My least favorite: Vampires. Most. Annoying. Monster. Ever. Plus, they disappearing-icon-kill you half the time. My other least favorites, though none come even close to the vampires: Doppelgangers, Ettercaps, Spiders.
Efreeti, they just won't die. Everytime i fight them i'm prepared to kill them at least 5-7 times before i finally get lucky. And every single time they get back to life they have a full spellbook and another fireshield up.
Mephits. because they are fucking silly and can't be as smart and cute as their adorable Quasit cousins.
That, and vampires. Djinn(or whatever it is) are alsovery annoying because the come one at a time, and I have to use up a whole remove magic to take down their fireshield before I can pound the to death.
Mmm I'm going to have to roll with Vampires. As a primarily spell casting player I find level drain SO god damn annoying. That and Umber Hulks... watch my party wander aimlessly around the immediate area... oh looook Minsc just stabbed me! YAY!
I would agree that the having to re-select your spells after recovering from level drain is kind of a design flaw. At minimum, they could grey out the spells and keep them. But neeewwww.
Other than that, vamps are kind of cool, so long as they don't sparkle in the sun and aren't all teen anksty.
Beholder's are the ones that annoy me so much. Either I'm out cheesing them (by using the shield, which magically protects against everything and has no drawbacks), or they're cheesing me (it's nearly impossible to protect against all the things a beholder can throw at you without the first protection spells fading). So in the end, I don't enter their lair in the Underdark, pretend the Unseeing Eye is the only beholder around and go to his lair very early so he actually is, and I make faces when we have to kill one for the drow. If it pops up any other way, I CTRL+Y it and don't touch it's loot.
Vampires are a close second, simply due to level drain and the spellbook situation. You can kill them easily, but almost everytime it requires resetting up the spellbooks. Grr.
Worst monster is most definitely Saemon Havarion reasons being he taunts you, betrays you, and then wears plot armor while sentencing my kind and happy go lucky mass murdering self to multiple death traps and even trying to ambush me.
I haven't finished bg2 soa yet but the creature I hate most is the demi-lich. At least I think that is the creature all I know it shoots out timestop and always seems to throw Imprisonment on charname
Demiliches. Basically, fighting them is like "either you can't do anything to them, or they can't do anything to you". They are cheap, require cheap tactics to defeat them and the fight itself is far from fun. Good that there is about 2 demiliches in the entire game.
You know the vampires in the Windspear Hills dungeon? Well, I can't get past those. I have before, in my first SoA party (this is my second). I've tried that at least four times, if not more, and there are so many of them, and they move so fast. Though it is kind of fun seeing a vampire getting thrown back about twenty feet by Repulse Undead. I've been thinking of just outright storming the place where they hide out, but that would be suicide, wouldn't it?
You know the vampires in the Windspear Hills dungeon? Well, I can't get past those. I have before, in my first SoA party (this is my second). I've tried that at least four times, if not more, and there are so many of them, and they move so fast. Though it is kind of fun seeing a vampire getting thrown back about twenty feet by Repulse Undead. I've been thinking of just outright storming the place where they hide out, but that would be suicide, wouldn't it?
Ah,I just remembered: Turn Undead.
You'll need to have your cleric at around level 15/16 before their turn undead will kill those vampires.
I'm a level 26 cleric (yes, I imported from Black Pits 2). Does getting hit interrupt Turn Undead like it does with spellcasting?
No. But if you attack someone it'll break turn undead, can't do both. Certain NPC's have scripts that will have them defend themselves if attacked, this makes turning undead problematic unless you turn the script off.
The skeleton packs in 1. Going there before getting 1+2 level ups to all party members, can get you dead instantly. And those idiotic basilisks, if they petrify your main by accident, it's a game over (no chance for other party member to use spell or scroll on you).
Lightning is my least favorite monster. Percentage based damage that just so happens to strike at the least convenient of times. Being struck by lightening is supposed to be extremely rare, not 4-5 times every playthrough.
Lightning is my least favorite monster. Percentage based damage that just so happens to strike at the least convenient of times. Being struck by lightening is supposed to be extremely rare, not 4-5 times every playthrough.
I agree.
Sometimes it can strike several times in one battle, have had it kill many of my NPC's and even some enemies. In my game of BGEE it strikes for 50% of your health, so if you got 50% or less you'll end up dead. Garrick in my 'bad npc playthrough' got killed 3 times by lightning.
In BG1 probably anything with elemental arrows. In BG2 Illithids. I dislike all of the monsters that try to push you into out-cheesing their cheese, and on top of that, they don't make sense. I'm unstunned, have a stoneskin and a fireshield up, how do these annoying things eat my brains when they can't even touch me. >:(
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why can't they just die properly
They shoot so many rays that destroy your party unless you have the special shield.
Other than that, vamps are kind of cool, so long as they don't sparkle in the sun and aren't all teen anksty.
Vampires are a close second, simply due to level drain and the spellbook situation. You can kill them easily, but almost everytime it requires resetting up the spellbooks. Grr.
I hate Vamps' level drain too, but the flayers have caused me the most headaches of any species... Took me forever to work out a good strategy.
I've been thinking of just outright storming the place where they hide out, but that would be suicide, wouldn't it?
Ah,I just remembered: Turn Undead.
Does getting hit interrupt Turn Undead like it does with spellcasting?
Sometimes it can strike several times in one battle, have had it kill many of my NPC's and even some enemies. In my game of BGEE it strikes for 50% of your health, so if you got 50% or less you'll end up dead. Garrick in my 'bad npc playthrough' got killed 3 times by lightning.