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How To Beat Drizzt?

MikeMastersMikeMasters Member Posts: 141
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Im planning to go for a 2 weapon style kensai and would love to use Drizzt's weapons. This thread is to discuss how to beat Drizzt in BG:EE to do this.

Now the old ways were to either use that pathfinder bug to draw him north and throw hundreds of arrows at him from the small island or to crowd him with monsters from a wand and again throw hundreds of arrows at him.

Im assuming the pathfinder bug won't work anymore, will there be wands of monster summoning as I didn't come across any in BG2?

Anyone have any other cool ways to take Drizzy down without cheating?
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  • MikeMastersMikeMasters Member Posts: 141
    looking on youtube there seems to be another way ive never seen before, you basically surround Drizzt with 4 of your party members, kick them out and ask them to wait were they are and with the remaining 2 throw hundreds of arrows at him, he doesn't move!

  • AHFAHF Member Posts: 1,376
    With pathfinding fixed, if you don't want to abuse the kick people out of the part style attack you can use invisibility + backstab. Get a few potions and have at him.
  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    To defeat him in an 'honest' way you'd have to do a lot of 'hit and run' , and make sure you've got a very low thac0.
  • CheesebellyCheesebelly Member Posts: 1,727
    A max level F/M/C with all the buffs potion and spells on the game with a knave's robe and the golden girdle can dominate him in a one-on-one battle :)
  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    Cheesebelly said:

    A max level F/M/C with all the buffs potion and spells on the game with a knave's robe and the golden girdle can dominate him in a one-on-one battle :)

    However , if he's already max leveled, why would he go for Drizzt's loot?
  • CaptRoryCaptRory Member Posts: 1,660
    Don't you initially come across him in the middle of a horde of kobolds? Might be a good time to jump him with archers and other ranged attacks. Once he's out of kobolds to kill he might be weak enough to make the other tactics extra-viable.
  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    CaptRory said:

    Don't you initially come across him in the middle of a horde of kobolds? Might be a good time to jump him with archers and other ranged attacks. Once he's out of kobolds to kill he might be weak enough to make the other tactics extra-viable.

    He might if your thac0 is good enough to sure strike him a lot.
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    CaptRory said:

    Don't you initially come across him in the middle of a horde of kobolds? Might be a good time to jump him with archers and other ranged attacks. Once he's out of kobolds to kill he might be weak enough to make the other tactics extra-viable.

    It is gnolls not kobolds.
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    bigdogchris said:

    I beat him by not using exploits, at 89k experience.

    What I do is load up ranged attacks for all my party members, and use several wands of summoning and summoning spells. Then I throw everything at him, and hope my party members roll enough 20's.

    You could still get away with this certainly. Though the monster summoning limit doesn't help.
  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    Ctrl+Y solve this problem in an very fast way :)!

    But since you don't want a cheat solution, mass summon monster wands could help to do the trick, the invisible hit tactic is also good to.

    I believe that in the Enhanced Edition, maybe some exclusive low level spells from BG II would appear in BG too, as lower resistance, stoneskin, protection from normal/magical weapons, among others, if that comes to happen, maybe some new means to kill Drizzt appear also.
  • mjsmjs Member Posts: 742
    i had a great technique i used on the demon cult on ulgoth's beard, could work on drizzt. get his attention with an NPC, cast otiluke's resilient sphere on the NPC and while drizzt is ineffectively hacking at him, hit him with everything. rinse and repeat.

    the reason this worked well on the cult is that you exit the house and bottle neck the enemies on those weird stairs up to the door, so they have no choice to either attack the sphered NPC or sit there stuck
  • KirkorKirkor Member Posts: 700
    As far as I remember, these are legit and quite easy options:
    1) Good thief, with lots of invisibility potions and just backstab him all the time.
    2) Boots of haste +potions of haste, good bow and lots of arrows
    3) Same as 2, but with exploding arrows ;p
  • ARKdeEREHARKdeEREH Member Posts: 531
    edited November 2012
    In BG1:

    What I did is agree to fight the gnolls with him and then ran off while he was fighting them. I positioned my two party members north and south of him and then had them attack him with ranged weapons at the same time and play ring around the gnolls when he chased one, while the other continued to attack him. This took a long time and I had to be careful or either he or the gnolls would kill me, but Drizzt eventually died.

    I did this with a party of two. It was just Viconia and my PC, who was a Cleric/Thief.

    Edit: Another way to kill Drizzt is to cast haste on someone and have them run up within Drizzt's line of sight, but not close enough for him to actually talk to you. Once Drizzt sees a character in your party, he will focus on that person and follow them around, even if he walks past other characters to do so. If you stay ahead of him, your other characters can attack him all they want, and he won't fight back. He will just continue to walk towards the first character he saw. I beat him once, that way, but without casting haste he very often catches up to you and once he starts that conversation with you, its too late.

    In BG2:

    I summoned a Mordenkiean's [not sure on spelling] Sword and had it run into the middle of Drizzt's group. They all concentrated their attacks on the sword and ignored my PC (it was a solo game). I went to the southern corner of the map and summoned some creatures and sent them up to attack Drizzt. I then used spells and sling bullets to kill first Drizzt, and then his friends.
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  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    edited November 2012
    If only Drizzt had a bow and some arrows to counter attack...
  • QuartzQuartz Member Posts: 3,853
    DJKajuru said:

    If only Drizzt had a bow and some arrows to counter attack...

    Pfft, what? Rangers don't use bows. Sheesh.
  • AnduinAnduin Member Posts: 5,745
    This thread sound very much like this thread here... http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/4094/count-the-ways-of-how-to-kill-drizzt#latest
  • bigdogchrisbigdogchris Member Posts: 1,336
    elminster said:

    bigdogchris said:

    I beat him by not using exploits, at 89k experience.

    What I do is load up ranged attacks for all my party members, and use several wands of summoning and summoning spells. Then I throw everything at him, and hope my party members roll enough 20's.

    You could still get away with this certainly. Though the monster summoning limit doesn't help.
    I always hit the limit before trying :)

  • bbearbbear Member Posts: 1,180
    Bg2: Power Word Blind - checkmate
  • MungriMungri Member Posts: 1,645
    set down loads of thief traps, kill him in 1 second. Easy.
  • MungriMungri Member Posts: 1,645
    bbear said:

    Bg2: Power Word Blind - checkmate

    Won't work, he has impossible spell resistance.

  • bbearbbear Member Posts: 1,180
    Spell triggerx3 lower resistance/pierce magic beforehand
  • MungriMungri Member Posts: 1,645
    Lower resistance / pierce magic aren't available in BG1 unless you cheat them in.
  • bbearbbear Member Posts: 1,180
    yea I was talking about bg2. Never played bg1.
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    edited November 2012
    Mungri said:

    Lower resistance / pierce magic aren't available in BG1 unless you cheat them in.

    Pierce magic would not be. But in BGEE you would barely gain access to lower resistance by near the end of the game after you've probably gone through some of Watcher's Keep if you have a 6 person party. You definitely could not get away with the spell triggers though.
  • BrightNightBrightNight Member Posts: 36
    How dare you guys kill the legendary Ranger......shame on you!

    What i did was monster summoning and send some undead after him while shooting ice/fire/piercing arrows. Works fine.

    I like to try to kill him every time i encounter him but i always load the game again and be his friend...cant live with that.
  • HaHaCharadeHaHaCharade Member Posts: 1,644
    Are we even sure that the pathfinding is good enough to find you with the BG2 engine? I'm still not so sure it will be....
  • MungriMungri Member Posts: 1,645
    elminster said:

    Mungri said:

    Lower resistance / pierce magic aren't available in BG1 unless you cheat them in.

    Pierce magic would not be. But in BGEE you would barely gain access to lower resistance by near the end of the game after you've probably gone through some of Watcher's Keep if you have a 6 person party. You definitely could not get away with the spell triggers though.
    Neither is lower resistance. Sure its a level 5 spell, but it doesn't actually drop anywhere in BG1.
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    Mungri said:

    elminster said:

    Mungri said:

    Lower resistance / pierce magic aren't available in BG1 unless you cheat them in.

    Pierce magic would not be. But in BGEE you would barely gain access to lower resistance by near the end of the game after you've probably gone through some of Watcher's Keep if you have a 6 person party. You definitely could not get away with the spell triggers though.
    Neither is lower resistance. Sure its a level 5 spell, but it doesn't actually drop anywhere in BG1.
    Sorry I must have missed something I thought this discussion was generally discussing BG:EE, so presumably you'd have access to level 5 mage spells including lower resistance (because its being run by using the ToB engine). Obviously in BG1 there is no lower resistance.
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