hardest boss in forgotten realms history?
drakescar9
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one per franchse, for me it's either the king of shadows or the prince of demons and the prince of demons is qoute
'the hardest boss to ever haunt the world of fantasy'
'the hardest boss to ever haunt the world of fantasy'
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Ravager is the hardest for me, since those infinitely spawning Bone Blades are annoyingly good at slicing up the party.
Seriously though. With all his resistances and depending on what class you are Mephistopheles (OMG spelled right first try!!!) in NWN HotU can be really hard or kinda easy. Since his big weaknesses were acid, divine, and Valen; classes that could dish out tons of acid or divine damage or parties with Valen had a much easier time killing kim.
As far as BG goes though. I remember having a lot of trouble with ravager like @PawnSlayer said and also Melissan depending on whether or not she summoned death tyrants (not that she herself was any easier). Demogorgon seems to go down pretty fast for some reason...
Who is King o Shadows? Is he from BG?
...In vanilla Icewind Dale, of course.
I mean if I had trouble beating her with HoW installed that would just be sad.
I mean, HoW just freaking NERFED her.
But my gosh I remember how tough that fight was on vanilla.
If we're just talking the BG series, though, the only one I really had any major trouble with on my first playthrough was Sendai.
Sendai was a nightmare and it took me several attemps on the first time. Then I read about folks wanting to make her HARDER via mods, which I never understood.
Far from being the hardest boss, but one that always gave me trouble was Aec'Letec.
1.) Twisted rune. I clicked on this thing in misstake, voila i got teleported in and was staring down a lich, beholder, vampire, high level sorcerer and a oddly naked fighter. Everything that was so far hard in the game, was in that little room along with me.
2.) Chromatic demon in watcher's keep. Took me a very long time to figure out how to beat this guy, his very high regeneration and the elemental swap he does. I ended up kiting him to the acid room and lock the door the first time i killed him (I do this on no-reload aswell if i don't play a cleric or arcane caster). But when i look back at him, it's quite a simple fight if you have the correct spells ready. Also wait for the element change you want him to have while in the cage, then click on him and he'll still have that the first 10 seconds he's outside. So stack up on all kind of fire magic, wait for him to go ice golem and then click on cage and unleash hell on him.
Sadly most of theese fights lose the charm of being hard once you learn them down to single ability. Tactics and SCS blows new life into the game, as it changes just about everything in the game that was hard. Then when you have learned SCS and tactics all that is left is to limitate yourself by doing other things. Like no-reload or solo with a pure class fighter etc.
Edit: Or if you're talking just about the BG series then that obviously narrows the scope. Then we're looking at which boss is arguably most difficult via a vis the level the party is at (typically).
Modded BG: Ascension or Melanthium. Ascension is a complex, very long battle against many enemies; Melanthium has some pretty nasty abilities. Hard to say which, but one of those two for sure.
Except if you use the cheese ranger -> charm animal tactic on her...
Kangaxx comes in as a close second though.
The problem with kangaxx is having a +4 weapon and beating his regeneration time (Need 2 apr for this with decent Thac0).
Mages like the guy in underdark, or the gnome at spellhold, can be much more dangerouse as there isn't any way to stop their magic. And there are many protection from undead scrolls in the game, and few protecton from magic scrolls.
SCS kangaxx also use spell abilities instead of spamming imprison, and he is a foe to respect.
so it depends how you define hard,
for instance Kangaxx can be impossible for an ill prepared group(you need a method to hit him after all)
but you can set traps to insta-kill his 1st form
and have a mage with spell immunity abjuration or an enraged berserker to cancel his imprisoment spam(he casts it only on the closest target),all that remains is a +5 weapon to hit him
But if you assume some average Joe coming into vanilla BG and being faced with Kangaxx, they WILL have more trouble with it than with any other boss in the game, if only because they don't know wtf is happening and what to do against it.
But i agree what with Vanilla BG2 + ToB you can go through the game without ever taking a single point of damage.
I mean, the usual side-stepping tactic won't really work since there's two of them, and the tunnels before are labyrinthine and offer a myriad of opportunities for them to trap me.
The reason the Demi-lich is so easy is because he's only doing one spell (Imprison). And it happens to be very easy to get immune to that spesific spell, and if you're immune to it you can just beat him down until he's dead.
The Lifespring Guardian, in Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. That guy always gave me so much trouble.