But what if you used Sleep already on the diseased gibberling?
What if you attacked Jon Irenicus with only one hit point and no armor or magic? If you are handicapping yourself, your toughest enemy is yourself, not anyone in the game.
Definitely Sarevok for me. The first few times I tried, I had limited knowledge of the game and resorted to mass spamming of the Wand of Summoning with Dynaheir. Meanwhile, my other characters fumbled to reload the endless supply of missles ammo I brought to take him down.
The wolf in the first area outside Candlekeep while playing a mage at lvl 1 ...
First level is always interesting! I've got a new party going with a cleric and a mage, of course I'll recruit Imoen first thing. But it should be fun getting to the Inn with no tank! Or maybe I put that wrong; with a cleric (with an 8 strength) as my tank.
I only just beat Aec'Letec for the first time yesterday, and he was... annoying. His death gaze is annoying as heck, but other than that he was pretty easy. I beat him several times but my Charname kept exploding into a ghoul.
This is when people tell me that I could have dispelled that effect somehow.
I think any fight against a spellcaster that you don't want to use nishruus or hakeshars due to the equipment they're wearing is considered hard. Otherwise, just summon them one at a time and they can kill just about any pure mage/sorceror for you as long as you take out any summons of their own (SCSii tested). Otherwise, I would say the hardest fight was The final Battle in ToB SCSii.
I manged to beat it on core rules with my whole party being moderately injured. But on insane difficulty, I died the moment she summons that swarm of mass demons in addition to there being 2 fallen solars still alive. I have no idea how you are supposed to survive that. Not to mention she kept smacking me away from her preventing me from rushing her quickly.
I'll probably have to make a custom all 18 stat party next time in order to beat her on insane difficulty.
The first time I played, it was the assassin right outside of the FAI. It would be me and Imoen, I would go straight there at 1st level. No idea why it was so hard, it just was.
The first time I played, it was the assassin right outside of the FAI. It would be me and Imoen, I would go straight there at 1st level. No idea why it was so hard, it just was.
Every now and then that fight is still a massive pain. If he manages to get the fear off, it's 50/50 if it's game over thanks to the Magic Missles 100-0 their target.
The first time I encountered slimes screwed my team of adventurers. It was like. The blob has arrived, now how do I make it bleed! I think my wizard (CHARNAME) was the only party member with a weapon that dealt crushing blows, with his quarter staff and managed to hurt but not defeat the things... It took quite a few attempts to put 2 and 2 together.
In BG1 the basement demon in Ulgoths Beard is fairly difficult and took many retries to get the right strategy down. Eventually I had made sure as many people as possible were immune to hold via spells or equipment. Other than that I used fireball arrows with two archers to nuke all the priests while about 3 characters tanked the demon. Haste and defensive buffs and all manner of potions applied before going into the chamber of course.
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This is when people tell me that I could have dispelled that effect somehow.
The first time I encountered slimes screwed my team of adventurers. It was like. The blob has arrived, now how do I make it bleed! I think my wizard (CHARNAME) was the only party member with a weapon that dealt crushing blows, with his quarter staff and managed to hurt but not defeat the things... It took quite a few attempts to put 2 and 2 together.
Them were the days...