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[critto]

Okay. Really, the mod is totally fun and pleasure, but in the name of all that sacred, next version should ease up on spiders a little bit.
I thought 2 drow ambushes were hard to beat with those annoying spiders being everywhere. Apparantly, I was mistaken.
Deeper underdark. Cave with an instant supply of whisper spiders (where they just keeping coming from nowhere). Really, how can I beat this thing? They dispel everything, they somehow draw characters from place to themselves, and sometimes they just kill chars instantly. Why is that? Why no info about the damage being done or save-throw being made (dwarf-kensai, instantly dead. huh?). And, finally, there are just TOO DAMN much of them, my characters can't handle them, even though I have a fighter-heavy party (vagrant, kensai, blade, berserker-cleric, sorc, thief/mage). I am doing buffs, of course, but they are being dispelled very soon and there is no point and time in refreshing them. Summons doesn't help much too (tried 5 hasted mordy swords). Tried magic (adwh, chain lightnings), but they are magic resistant, as it seems.
I am no great tactician, but how am I supposed to win that battle? :) Just keep reloading and hope for better save-throws and no instant-kills? I would be really glad to have some advices on that battle. This is the first one in the game which makes me feel annoyed, instead of being interested, having fun and searching for better tactics.

[critto]

Thanks for your comments, Kerkes!

1. I think I will try and take Cernd for this run. We'll see how it goes.

2. Yeah, I figured. I've made an assassin for my party, I only left Irenicus' dungeon and I already don't like him. I guess I'll just switch him with Valigar Or with f/t, for that matter. Valigar is cool but I prefer to have somebody with traps and locks skills, since using sorcerer for that stuff is just too annoying for me. Oh, is all that backstabbing forgeable stuff (grandfather of assassins, etc.) usable by f/t? It says 'usable by thief', does that mean 'single-class thief' or 'any thief'?

By the way, what's the opinion on paladins? Are they okay or that 'Enemy evil clerics will control undead and turn paladin' thing makes them less useful? I've made a cavalier as a 2-h weapon expert for my party, but this makes me wonder if I shouldn't have.

This post has been edited by critto: Mar 13 2009, 03:10 PM