Insect Plague: Will MR stop it? Options

[Klorox]

I'm thinking about using Insect Plague as one (of a few) weapons against Drizzt for a solo Berserker 5> Druid in BG1 Tutu. It might be helpful, if it'll work.

[Tervadh]

Insect Plague is subject to magic resistance. One of the ways to take him is to use summonees, even Animate Dead. There are even cheesier ways, if you really want to know.

[Klorox]

I've heard of blocking him in with 4 dismissed party members. I don't think that'll work in Tutu though, since I think BGII let characters "push through" people.

I won't do that anyway. It is too cheesey, and since I'm soloing, I will not add any party members.

[Tervadh]

I've done it in Tutu. In fact, I think I was the one who told you about it way back when on the Bioware forums . And yeah, it was cheesy. But it worked.

If you're going to solo, you might consider a dwarven fighter/cleric or 1/2E cleric/ranger. Get the boots of speed if you can and swarm him with Animate Dead, even while he's still fighting gnolls if you want. Then run around the lake to the island and snipe the crap out of him with a ranged weapon. Doesn't matter what kind since you can only hit him with a critical. In Tutu, he might eventually pathfind his way to you since the default behaviour is better than BG1 (you can decrease this in your config but that's even cheesier than than the previously mentioned methods).

[Klorox]

It might have been you on the Bioware forums. Haha, small world, right?

I wonder if the spell Web can affect him(?).

BTW, if I'm playing a Dwarven Fighter/Cleric, I really don't have much of a need to kill him.

Solo characters have more than enough cash, more than enough XP, I wouldn't be able to use his weapons, and Full Plate Mail with a Ring of Protection is better than Drizzt's armor.



This post has been edited by Klorox: Nov 29 2007, 02:11 PM

[Tervadh]

BTW, if I'm playing a Dwarven Fighter/Cleric, I really don't have much of a need to kill him.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. Of course, you could let him use the scimitars with a mod like Ashes of Embers or Level 1 NPCs. But that is perhaps just a wee bit to powergamey.

A bard or F/T or F/M/T is a good solo character too.

[WizWom]

the old trick was to set the pathfinding real low, get him hostile, and shoot arrows at him from the island.