantage to those creatures in the game: You can reload the game, but they can't!

In general, my own experience and tests have proven to me that enemies are much more effective if they do not hurry to cast Remove Magic too early. It's much better to remove the characters buffs in the heat of the fight (rather than at the beginning), because then they will have much more issues to worry about (such as wounds as well). Of course, the delay is not the same for every enemy. The delay is not always the same even for the same enemy (which makes meta-gaming very difficult)

@Spike

No, Breach doesn't bring down Spell Turning.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Dec 13 2007, 06:59 AM