Most memorable victory due to dumb luck?
Ziva75
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One great thing about Baldur's Gate is that the game provides plenty of opportunities to tackle high level encounters that seriously outmatch you. But if you know the game well, you can often plan all kinds of elaborate strategies to take down overwhelming odds and claim all that butt-kicking loot and xp early. But what about victories due to just sheer dumb luck?
In my case, I had a Cavalier, Imoen, Jaheira, Khalid, and Neera; all of 2nd level or lower and with no magic weapons. South of Beregost, I ran into a vampiric wolf (I think was a random encounter?), who requires magic weapons to injure.
With sheer luck, Neera wild surged (wasn't even using the dweomer) which resulted in holding both herself and the vampiric wolf. Jaheira than used her only Shillelagh spell memorized to make a +1 club and proceeded to beat the thing to death (since it was held, every attack hit..)
2,000 xp and feeling epic!
Anyone else have a particularly memorable victory due to dumb luck? (as an aside, my Charname for this playthrough rolled 97 total stats first try, with 18/98 STR... maybe she worships Tymora?
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In my case, I had a Cavalier, Imoen, Jaheira, Khalid, and Neera; all of 2nd level or lower and with no magic weapons. South of Beregost, I ran into a vampiric wolf (I think was a random encounter?), who requires magic weapons to injure.
With sheer luck, Neera wild surged (wasn't even using the dweomer) which resulted in holding both herself and the vampiric wolf. Jaheira than used her only Shillelagh spell memorized to make a +1 club and proceeded to beat the thing to death (since it was held, every attack hit..)
2,000 xp and feeling epic!
Anyone else have a particularly memorable victory due to dumb luck? (as an aside, my Charname for this playthrough rolled 97 total stats first try, with 18/98 STR... maybe she worships Tymora?
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Pretty much my whole party got feared or confused – can’t remember, so Neera was the only party member left I could control. She had very few offensive spells left, and no defensive spells. Suddenly two enemies would go after her in melee combat. And I thought I might as well fire my last spell and load for another try. Lucky for me she also fired some fire-spell-thingy and pretty much killed all the rest of the enemies. She almost died too, but she won!
Seriously though it is surprising easy to get amazing rolls with some classes like paladin. Due to how the class/race minimums are implemented.
As for lucky... Apparently I was very lucky when I came across the party in the under city just before the final battle. I never knew two of them had arrows of detonation until I picked them up off their cold bodies. I think I webbed them or Sleep'd em', before they ever got a shot off.
Moral of the story? Shoot first, ask questions later!
WIth neera, on a past game, first spell cast resulted in the summon of a Nabassu that make question of ignore all my enemies to attack me. I was level 4 at that time in BG:EE, so no, thx but neera don't bring me luck.
My first Aec'Letec victory came, after many reloads, from a summoned ghoul stunning him. It was hilarious. Reloaded that one, too.
I was rolling up a Cavalier indeed, so I suppose that might have not been so lucky after all (the 97 total points I mean).
I would proooooobably reload the firkraag fight if I had won with a chrom. orb as well... that just feels wrong.
Another kind of anti-climax was the 3rd time I finished the game. After a prolonged battle, all Irenicus' summons were dead, he was stripped of all his defenses, couldn't get anymore spells off and he was surrounded by all of my party hacking away at Irenicus, who was near death. Yet he stayed near death and getting damaged for minute after minute without the cutscene triggering. I suffered this bug also on my 1st or 2nd playthrough, but this time I didn't feel like retrying the whole battle just to get the cutscene to trigger and I declared the game finished.
Every time I do this quest, I always try to poison him, but to no avail.
That's an amazing victory though; I always either slaughter that guy or get slaughtered; pretty neat close call!
After the dialogue is done my team is just behind the arch. I immediately pause and select Valygar, I throw Azuredge at Shangalar, instant-death. I believe he didn't even have time for his contingencies to kick in.
Throne of Bhaal with Ascension, pre-final battle at Mana Forge.
Amelyssan summons Irenicus and Bodhi, after their taunts and dialogue are done again, I equip my Cavalier with Runehammer and charge Bodhi, first hit-instant death.
Irenicus was destroyed shortly after with a Greater Whirlwind and my Carsomyr +6. xD
With Bodhi I was like "I had enough of you, vampire bitch! *one-hit-kill*" Pretty satisfying.
Carsomyr is seriously might be my favorite magic item in any RPG ever made. Not saying its the 'best' or 'most powerful' BG item; but I simply admire it for being true to what a Holy Avenger should be, and it does not disappoint!
1) Party enters the grove in Suldanessellar.
2) Buff up with Remove Fear, Haste, Prot. from Evil, etc. etc. etc.
3) Approach Nizidramanii'yt and demand the cup. Nizi refuses, so...
4) Battle begins.
5) Minsc scores a vorpal hit with the Silver Sword in one of his first swings.
Nizi never even got off a wing buffet or a spell. Felt kinda anti-climatic. Still, I laughed my ass off!
I already mentioned my dumb luck victory in the other topic, my wild mage was sent alone to Cromwell's leaving the party at the dock's exit. No prot spells cast(only improved chaos shield), almost no spells available because I didn't rest, and a wild party of law enforcer Sirs appears. Nahal's Dweomer -> Horrid Wilting -> WildSurge: Spell cast twice (it's super effective!), my jaw dropped all the way to the floor. The whole battle lasted... 5 seconds?
1-with my archer: party level 4 and lower, I quicksave and attack drizzt just fun. I was expecting to die, no buff, no cheese, he dies in 6 rounds from our hail of arrows.
2- with my evil fighter mage, also low level, quicksave then attack drizzt, same reasons. He kills Dorn and Kagain fast, takes damage while doing so, Charname is near death with no more miror image, Edwin is uselessly slinging him with Viconia. I score a hit with an arrow +2, the drow is near death, he misses Charname. Viconia scores a critical hit (no critical dammage but still got the hit). Drizzt takes one damage and falls.
3- with my current F-T, trapped the area, about level 5, he dies the first round because all traps rolled high damage.
Shandalar with my F-T: garrick shot him with a wand of paralysation he fails his save, we butchered him.
I'm lucky with the optionnal(evil) fights, i usually buff for the bigger ones and win without relying on luck.
I knew I only had one realistic chance of doing anything to Karoug - Wand of Paralysation, hoping it would hit through the magic resistance and his saves against wands and then hoping it would last long enough for me to wipe out the rest of the group.
First thing I did was go and upstairs for the conversation, then ran back down to see if I could draw some of them down. One wolfwere followed me and I killed it. I did the same again, and everyone followed me.
So, wand of paralysation - hits first time! Archer goes for the mage to make her turn to a wolf, and then joins the rest of the party in wiping out his peers. Paralysation was still active, so I ran the party upstairs to safety and was able to save again. I retried the Sword of Balduran, now unguarded.
Now I have three party members able to use weapons against Karoug, who was now alone and unable to move. I opted against the MMM though in favour of just using Magic Missiles along with the dagger and sword. Karoug regained movement but only in time for his morale check to fail, causing him to run around hopelessly as more magic missles slammed into him, killing him.
I could have tried that 20 times and not got that outcome with the wand!