Spell ** Domination ** veteran users
Ignatius
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Looking for feedback/tips from those here that routinely use any form of domination spells. They are quite obviously powerful, with the proper combos one could almost live on them to walk through most fights especially the toughest ones. Although quite a few baddies have immunity. Is there any compilation of who exactly is immune?
The lvl.4 cleric version has a -2 save penalty. Doom->Domination will have the target save at -4. Casting time is decent: 4. Main drawback is a short duration of 8 rounds.
Last question: what can a dominated character do for you? force doors/locks? walk through traps? engage conversation? can you use his/her spellbook, "borrow" their weapons/items?
The lvl.4 cleric version has a -2 save penalty. Doom->Domination will have the target save at -4. Casting time is decent: 4. Main drawback is a short duration of 8 rounds.
Last question: what can a dominated character do for you? force doors/locks? walk through traps? engage conversation? can you use his/her spellbook, "borrow" their weapons/items?
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Dominated characters can do a lot of thing for you. You can force them to speak with you, swap weapons, and use there spells (although you can look in thier spell book). I believe you can also use thier thieving skills or turn undead if they are an appropriate class, although you can't use their special abilities,for example, mind flayers
You can typically defeat a charmed enemy by making them swap to using fists in combat, and then buffing your own party with there spells, and targetting themselves with thier most powerful offensive spell.
If you are interested, in BG2, you can pick up a total of 4 mindflayer control circlets, which can dominate anything thing in the game with no save (but they are one use only).
So yeah, charm and domination are seriously powerful spells which I recommend using (tbh, I use charm person more than dominate, but I usually memorise at least 1 domination)
I just used cleric lvl.4 Domination on a black talon elite - and once under my control, I did not manage to have him swap weapon between bow and sword...
walk through traps - No
engage conversation - No
can you use his/her spellbook - Yes
"borrow" their weapons/items - No
Things you can't do: open their inventory or spellbook. So you can't have them drop items or give items directly to you, for example. (This is to the best of my recollection, anyway.)
It does sound like an intriguing tactical challenge to try utilizing charm spells to the max.
One thing I like to do after taking over an enemy mage is waste their most powerful spells.
I took over Mulhey once in the Nashkal Mines, had him go over to attack the the kobolds he summoned and they surrounded him. Then I burned all his hold persons on the kobolds, creating a wall of kobolds in a circle around him, and after wasting all his ranged spells I had my CHARNAME start attacking him his ranged weapon and he just had to sit there trapped by the very kobolds he used hold person on.
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