Problem with Watcher's Keep? Options

[Aslyn]

Hey all,

I recently DLed the IA mod looking for a real challenge, and it's good fun, but I've started doing Watcher's Keep, and had this Fanatic Spirit pop up and steal the Bell needed to complete the ritual. So, I figure fine, I'll just kill it and retrieve the Bell. The problem is, I CAN'T. I'm not sure whether it's a tactical error on my part, or a bug, but I've got characters all in Epic Level, with Level 9 Mage spells and Maxed out Cleric spells throwing everything they've got at this thing - magical weapons, spells. I can't even scratch it.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

Regards,

Aslyn

[Ymarsakar]

Aslyn, turn on the feedback options for your game that include spell states and actions. This lets you know what protections are auto cast on mages.

CTRL-Q will allow you to see a monster's invulnerabilities, thaco, ac, etc. Very useful if you are stuck. You will need to reload your game afterwards, of course.

Also you should use Raven's quest order stickie or Sikret's IA 5.0 walkthrough. Doing the quests in a particular order is very important for getting the least amount of frustration out of IA. Once you hit certain battles, it is far wiser to simply let it go and go somewhere. As opposed to other tactical mods that you might be able to get past hard battles because of luck or superior items, IA is too well planned for that unless you import mega powerful items.

I play tactical mods because spamming comet or dragon's breath wasn't fun anymore since I it felt a waste to have so many spells and never use them. My custom modified scripts can already cast any number of spells automatically, so just having them auto cast spells for me doesn't feel like me using up the entire spellbook of a sorcerer, for example.



This post has been edited by Ymarsakar: Apr 28 2008, 03:25 PM