Journal 7.0, diary of Aria Joyce, an auramaster, Updated: Final notes Options

[pekkae]

Hi

Welcome.

Yet another journal, as the weather is terrible and I have some time (well, a few days)

The rules:

- Auramaster PC
- Max HP's for NPC's
- No non protagonist related forging (though if auramaster doesn't get amazing equipment, we will most likely forge Vagrant's stuffs)
- One custom NPC (a fighter mage multiclass, we'll decide later which one)
- Rotating crew in the beginning
- We are looking to completely dominate and blast away all encounters
- Looking to try the new stuffs
- Tomes from bg1
- Starting exp from BGTotSC
- Insane all the way (well, except two early game liches & final part of the final )

Edit:And we have the following tweaks

- Multiple strongholds
- Simplified Economy
- A few class changes from IAtweaks
- Tower of Deception (we did it in chapter 6)

Let's see how far we can go.

This post has been edited by pekkae: Oct 14 2024, 07:39 PM

[pekkae]

PArt 3

Upgrade the flask. Hmh. Well, this is new.. We choose lasting one and take option #1. We are in dire need of it. Decide the rest later. (edit: OOOOOH!!!! THIS GIVES US IDEAS!!!!!!)
Forge a ring +3, turn it into a ring +4 and forge 2-3 rings +2. Monies at 100k.
Chat with Vanya, to trigger the next Q
opt for the easy stuffs next, so rest of Suldanesselar before next Vanya + Bard stronghold activates.
Harpist House, meh. Auramaster makes Raksashas explode and Sibel pretty much *soloes* the GeG. This is something that no-other character has been able to do and believe me we have tried.
Black Dragon, Summon an army. Double regen on Swanmay Queen. Draw hardwood golems out of Dragon's sights where they get attacked by our army and we whack away. 2 of them decide it's good idea to whack the queen, who, with double-regen can handle even two hardwood golems. Send a summons to keep Drake busy. It takes a little bit to whack golems but once they are done it's just a few breaches / dispels away (both mages get silenced) away. Once the dragon is badly hurt Auramaster just finishes it, as she is tremendously effective here yet again.
Finish Suldanesselar, so get items, summon guardians open the portal in the temple
We have no idea where "the protector" is? Hmh.

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Next is either Buried Ambitions next part (I guess it's the rust dragon fight), Green Wyrm + Supreme Golem or finish rest of quests in Athlkathla. We are missing numerous items though, including periapt of proof vs poison, the protector and mage robe of fire resistance. Could anybody point out those locations? Can they be in WK ... ?
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I gave a shot to the next BA fight here, but it looks like we need a few more levels. Especially Vagrant is in "comprehensive" trouble here all the time. Also as we don't know what's coming we make numerous big mistakes, like the F/I starting the fight with black blade of disaster. I'm looking to up a few levels (2x hardiness more) and the Vagrants AC to -24 (+ the miniscule minuses it gets), so up the helmet, belt and get a few proper weapons for him. After that, it's "showtime" with Rust Dragon (I guess).

Green Wyrm, debuff & lr via triggers and auramaster pretty much soloes. Periapt of proof vs poison here. Such a nice fight this one.

Supreme Golem, this is one of the most difficult fights in the game, if not *the most difficult*. So we prebuff & enter. Sibel takes purge magic, a few swords get CC'd (they end up being non-factors). Sibel tanks SG throughout, Valygar tanks elementals throughout. Auramaster is there as Sibel's backup and F/I, Jaheira + Nalia have themselves a golem whacking fiesta. This was fun. Haha. At some point we get a little bit confused which elemental is which, so we don't get all of the spawns. We get maybe 25-30 coins/gems here. Not that much tactics required, pure simple whack away. This used to be immensily difficult requiring enormous attention to detail to master even 1-2 elementals, but here we are happily and carelessly whacking away. Once all elementals are done, we summon an army, buff and whack the SG in between dispels. It takes about 2-2,5 rounds I think.

(edit: we play it through again and we get 35 helpers + elementals!. Ooh!!!!) Crew between 7,4Mexo - 7,9Mexp.

3 x Elemental Golems at Machine of lum the mad - levell. Sibel soloes. Once spaws are out (well, there 2 coin or so left) the rest of the crew walks in and we anhilate. This is ridiculously easy. They had no chance. It wasn't even close.

Clear the rest of the level, besides Supreme Leader + past the oils. Visit Athkatla for bard + Vanya
Turnish Encounter at Bard stronghold
Viper Queen, it doesn't stand even a remote chance vs us.
Next bard - stronghold thing (rehersal)
take deck of many things here, wisdom for PC and HP's for Valygar, since we forgot before (Valygar now has 232 HP)

Supreme Leader. Prebuff, blast through, they have "a snowballs chance in hell". This is so much fun. I think is a little bit tougher now(?), and nice that the githyaki now function a it more properly. Anyway, they are in the wrong league. Leave the blacksmith forging gem golems live and get 8-10 gems(?) out of it. In the end we always triple(?) x regen a Swanmay Queen and IH it. She tanks the leader until almost the end. Then we just move in and whack. It was a little bit tough.

Demilich, well Auramaster dominates

Saladrex, well, Aurmaster dominates (once we get magic resistance down auramaster soloes prettymuch here again. Dragons are so nice when we are completely overblownly effective( Forgot Saladrexes CC. Doesn't make a diffenrece. Well, F/I gets whacked but we raise her and off we go.

Machine of Lum the Mad; cha for PC, Con for Nalia, Wis for F/I, Int for Nalia, Dex for Jaheira, STR for Sibel
Finish the bard stronghold

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Sell stuffs to Joluv and we are at 380k in monies, forge GoLM -> GoMM, Volcano -> Axe of Gleaming Lava and HoB to the +2 version and we're pretty much out of monies. Need to upgrade Phosphorous and we need 2x Rop +2 and 1x Rop +3. I'm glad I didn't sell those rings +1. Vagrant is coming together quite nicely.

Forging list:

Ring +2
Ring +2
Ring +3
Mage Robe of Elemental Resistances
Phosphorous (the new one)
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Whack some Cowled Wizards, they didn't take notice before. Well, good that they do now.
No demon messenger (for we have Angurvaldl or what's it's name....). So I think this means no judgement day fite. That's too bad. I was much looking to harvesting those golems

Undead Ambush at final seal (sl+gl+skellys), auramaster destroys liches & the crew move in to destroy skellys

Elemental Ambush (4x eg + 2 bones), Sibel soloes the initial batch while rest whack spawns (this is rather easy).

Finish globes, besides 2 golem ones and the last undead one, as we need different sets of spells for those ones. The 2x ice golem + elemental should be a breeze through. But the geg + ulta, I think we need to ponder a little about that. PC + Sibel + Jaheira make levels here.

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Maybe back to Athkatla soon, do we have enough to forge Phosphorous? And where can we get additional rings +1. Sell stuff, scrape the bags of holding for anything sellable worth of money and we come back with 100k, only to find out that we don't have an additional piece of amber for forging.

Well, I do know a place but it looks like the BA battle needs to still be postponed just a little. And we'd need about 60k more to forge a few rings +2, and we need an additional +2 one as well (we're out of rings +1, or we have 6)

List of fights left (in SoA):(as a note for myself)

Orcus
Zallanora
BA - finale
A few bigger fights in WK
Suldanesselar tree of life things
Hell
+ We could whack thieves etc. in Athkatla. Hmh.

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Do imp's quest here

Ancient Dragon Well, since we have an auramaster, debuffing/dispelling isn't a problem. Buffed Sibel takes initial silence and the minions and we leave her whacking away. Well, Nalia drops the Efreeti to get the ring. Summon, buff summons and timing is the key. In the end Dragon is out ot PFMW's (Jaheira dispelled 1, PC maybe 4-5 and both mages 1, not sure how many it has). Once it's badly hurt Auramaster puts it out of it's misery via dropping her entire spellbook on the Wyrm. While Sibel has on her own, without any help, whacked both elite Nishruu and Salamander Prince. Haha. Muchos loot here. I'm not sure if the elite nishruu works as Sibel has all of her spells left. Isn't it supposed to remove memorized spells ... ? Learn here that Jaheira with her ritual isn't protected from silence. I think this is quite good development all things considered.

Do the spirit key- thing

Globe machine vampires, auramaster dominates, well, comprehensively. Nalia starts at -3 and Auramaster at -5, once Vampires appear they both IA. Auramaster has almost killed all of the vampires (with 10x chain lightning mostly) before Nalia gets IA & dragon's breath away. I think Sibel got a vampire or two and Valygar might have gotten one.

Globe machine liches, auramaster just dominates, well, comprehensively yet again. So start, liches appear, IA, debuff, dispel, whack first one with implosions & nature's fist, then move on to bolts of the grove, while Vagrant + Nalia + F/I whack. The last lich manages to pfmw itself so Auramaster immediately dispels it. V+N+F/I whack away (as they have non dispellable protections). Valygar especially nice here with 75% non dispellable magic damage resistance & premanent uber fire resistance. Nalia with TT has 350 HP's, haha.

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Monies at 250k. Need one piece of amber and we're good. Golems x 2, "nasty orcsies" + final seal fights and Demo left in WK. We have the required rings now as well as monies. Need one piece of Amber more. So I guess it's the golems next. It feels a little bit silly, but after the golems are done we might just as well do Demo here. We can already dominate Demo + entourage, they won't have a chance unless they have grown in power with v.7.0 changes, enormously.
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2x ice golem + elemental, whack ice golems + sibel soloes elemental + spawns almost by herself
ultra + geg, get 13 (not sure if there was more?) spawns inclusing 7 amber pieces. now we have 8 all in all, so should we upgrade stuffs or should we upgrade CF? sibel tanks while whacking the geg, lure spaws to outside where the creq has a golem whacking fiesta. mass cure tremendous here again as ambers can't do anything vs. aura clensing auramaster with 15x mass cure. we can even keep summons alive, haha!

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forge phosphorous +5 , noble staff of earth, ring +2 , improved boots of the ranger lord
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Nasty Orcsies, no problem. Keep up protection (we have so many), Vagrant takes maybe 10 potions of regen. 2-3 potions of regen for Nalia + F/I. High level summons to help out Auramaster, the rest anhilate. It wasn't particularly close, even though towards the end we were running out of Improved Hastes (Nalia had 1 left, F/I had 1). Having 5 capable fighters + uber summons is really effective here. Valygar the vagrant wasn't in any danger at any point. Ditto for the rest of the crew. Maxing H2H was tremendous yet again here.

whack some cowled wizards
rest of the final seal fights, get 10 SGL's from azamantis (or what's it's name).

Draco Ferrous Well, we've blown past levels for this we are at 9mexp or so. Prebuff, summons, regens and whack a few waves - we just use CS, Noble Spider, a few trolls and a few yuan-ti's here. And 1-2 swords. We would still have greater djinn, archdeva, planetar, next level berserker warrior. smilodons, greater elementals + something else, which I forgot. Sibel is great here as well. Get the scales + hide, which we can use for forging armour etc. Looking to power up again. Great fight!

Orcus We wait intul no more skellys. Then whack it, just as it passes we get a vampire spawn. How nice. Everyone got silenced but Sibel is just overly dominant here yet again.

whack some more cowled wizards (x2), forge mage robe of elemental resistances, finally. Maybe it's time to do something about the demogorgon situation?

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Not much remaining before ToB. As I should have new content available in ToB it might be time to re-think where to do demo. We can already dispel Rozvankee, as Sibel is level 38 (and PC level 37), so we could anhilate it "no problem" (sort of, I think). Even though PC/Sibel are running out of room to improve, our mages+Vagrant still have a lot of room to grow. And as always, the easiest way to make sure we can survive & anhilate the following (new) encounters is to level up as much as possible. So I think we are going to do that, for that, we need 3 x Vargouille spawns, which we'll get from ToB Rozvankee. Plus those Vargoillues will mean Sibel has something to hit all the time. So maybe whack Yaga-Shura, so we'll get the "demo-gorgon tanking hammer", though I'm not sure if we'll need it. So do demo, instead of getting 1x vargouille we should get 15 vargouilles + 20 mariliths, or so.

Zallanora
Demo
Irenicus + Hell
+ we can whack shadow thieves etc.
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Zallanora RRoR (x6 or so) + instant dispel, whack them with sunfires.

Irenicus So no more turning golems into chickens. That's fine, summon an army & the hardwood golems can't really hurt us. We manage to dodge one remove magic (those are bad for our IH level is very low because it's cast by F/I), auramaster dominates, yet again. Auramaster is so insanely effective it makes this just a breeze through, haha.

Hell Get +1 Wisdom and Auramaster gets additional spell slots! She now has 17 level 6 and 13 level 7 spells. The rest of the rewards are quite good as well! Milk all spawns and once slayer turns we power attack to stun and Irenicus's script brakes down and we're stuck, he just stays badly hurt. Well, we consider the fight won and move on & console in the exp etc. It was nice, 5 gems + 1 coin. That's a decent amount of cash as well!

Next to ToB!

This post has been edited by pekkae: Sep 23 2024, 09:03 PM