Toughest Battles Options

[rbeverjr]

Toughest Battles
1. The Epic Divine Battle is hardest without question.
2. The battle to keep the Judgment Day sword is the second hardest. I'm pretty sure of that one too.
3. I think Twisted Rune comes next.
4. Not sure, perhaps the regular finale in ToB?

Now any battle can be hard when you face it without sufficient preparation, gear, or levels - so those don't belong in the list.
I think the Chaos encounter is silly. I'd never include it in my list, but others may.
So, I'm interested in what other people think are the toughest battles of IA?

[bulian]

The best thing about IA is that so many encounters are very well done and the game is challenging throughout! Even Suna Seni is quite difficult. Personally, I always struggle with these 3 fights.

1. Ancient dragon without necromancer (unsilencable) PC
2. Githyanki in WK level 4 (pre-TOB, I almost always complete WK before TOB)
3, Dracolich

Improved Demo is probably still the toughest encounter in the game since this board has been quite good about not posting detailed strategies. I don't know how many people have actually beaten it, but its not many.

I believe EDE was reworked for v6.4 but I've yet to get that far. I recently started a game though so hopefully I'll get there before too long.

[HTRT]

The best thing about IA is that so many encounters are very well done and the game is challenging throughout! Even Suna Seni is quite difficult. Personally, I always struggle with these 3 fights.

1. Ancient dragon without necromancer (unsilencable) PC
2. Githyanki in WK level 4 (pre-TOB, I almost always complete WK before TOB)
3, Dracolich

Improved Demo is probably still the toughest encounter in the game since this board has been quite good about not posting detailed strategies. I don't know how many people have actually beaten it, but its not many.

I believe EDE was reworked for v6.4 but I've yet to get that far. I recently started a game though so hopefully I'll get there before too long.

Yeah ancient dragon without necromancer PC is hard. Cernd can help a lot if the fight is done later with vagrant protagonist. I don't know if it's the right place to mention it, but there is a cheap way to do that fight for example with vagrant protagonist. I discovered it by accident few years ago :

If ancient dragon manages to greater command protagonist and other party members are away, his behaviour will be to stick next to the asleep PC and do absolutely nothing because in his script there's nothing that says just at least attack the guy next to him even if hes asleep if all else fails.