David the Gnome BG2 no reload challenge
MacHurto
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After succesfully finishing BG1 without reloading, David is captured by Irenicus. Let's see how long I last without free action and the greenstone amulet :-)
This will also be no reload with the following exceptions
1- aerie's romance. Have never tried it and i like reading all the options. Not really against the no reload spirit, imho
2- iPad bugs. Just got killed by the werewolves in the circus on one hit. Have allowed to reload for that one and then just used invisibility to get to the final boss. Also a reasonable exception (again, imho)
Right now, just left Chateau Irenicus hating imps, killed the group at the 7 dales by the amazing tactic of web+Fireballs+spider spawn+blind dwarf+ shit, web is finished and all but the barbarian are alive + run sir robin run + bring the imp and wizard (that followed) to the guards in the promenade and help the guards kill them (didnt get xp i think) + go again and kill the dwarf after using around 80-100 arrows(!!) as he was drinking potions. Boromir compared to that dwarf only had a flesh wound.
The thief and his invisibility ring legged it when the web dissapeared so I lost the only loot i needed :-(
Then circus, save my future love, have a premonition of my own death (werewolf bug reload) use the 10' invisibility from the fairy dragon, run up and save the day.
Thats where I am at the moment. Will rest, go get Jan jansen to have my full BG2 party of 3 members and then continue with the wasy quests.
Hopefully at some point i have time again and can keep a diary
This will also be no reload with the following exceptions
1- aerie's romance. Have never tried it and i like reading all the options. Not really against the no reload spirit, imho
2- iPad bugs. Just got killed by the werewolves in the circus on one hit. Have allowed to reload for that one and then just used invisibility to get to the final boss. Also a reasonable exception (again, imho)
Right now, just left Chateau Irenicus hating imps, killed the group at the 7 dales by the amazing tactic of web+Fireballs+spider spawn+blind dwarf+ shit, web is finished and all but the barbarian are alive + run sir robin run + bring the imp and wizard (that followed) to the guards in the promenade and help the guards kill them (didnt get xp i think) + go again and kill the dwarf after using around 80-100 arrows(!!) as he was drinking potions. Boromir compared to that dwarf only had a flesh wound.
The thief and his invisibility ring legged it when the web dissapeared so I lost the only loot i needed :-(
Then circus, save my future love, have a premonition of my own death (werewolf bug reload) use the 10' invisibility from the fairy dragon, run up and save the day.
Thats where I am at the moment. Will rest, go get Jan jansen to have my full BG2 party of 3 members and then continue with the wasy quests.
Hopefully at some point i have time again and can keep a diary
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If you get caught stealing Ribald's ring (for example) or any merchant's wares:will theyalways be hostile after that?
EDIT: well done so far, I'm going to try to take Teyl through the dungeon in a minute.
Any good tactics to take those guys down at low level?
I havent battled any real mage yet, though. I am pretty sure they will kick my ass
Try to make sure that real mages can't touch you. Do you have Spell Immunity and Improved invisibility? I you cast Improved Invisibility and Spell Immunity: Divination, enemy mages can't cast any spells at you (excpt AoE spells) and they can't dispel your improved invisibility. Meanwhile, you kick their butts because unlike enemy mages, your Fighter/Mage is actually (more than) competent in melee.
Edit: Ideally you'd have a second Spell Immunity memorized (to cast SI: Abjuration), but I'm not sure how many spells you have available.
After that it was a public holiday, Cheese Day (very famous in Amn) and while Jan jansen spent the day finding presents for the rest of us (3x master thievery and robbed all I could find in the city that I wanted), David read a Protection from undead scroll and participated in the famous Lich marathon held on Cheese day. Killed all 3 liches and thank god, the scroll wore off before kangaxx and not DURING kangaxx. Casted a second one and finished the run killing the demilich.
Now off to De'Arnise to become lord of the castle (dont feel like obtaining the planar sphere this run even with the ring. I always feel bad for killing my apprentices)
Two questions:
How to beat a dragon without risks at level 10-11?
How do you dispose of the roenalls? i usually feeblemind+Petrify the guy but maybe there are funnier options out there?
Well taking on dragons at level 10-11 without risk is going to require cheese I think (e.g. trap spamming). But maybe I'm not that great at dragon slaying. I you have a cleric (preferably as low level as possible, Aerie comes to mind), you could cast magic resistance on the dragon, and use magical attacks.
Not sure if you can rely on this though... It's no-reload, so you'd probably better avoid risks.
Several potions of healing, stoneskin and mirror image later, we killed them. They were much tougher than the shadow lord, which fell to 3x web + holy smites & fireball.
After some thought, I will leave the dragon live for now. It is a no reload and a 3 man lv 10 party is a bit low on ressources. If something goes wrong, I am done. Now to the Unseeing Eye, I guess.
Btw, I like gnomes and I look the gnomish theme (with your charname, Jan, and Aerie who serves Baervan Cloakshadow and who's racially pretty cool when it comes to dating men)
Romancing Aerie atm, and hoping it gets better. She just told me before going to sleep that she wanted to die and was not good enough for this life (after owning the shade lord). And the next morning she says that banter about "thanks for bringing me! Blablablah". Women.
Anyway, just theseus-ed the unseeing eye (with shield of balduran). Again, easy. Had a scare in the zombie city with again greater mummies and bone golems that hit hard but the rest was very fast. Will do some city questing now. David is at 1.5M XP.
I'm posting about my charname soon.
BTW don't fret over Aerie, she's a bit confused sometimes. When captured and locked up by Illithids without any prospect of release, she's capable of saying "I'm so glad you have me with you. I never imagined that we'd be doing such great things!"
The rest was not a problem. Salmia's gang were greeted by 3 skull traps aerie had left in our only exit killing the mage and injuring badly the rest. 2x web + malison+ 2x holy smite killed the rest.
"Just in case, David." Said aerie "I didn't like how that salmia looked at you. I will create a skeleton to deactivate the skulls if they don't betray us"
Thank the gods for women's intuition. A bit possesive this elf. Dont want to imagine what she would have told, I dont know, Jaheira for example, had they both fought for my attention.
The final mage was a bit of a joke, he couldnt even cast true sight. Felt very stupid with my improved inv. + inmunity (detection) on.
Firkraag is still alive, will deal with him later.
Oh, most boring part? Jan killing the adamantite golem with a returning dart +3. I understand that killing an adamantite golem with a frigging dart is about making small marks in it until somehow a crack is formed. It would take years, right? Well guess what? It did
i really liked your cheese day
A word of advice for the lich marathon (solo only): use potion of speed! That way you don't need 2 scrolls and you will win the marathon by a huge margin.
The vampire room can indeed be very hard. Prot from undead scroll is nice there.
If you don't pretrap, the samia fight can be hard but you can skip it.
I would avoid the dragons for now. Killing them early usually implies lots of cheese.
If you want to keep any challenge in soa, i would recommend stopping leveling at 3mxp and not to use HLA. The game was not designed for them.
Will think about the leveling part. My idea from the beginning was to do a no reload run without holding anything back. However, I really didnt think I would get this far, so now I dont know. Let's see how the planar sphere goes.
@CrevsDaak the iPad shuts down automatically if you dont touch it, I think :-)
critical strike on an improved haste fighter will kill everything in 1-2 round
devas, while weaker than planetars, are too strong for soa. Implosion is also very good.
Anyway, with 3 multiclass characters you will probably not reach them before the end of soa
Have also wasted lots of time travelling around to advance the stronghold. Really dont know how to explain wasting 40+ Days if i was making a diary. I guess I would just shorten the time span of the quests and say it all happens in the first two weeks.
Only thing left to do is rescue haer dalis+ astral prison. Seems like the whole inv+inmunity(dev) will be the tactic against the warden too. David just passed the 2M barrier
Regarding aerie's romance, I am a bit dissapointed. I have enjoyed the other three (jaheira, viconia, neera) i have done more. Lets see the throne of bhaal content.
So, yeah, i was lucky. Now chapter 3!
How to protect against those spells? Death ward?