Drizzit help (spoiler)

tenkakahn

Did he get patched to not be able to be hit by melee? I am using a lvl 7 kensai doing a trick where he can't hit me but its been going for about two hours now lol.

I tried to just make my character 6x and rush him however in 12 attempts i never hit him once.

Is he only able to be hit by range weapon?

ryuken87

He just has a really good armour class, it's likely you can only hit him on a critical hit.

tenkakahn

Yah I let it go all night hes dead lol!

Madhax

Your Kensai attacked for two hours without scoring a crit? Was he fatigued or something?

marceror

Interesting, I've had plenty of problems with Drizzt in the past, but this time I was able to take him down in direct combat. One key thing that helped was having Kagain (SK'd to Dwarven Defender) standing as my tank. Dorn made him easier to hit, as did a number of strength potions my party drank. Haste is essential. He actually wasn't too hard to kill this time. My party was level 6 - 7 at the time.

deltago

Put your rolls on to find out. You should of rolled atleast one 20 in the last two hours unless you are the real bad luck brian.

I just slaughtered him with a couple (ok, about 300) bullets over 30 minutes (using the lame party reformation cheese - don't judge me) but he did go down.

meagloth

The only way I've been able to get him is both fireshilds at once then micromanaging stoneskin and mirror image scrolls and spells. I had coran with a thaco of I think 3 hit him once in the whole battle.

Michail

He has -16 AC. Says it all. Even with Thac0=3, you need to roll 19 or 20. And it's even more hard to hit him with a sword because he wears chainmail (mithrall chainmail +4, AC 1, but -1 against slashing). Which means that a "sword saint" would only hit him on critical.

Look at the 3rd comment here for more technical details:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/75251-baldurs-gate/53329063?page=1

PS. They should make Drizzt indestructible in the next patch and in BG2:EE, just to prove he is larger than rules.

nano

Michail said:

PS. They should make Drizzt indestructible in the next patch and in BG2:EE, just to prove he is larger than rules.

No! No exceptions. He's not even central to the plot, what does it matter if he dies?

CoM_Solaufein

The original designers cheated Drizzt. If you want him legit AD&D stats, check out my tweak mod. http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php?topic=7809.0

ElectricMonk

tenkakahn said:

Yah I let it go all night hes dead lol!

ctrl + y is much quicker

Elendar

Help! Help! Its a Drizzit!

RazaDelrom

he is the only reason I did go for 2 weapon style and scimitar for my ranger, so make him hard to kill - not impossible
Which btw. gave me the option to not use a slashing weapon, that's the good point in the "more exotic" weapons profiency beside the faster weapon speed which you barely see.

tenkakahn

How well will the scimitars stack up next week when I port to bgee2?

nano

tenkakahn said:

How well will the scimitars stack up next week when I port to bgee2?

They're okay but you'll find better stuff soon and I'm not sure you even get to use them. I would ditch them now, before porting, because the original owner might come looking... you didn't think you were the only party with access to Raise Dead, did you?

tenkakahn

Lol I meant scimitars for the profession I don't remember the better weapons from BG2

Michail

CoM_Solaufein said:

The original designers cheated Drizzt. If you want him legit AD&D stats, check out my tweak mod. http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php?topic=7809.0

If people want him with the original stats, maybe they should also give him his astral panther companion, Guenwyvar... that should be summoned when you meet him, since you encounter him hunting monsters. Which would make the battle an entirely different story, rendering most known tricks and tactics ineffective.

Elendar

tenkakahn said:

Lol I meant scimitars for the profession I don't remember the better weapons from BG2

Well, Belm +2 is a scimitar and probably one of the best weapons for your off-hand, as it adds +1 APR. Aisde from that, there's only a +2 Rashad's Talon in Shadows of Amn, though you could go grab Usuno's blade +4 from the first level of Watcher's Keep easily enough. And in ToB there is the Spectral Brand +4, which does 1-4 cold damage and summons a spectral blade once per day and can be upgraded with Cespesnar to +5 with negative plane protection and armor piercing strike once per day.

Plus, the EE version of the game may very well add new scimitars to earlier portions of the SoA game, so scimitars should work out well enough.

As for Drizzt's scimitars, you cannot bring them with you into BG2EE. You lose almost every piece of equipment when you import to BG2 except a few special items like the Golden Pantaloons and Helm of Balduran. The only way you'll be able to get Drizzt's scimitars again in BG2 is if he dies in Bodhi's lair.

@Michail

Maybe he already used his daily summon of the panther when you meet him. :P

Khrondor

Found a different way to kill him. Haste with 1 char. Ignore the gnolls and attack him. The gnolls will go after him and not you. He will come after you though. Run up to the lake, then run in circles around the gnolls til they trap him by the lake. He wil be surrounded by gnolls and the lake and cant get to you. Pick off the gnolls when hes Barely Injured, so there are less of them hitting him. Run away and save if you want. Then come back, he wont move. Then kill him with ranged weapons. Work on 3 games so far.