What Was Your Greatest Challenge in BG?
semiticgoddess
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What is the most difficult thing you have ever done (or attempted to do) in a run of BG1 or BG2?
This can be a roleplaying decision, a powergaming challenge, or anything else.
This can be a roleplaying decision, a powergaming challenge, or anything else.
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Also Tactics Tor'Gal was a huge frustration when I first got there, because I was used to easy FoA+3 and was quite overwhelmed going into that battle fresh out of the city.
More recently, the hardest fight for me was strangely enough a random city ambush party with 1 Mage 2 Clerics 2 Rogues and 3 Fighters, which hit after like the first day in the city or so and mop the floor with me regularly. That's with SCS set to 11 and Legacy of Bhaal mode, of course.
*shameless plug over*
(thanks to this forum, I now know about the bug causing th problem
BG2 - Dragons and Demiliches are always a challenge as well because there is no way you can defeat one without buffs and strategies.
So far, did the last pocket plane challenge and off to go ToB. I have scs and ascension installed.
Death roll:
Aerie-melted by green slime in sewers. Stupid, stupid death. She couldn't make a save vs death at +2, despite being a cleric. Nothing worked to save her when she got slimed.
Jaheira-disintegrated by Tanova's prismatic spray when battling Bodhi for the last time. Ironic thing is, she was slain by Tanova's prismatic spray 4-5 levels earlier when attacking Bodhi's guild for the first time, pre-Spellhold.
Rasaad-chunked by the backstabber assasins that spawned when playing the deck with the cambion in WK. I also lost the game.
Minsc-death rayed while under protection from magic scroll, and a flesh to stone ray (modded to require save vs polymorph in my game) hit his corpse mid-air as he fell, making him both petrified and dead. Unable to be selectable by scrolls.
Korgan-again offed by beholder flesh to stone, and then he died while outside of the party, leaving his loot and corpse behind. Weird.
Sarevok-chunked by a comet cast by a drow in Sendai's lair. Comet does half crushing+half cold damage in my install. (A comet is actually a huge chunk of ice and stone flying in the space, it burns only when it enters the atmosphere. The spell brings it down to earth bypassing all that, so it makes sense in my mind)
Mazzy-flesh to stonex3 trigger by a drow in Sendai's lair petrified her, and I have finished casting a cone of cold only a second before she was petrified:my cone of cold destroyed the statue. The same drow then petrified Valygar by another flesh to stone. I have editted flesh to stone to require a save vs polymorph. I was able to cure Valygar, luckily.
Viconia-cut to ribbons by drow kensais while fighting Sendai. They do 30+ damage per hit. Viconia had like 70 something. Was very viceral.
Flesh to stone seems to be the biggest killer in my game, partially my problem for I editted it to require a save vs petrification instead of spells. There is Adoy's belt that gives+5 to save vs it and another amulet that gives +5 too. If only those npcs wore them!
Killing all incarnations of Aec'letec without excessive gaze protection.
The most interesting challenge was a BG:EE run with SCS at its hardest. I really liked this and I learned a lot!
I haven't yet completed a No-reload run though...maybe...
On the other side IWD leaves more freedom for character creation and makes the task much easier for me.
Next challenge is probably just hanging in there long enough to actually finish BG2. I don't know why I just can't.
I think that if the end of the story were not so thoroughly spoiled by now, there would be more pressure for me to witness first-hand the conclusion of this epic saga, but I spoiled myself by reading up on walkthroughs in my wilderness years before the EEs emerged, so no-one to blame but myself for that one!
For some reason, I have never found Sarevok to be that tough. I could just be that by the time I got to him, Darwin determined that any PC making it this far was well and truly ready for the challenge. Or it could be the party of 6 I had with me, all of whom were similarly selected for the final conflict?
I'm starting to think it's impossible without a cheesy multi-class.
As for Sarevok, it was my first time facing him and beating him. Ended up having to zap him with his own lightning traps. Semaj kept destroying me when he teleported to the front of the temple, but he doesn't last long against a well aimed bolt from a lightning trap, using a lightning immune Imoen as a targeting sight on the trapline.
If anything, I enjoy them too much, as the game feels incredibly linear as soon as I set out for Spellhold, and there is little to do when I finally return - as I did pretty much everything before departing the first time - so the game remains linear to the end.
That said, I have picked up a renewed fondness for the first game, through the EE edition. I have a couple of dozen games in process at the moment, and believe a significant majority of those will eventually face down Sarevok by the end.