I'll never forget my very first fight against Sarevok - I didn't really have internet access back then that was reliable - or capable of loading any complex websites and TotSC wasn't out yet - so I mostly went into that battle blind and died in the traps on the way the first few times lol. Finally I make it, get my party past the traps, have Imoen stealthily inspect them, and then have at it. It was a comedy of errors:
1. Imoen fails her hide in shadows (she hadn't done this in some time and was using potions to make her even better... must've been that roll of a 1 in just the right lighting). Immediately they fall on her like gang busters and she's dead in seconds. 2. I send Minsc -in full berzerk mode in to try and get free hits to take advantage of Imoen's impromptu sacrifice and Ajantis joins the fray alongside him - along with TITANIC horde of gnolls that had been summoned using all sorts of rods (IIRC the original version didn't have any sort of cap or restrictions on how many things you could summon using the wands of monster summoning so my whole 14' monitor was FILLED with gnolls lol).
In the end everyone was dead except for my character (a crossbow wielding bard) who had a total of <15 HP left, and a 2 HP Jaheira slingin' bullets at Sarevok as he sauntered over to me to deliver the coup de grace (I was trying to kite with ranged weapons) - my eventual death in this encounter was virtually assured. When I see a little notice pop up - Critical Hit - game hangs - cinematic. Jaheira had saved me with the mightiest slang' of a +2 bullet I have ever seen. I owe her big time and still feel guilty not taking her with me all these years later
Just finished Sarevok on legacy of bhaal with scs installed and it was pretty anti climactic. Picked off his friends one by one who were actually more challenging than Sarevok himself. After they were dispatched I just kited him around and filled him with projectiles until he fell over since using these mods/difficulty settings he did around 60 damage per attack and critical for 100+ one shotting my tank
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1. Imoen fails her hide in shadows (she hadn't done this in some time and was using potions to make her even better... must've been that roll of a 1 in just the right lighting). Immediately they fall on her like gang busters and she's dead in seconds.
2. I send Minsc -in full berzerk mode in to try and get free hits to take advantage of Imoen's impromptu sacrifice and Ajantis joins the fray alongside him - along with TITANIC horde of gnolls that had been summoned using all sorts of rods (IIRC the original version didn't have any sort of cap or restrictions on how many things you could summon using the wands of monster summoning so my whole 14' monitor was FILLED with gnolls lol).
In the end everyone was dead except for my character (a crossbow wielding bard) who had a total of <15 HP left, and a 2 HP Jaheira slingin' bullets at Sarevok as he sauntered over to me to deliver the coup de grace (I was trying to kite with ranged weapons) - my eventual death in this encounter was virtually assured. When I see a little notice pop up - Critical Hit - game hangs - cinematic. Jaheira had saved me with the mightiest slang' of a +2 bullet I have ever seen. I owe her big time and still feel guilty not taking her with me all these years later