defeating mindflyers

joliekiller

With the original version, it was easy for me. trow a frew cloudkills close door and wait.
But now they are magical resistant?? When you attacked with improved invisability they still couldnt see you, now they do Any tips? their brain devouring eats up my team.....

semiticgoddess

Chaotic Commands will stop your characters from getting stunned. If you characters get stunned, the Mind Flayers get automatic hits and will kill any character within one round. Mantle and PFMW are cheap albeit temporary ways to achieve immunity to the Mind Flayer attack weapon. Low AC will also keep you from getting hit. The Girdle of Piercing will help, as the Mind Flayer attack strikes as a piercing weapon. Potions of Genius and Mind Focusing will provide a buffer against Intelligence drain. Skeleton Warriors summoned via Animate Dead at level 15 will also be able to tank them. Teleport Field can reduce the Mind Flayers' ability to attack you.

demon9675

Use skellies! They're immune to Mind Flayer status effects, I believe. Keep them in front while you spellcast/shoot from behind. Seriously makes a huge difference.

Like @semiticgod said, using Chaotic Commands and raising Int beforehand will also help.

RedWizard

Skellies just get exploded by mindflayers if you are using SCS.
As far as killing them goes, they can't dispel so you just need to buff a melee with pots of genius, improved haste etc
Very easy to do with Korgan since you don't even need to bother casting chaotic commands.

DJKajuru

Potion of genius, stoneskin and chaotic commands. Oh,make sure you haste a strong fighter, too. High AC helps a lot.

demon9675

RedWizard said:

Skellies just get exploded by mindflayers if you are using SCS.
As far as killing them goes, they can't dispel so you just need to buff a melee with pots of genius, improved haste etc
Very easy to do with Korgan since you don't even need to bother casting chaotic commands.

Good to know. I'm just playing vanilla; wasn't sure what OP was playing.

sparrow13x

demon9675 said:

Use skellies! They're immune to Mind Flayer status effects, I believe. Keep them in front while you spellcast/shoot from behind. Seriously makes a huge difference.

Like @semiticgod said, using Chaotic Commands and raising Int beforehand will also help.

Yeah I like to use Skeleton Warriors and Mord. Swords to take them down. Haste them up and they can generally take out most of a room by themselves.

On my current Berserker/Thief I just do hit-and-run backstabs while enraged and it's pretty effective too. Just don't get cornered or you could be in trouble.

Riderat

yup, also keep in mind that the lower your Intelligence score is - the faster they will eat your brains. That said, send only your most intelligent warriors to combat them if you don't have any distractions like summons or something.

Riderat

Magnus_Grelich

Best way I've found is to summon a few invisible stalkers and haste them. Mindflayers seem to have a lot of trouble with them.

[Deleted User]

Greenstone Amulet (which can be found in the Beholder City) will also protect a character. Also, the domination and stun effects are both Save vs. Spell, so if you can buff that save up high enough (easier with shorty saves), you can make a character effectively immune.