Hello,

Instead of writing, will do journal in videos. One video will be published every day. I will post links here before hand for all videos, but they won't be visible before publish.

Party:
Necromancer
Dwarven Defender
Riskbearer
Riskbearer
Riskbearer
Sible -> dual to cleric

Link to playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ciBd66Fqo...7UYZ0epcuWnuyHx

[Part 1] Intro
[Part2] Irenicus Dungeon
[Part3] Ireninus Dungeon
[Part 4] Sibel and Circus
[Part 5] Slums and Copper Coronet
[Part 6] Suna Seni
[Part 7] Graveyard
[Part 8] Docks
[Part 9] Thieves Guild
[Part 10] Harper Hold
[Part 11] Rayic Gethras
[Part 12] Mae'Var
[Part 13] Bridge District
[Part 14] Rejiek Hidesman
[Part 15] Anarg
[Part 16] Windspear Hills
[Part 17] Umar Hills
[Part 18] Trademeet
[Part 19] Druid Grove
[Part 20] Faldorn
[Part 21] Nilthiri
[Part 22] Adratha
[Part 23] Founder Of Trademeet
[Part 24] Crypt King & Queen
[Part 25] Tirdir&Roger
[Part 26] Copper Coronet Beastmaster
[Part 27] Sir Sarles
[Part 28] Tiris
[Part 29] Hexxat
[Part 30] Thieves Stronghold
[Part 31] De'Arnise Keep
[Part 32] Keep Viper
[Part 33] Glaicus&Greater Yuan ti
[Part 34] Lilarcor
[Part 35] Mencar Pebblecrusher
[Part 36] Pirates Hideout
[Part 37] Tarnor the Hatchetman
[Part 38] Founder of Trademeet
[Part 39] Graveyard Crypts
[Part 40] Watcher's Keep
[Part 41] Watcher's Keep
[Part 42] Shopping
[Part 43] Temple Ruins & Shadow Jailor
[Part 44] Shade Lich
[Part 45] Another Shade Lich
[Part 46] Shadow Dragon
[Part 47] Shade Lord
[Part 48] Ghost Spider
[Part 49] Ruhk
[Part 50] Windspear Hills Dungeon
[Part 51] Samia Party
[Part 52] Werewolfs
[Part 53] Conster
[Part 54] Borinall
[Part 55] Dorn Questline
[Part 56] Ranger Stronhold
[Part 57] Unseeing Eye
[Part 58] Cleric Stronhold
[Part 59] Torgal
[Part 60] Arcanis Village
[Part 61] Fanatic Spirits
[Part 62] Watcher's Keep Level2
[Part 63] Pai'na
[Part 64] Aran Quests
[Part 65] Bodhi's Lair
[Part 66] Mekrath's Lair
[Part 67] Ashideena
[Part 68] Screaming Statue
[Part 69] Chaos
[Part 70] Cernd Questline
[Part 71] Edwin Questline
[Part 72] Korgan Questline
[Part 73] Jan Questline
[Part 74] Anomen Questline
[Part 75] Keldorn Questline
[Part 76] Mazzy Questline
[Part 77] Rasaad Questline
[Part 78] Neera Questline
[Part 79] Limited Wish Spell and Quest
[Part 80] Neera Questline Continue
[Part 81] Jaheira Questline
[Part 82] Fighter Stronhold
[Part 83] Lich Fights
[Part 84] Slaver Ship
[Part 85] Zallanora
[Part 86] Paladin Stronghold
[Part 87] Watcher's Keep Level2
[Part 88] Hybrid Tiefling
[Part 89] Demon Knights
[Part 90] Tahazzar and Ka'rashur
[Part 91] Demon Wraith
[Part 92] Deck of Many Things
[Part 93] Planar Sphere
[Part 94] Mage Stronhold
[Part 95] Squirreled Away Part1
[Part 96] Planar Prison
[Part 97] Bard Stronghold
[Part 98] Wind Master
[Part 99] Firkraag
[Part 100] Umar Witch
[Part 101] Theshal
[Part 102] Rune Assassins Hideout Try1
[Part 103] Troll Mound
[Part 104] Kangaxx
[Part 105] Spider Queen
[Part 106] Guarded Compound
[Part 107] Rune Assassins Hideout Try2
[Part 108] Mystery of Shimmering Lights
[Part 109] Viper Queen
[Part 110] Illithid Hideout
[Part 111] Ancient Mage
[Part 112] Ancient Lich
[Part 113] Greater Elemental Golem
[Part 114] Orcus
[Part 115] Ice Golem & Elemental Golem
[Part 116] Brynnlaw
[Part 117] Full Spellhold
[Part 118] Sahuagin City
[Part 119] Underdark
[Part 120] Kua Toan Caves
[Part 121] Elder Orb Caves
[Part 122] Ancient Golem
[Part 123] Dracolich
[Part 124] Master Brain
[Part 125] Ust Natha
[Part 126] Limak
[Part 127] Kruin
[Part 128] Meeting Virtus
[Part 129] Amber Golem Invasion
[Part 130] Squirreled Away Part2
[Part 131] Chapter6 Minor Encounters
[Part 132] Squirreled Away Part3
[Part 133] Pasha Mahmoud
[Part 134] Ancient Priest
[Part 135] Story of Old One
[Part 136] Bodhi
[Part 137] Twisted Rune
[Part 138] Grandfather of Rune Assassins
[Part 139] Green Wyrm
[Part 140] Supreme Golem
[Part 141] Watcher's Keep Level4
[Part 142] Supreme Leader
[Part 143] Saladrex
[Part 144] Demilich
[Part 145] Garock & Rock
[Part 146] Ancient Dragon
[Part 147] Orc Horde (222 Orcs)
[Part 148] Globe Machine
[Part 149] Final Seal
[Part 150] Suldanessellar
[Part 151] Black Dragon
[Part 152] Suldanessellar
[Part 153] Morid Quests
[Part 154] Reginald Request
[Part 155] Andrias Amberville
[Part 156] The Good, The Bad and Ugly
[Part 157] Demon Lord
[Part 158] Judgement Day Demon Prince
[Part 159] Demogorgon
[Part 160] Jon Irenicus
[Part 161] SOA Final
[Part 162] Illasera
[Part 163] Gromnir
[Part 164] Yaga Shura's Keep & Temple
[Part 165] Nyalee and Skeleton Horde
[Part 166] Yaga Shura
[Part 167] Oasis
[Part 168] Lawrance Amberville
[Part 169] Draconis
[Part 170] Abazigal
[Part 171] Sendai Enclave
[Part 172] Epic Divine Encounter
[Part 173] Melissan

Good luck! I will be waiting for more videos

Just one thing, I think you need 18 int and 18 wisdom from the start to have 100% chance to forge memory of the apprenti. Since you start with 16/18 you might have bad luck with that. But don't worry, if you're OK with that, you can always set proper variable values through the console.

Thanks, Luck will be needed and persistence. Did not knew that MoA crafting chance 18I 18W, but if unlucky, will manually fix issue.

Great!

Good luck! Your planned party seems well balanced and very powerful. Korganwill be great, all versions (DD, Barbie, Berserker) are really powerful. Barbarian with the Sibel introduced items is an extreme late game tank I think.

No Korgan on this run, I used it on my other Auramaster one.

Alright.

98 is pretty high roll, congrats! Highest I've ever hard is 96, I think - haha!

At least for my style of play, I'd definitely consider including more diversity in the group - this makes the encounters & fights much easier, for me at least. Sibel and Jaheira make a really good duo that can dish out a lot of damage and really good tanking + casting capabilities.

Irenicus Dungeon [Part2] First part of dungeon, Library Keeper, Bodyguard.

[Part3] Irenicus Dungeon, second part of dungeon lesser elemetals (fire, air, earth)

[Part 4] Sibel and Circus Recruiting Sibel, dual to cleric, circus quest

[Part 5] Slums and Copper Coronet Early quests and looting, nothing interesthing

There is some very tricky coding related to MoA crafting and the robe drop. The best thing to do would be to (temporarily) adjust your stats to 18I and 18W prior to entering the planar sphere until you forge the robe.

Answering here not to bloat suggestion channel with no suggestions. Yes I managed to beat, but all the odds were against me. I lacked high level spells (PfME) and no contigencies/spell triggers, but lot of micromanagement, drinking lot of potions and accurate character placement and due to the difficulty I use "normal". I don´t think I could have done it in core, difference between normal and core is huge (could tank certain spells). It was really nice fight, but it is not comparable to any core runs. Video comes later when I am cathing up on my editing.

[Part 6]Suna Seni

[Part 7] Graveyard Minor early game looting in graveyard

[Part 8] Docks Killing 3 minotaurs and minor looting in docks, Crazy Celvan dialog with Sibel

[Part 9] Thieves Guild Proceeding main questline, meeting Aran Linvail, save Renfeld

[Part 10] Harper Hold Getting inside Harper Hold (Prebek), Killing Harpers Guardians and fetched Amulet of Talos for Mae'Var

Haha! Very cool! Congrats!

You are going to post a video about it? Looking forward to it!

Ye video comes later when my editing videos catch up. So far my hardest fight has been zallanora. Only thing left to do pre spellhold are very hard fights and doing bit exploring In watchers keep lvl3.

75% damage or not, it's very impressive! In my current playthrough I barely defeated the first group of Golems in Firkraag's dungeon with a party of +-12 level and improved Ray of Fragmentation so congratulations on your achievements!

[Part 11] Rayic Gethras Killing Rayic Gethras.

Question about Supreme Golem, only that is blocking me to get lower level on this current run. What is requirement of it letting me throw (enough levels? chp?) or should I just kill it instead (Propably cannot wihtout HLAs)? It will spawn nice amount of elemental golems, so pospone the fight and fight later for some nice way to by milking those might be useful.

I don't know about exp levels but I maxed out the fight on my latest run. Maxxed out Sibel can tank it & while the rest max out spawns - even on insane - but I did it in chapter 6 (or 7) or so.

[Part 12] Mae'Var Killing Mae'Var

[Part 13] Bridge District Orog encounter, Looting Bridge District

[Part 14] Rejiek Hidesman Reijiek basement fight

[Part 15] Anarg Fallen Palandin Quest, still quite a lot to do these easy early game content until can reach to harder fights.

Love the feeling on long fights when it get so close to victory. Fight lasted 55minutes and last enemy is 1 hit away from dying and I lose (GEG)

Haha. I always hated that ... Espcially if it's not a setup where I'm just punching through.

[Part 16] Windspear Hills Windspear Hills outskirts clearing, returning nuts from dryads to dryad

[Part 17] Umar Hills Making Quests in Umar Hills

[Part 18] Trademeet Tackle animals, Taking quests, Loot containers. These video journals going very slow pace, on my actual run I am right at prespellhold, just trying to do Pasha and Twisted Rune party before taking my leave. Been smashing very hard encounters very easily on first tries and been milking all the spawns.

Why didn't you protect PC with skins?

Stun effect can be also countered with free action (If my memory serves me right), so probably one could just cast FA on a cleric, who has remove paralysis memorized. That way the one character that can remove paralysis is protected from the stun and thus you have a way out.

I think I did not have stoneskin spell yet or if did, I was not paying too much attention on these early fights.

[Part 19] Druid Grove Clearing big part of Druid Grove

[Part 20] Faldorn Milking spore colonies and dealing with Faldorn

[Part 21] Nilthiri Fight against Troll Shaman Nilthiri (Druids Stronhold first quest)

[Part 22] Adratha Fight with Adratha.
[Part 23] Founder Of Trademeet First attempt to win Founder of Trademeet (fail) on level 9 characters.

My actual run pretty close finishing SOA, today milked out supreme golem, beat supreme leader, dragon and demilich.

[Part 24] Crypt King & Queen Fighting Crypt King and Queen

Reached Demogorgon first time ever, very interesting fight it seems, would need lot of learning and carefull planning probably. Question is that is that encounter harder if I dont do it in SOA and leave it later for TOB (want to make both version if there are 2 differnent)? Also how to trigger Judgement Day plot/quest? Never done it so want to try. I looted Angurvadal in WK, equip it and tried to find something in outside map of WK during night and day time but found nothing. Also today saw Ultra Golem first time ever, reaching these "new improved enemies" for me gives lot more challenge until I learn them (so far have been almost too easy).

It's a bit harder by numbers, but in ToB you have more resources at your disposal so I would say it should be arguably easier in ToB. Winning in SoA is a bit more impactful because the rewards are more useful at that time.


Only single-class warrior protagonists have access to it. There's a component in IA Tweaks that might enable it but since you're already mid-game you'll have to do some things in console in order to make it work.

[Part 25] Tirdir&Roger Few minor quest for experience

In Good Bad Ugly quest, have anyone find way to milk out all the spawns? Been trying a bit and Auriel seems to slide through all the character blocks I create. Maybe I need to test to build artificial barrier made of those moose running around (turning them into stones)

Even if you turn the moose into stones, it's a bit tricky since Ultra has purge.

I've milked everything besides the Ultra in the encounter. I used a wizard eye + proper positioning for the summons. A brief description from my Shaman journal:

"GBU finale, we prepare immensily. send in wizard eye to scout the area. Summons block the spot where ultra is desingned to spawn, pushing it a bit south - so more surface to attack. Whack ultra before it gets dispel away. Separate elementals while we're whacking the ultra & lure 2 away from Auriel. Auriel tanks just one. Buff Auriel (protection from fire/cold/electricity/acid) + ih + triple/quadruple regen + entrophy shield. Milk all golems from the 3 elementals. Take wish:rest half-way through. Would have probably made it without the wish:rest as well, but it brings certainty. The S/M is such an amazing tank, it needs maybe 2 skins during the whole fight and it tanks an elemental almost throughout. at a very late point we opt to healing ward + entropy shield dd, then cast absolute immunity on S/M and the elemental she was tanking goes for dd & S/M re-ups TPT + foreknowledge etc."

Thanks for tip, I found alternative way to make it 100% safe.

IA Tweaks not seems to include it. I did trigger both judgement day fights by console. First one was very easy. Second one really nice fight, but my party was too strong so we win on first try. Milked out all spawns, fight took almost 2hours irl time.

Haha! Cool!

I never could figure out a way to make it 100%.

Care to share a spoiler on what you did?

First I tested to create a wall with stoned mooses, when they are stoned, they are walkable through, so it did not work as I expected. Then I created a wall of kicked out joinable npcs and told them to wait at place. Pushed Auriel into the spot with Ring of Ram. These npcs cannot be pushed away and Auriel cannot walk through them, so she stays stucked and safe.

[Part 26] Copper Coronet Beastmaster Fight against Beastmaster
[Part 27] Sir Sarles Sir Sarles quest

Demogorgon fight won in 4 rounds or so, Necro Improved Alacrity (increased casting speed + mental agility) mass RRoR+Breaches+Remove Magics pretty much won the fight + Acid dmg killed one of enemies. Fight itself was quite short, but preparation and writing down all the enemies buffs/things and creating tactic to counter those took 2days. 3 Riskbearers with stacked Risk Increment ability is very strong. Helms Blessing was nice reward.

[Part 28] Tiris Tiris quest for easy reputation +1
[Part 29] Hexxat Speedrunning Hexxat questline for bag of holding
[Part 30] Thieves Stronghold Netting 40 000 gold doing Thieves Stronghold quest
[Part 31] De'Arnise Keep Clearing first areas of keep

Congrats!

I always find that only the preparations take 1-2 hours in real time for me, even though it's quite familiar at this point to me.

[Part 32] Keep Viper