Your Most Epic Moments

ZaramMaldovar

Recently I've been inspired by a board I saw called "Your Greatest Facepalm Moments" so I decided to start 2018 off with a bang by creating the opposite of that.

What are some of your most epic moments? Thoroughly crushing your enemies? Fighting for ages and barely escaping with your life? Performing the most amazing and hard fought near victory you ever had in your life that would rival an anime battle? Pulling off an incredible feat that you swear you couldn't do again if you tried? Taking very little damage from something that is supposed to annihilate you? A combination of these?

Post your most amazing and epic moments ever right here in my very first board of 2018.

ThacoBell

Clearing the Ascension final battle with the entire party still alive plus Balthazar. That fight is BRUTAL.

tbone1

I once one-hit Irenicus to Near Death in the Spellhold fight. Dwarven defenders rock.

ZaramMaldovar

Turning into the Slayer and tearing Firkragg to shreds

ThacoBell

Charmed Sarevok once by accident. He teamkilled his own bros and then died to the very first hit from a Jaheira crit.

Abi_Dalzim

The first (and only, because my disks broke) time I beat vanilla Baldur's Gate. My level 6/7 Fighter/Thief basically soloed Sarevok's entire party, virtually without a scratch, thanks to potions of invisibility. That's what happens when you expend all of your magic items to win a single fight in that game - you can basically be invincible.

Raduziel

My first SCS Solo No-Reload run with a Half-Orc Assassin. Hoarded every Potion of Invisibility I could find and, with the Staff of Striking, backstabbed every baddie to death in the final battle (BGEE).

OrlonKronsteen

The first time I tried SCS in BG2, I went into the Planar Prison to rescue Haer'dalis and every single enemy in the entire level came for me at once, including both the Warden and the Master of Thralls, probably due to a glitch with better calls for help. Luckily I didn't have smarter mages and/or priests installed, nor the improved tactical component. Still, I was low-leveled so it was a hell of a fight in which my characters moved throughout the entire map, running, hiding, kiting, pot shotting, throwing summons at enemies. The whole fight lasted about 40 minutes in real time (including pausing) and I managed to survive without losing a single character, and literally had no spells left at the end. Probably my best fight and the most adrenaline I've ever felt playing the game.

ThacoBell

@OrlonKronsteen That is awesome.

semiticgoddess

Stun-locking basically everything with flashers in the Party of Spiders run.

Wiping out crowds of enemies in IWD with the scorcher loop.

Dissolving Belhifet with Acid Arrows in the poverty run.

Slaying basilisks in a blind no-reload of the IWD Mega Mod.

Taking down the Coldhearth Lich in a blind SoD run without using the Secret Revealed.

Winning the SCS Siege of Ust Natha in LoB mode.

Roasting Breudayael with a WoL War Engine from across the map.

Beating IWD2 no-reload with three party members and Tactics4IWD2 installed.

ZaramMaldovar

And yet again @semiticgod wins the forum.

Seriously, I barely understood most of those words.

Rik_Kirtaniya

I once cast Spook on Firkraag, he suffered a morale failure and started running away. It was great to see.

Insta-killing trolls with the Death Spell. That animation of the soul vaporising out of the body is so satisfying.

Taking out the heretic monks at the abandoned amphitheatre with a level 10 (or 11) sorcerer alone (There were others in my party, but they stood at a distance watching). I cast stoneskin, mirror image, blur and haste, was wearing the Robe of Vecna and the Amulet of Power, so I could basically cast Sunfires instantly. The horde of heretics crowded around me but couldn't touch me at all, and I finished them all quite easily.

Finishing the members of the Twisted Rune with a low level (10-12) party, without any member lost.

There's more.... I'll write later.

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Artona

I killed single-handedly Irenicus' pet dragon once and it felt good.

Altair

I have two: my first solo Legacy of Bhaal playthrough of BGEE, and my first solo Heart of Fury playthrough of IWDEE, both starting at level 1 of course

Rik_Kirtaniya

Conducting "Mass Shoplifting" at the Red Wizards' Enclave in Waukeen's Promenade. (The Red Wizards practise illicit trade and slavery, so I thought I should not "buy" their goods, because with the money, they'll carry on their nefarious activities. After all, they are EVIL! What I have done is Chaotic Good. )

So, I gave Jan potions of master thievery, and stole all the goods of the three merchants (the scrolls, the potions and the wands merchants, because Gul Dukeem's wares cannot be stolen). After that, I fought them and finished them all up (and freed the wild mages)!

histamiini

Probably this in Solo Cavalier LoB SCS Ascension run.

And eventually beating Melissan.

Montresor_SP

Beating Sarevok & Co without losing a single hit point. (Skald Protagonist + Kagain + Dorn + Baeloth + Tiax + Branwen rocks!)

Pantalion

Getting into and taking out the spider lair in Cloakwood with a lone, injured, wild mage with no healing potions on a no reload run because the lair is the only place on the whole map with a container to store his dead party's gear.

ZaramMaldovar

@typo_tilly
I've never had much issue with the Gnoll Stronghold even at Level 2 or 3 (I've evem gone there with half my party still being Level 1 including Minsc and the protagonist). If a Gnoll hit someone they were pretty much dead but in my experience those Gnolls basically never hit anyone.

That last ambush before getting to Dynaheir though can be a bit tricky but again, the Gnolls are more likely to die than hit you, except for that pesky Chieftain.

ThacoBell

Went into the Demogorgon fight and forgot to prepare protection breaching spells (whoops). The fight lasted over half an hour and didn't lose a single party member. Nothing like a tanky Ranger Cleric to draw all the fire.

OrlonKronsteen

typo_tilly said:

It was ridiculous by the end. Minsc punched out everyone.

"You point: I punch!"

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ZaramMaldovar

I prefer to either use Minsc for the mines or recruit Minsc after the mines and then march straight to the Stronghold, rest and then just slug my way through all the Gnolls before rescuing Dynaheir, taking care of their Xvart friends and getting that stat book.

Epic Moment #1 is in my above statements, that was really fun to do.

"You think your divine blood enough to match?, I highly doubt it"
ORLY?

Epic Moment #2:

Succesfully Disintegrating the Suldanesselar Dragon

Epic Moment #3:



Epic Moment #4:

O_Bruce

ThacoBell said:

Charmed Sarevok once by accident. He teamkilled his own bros and then died to the very first hit from a Jaheira crit.

The same, but in my case he died from magic missile.

Grum

Did a BG1 solo monk run. Where she actually punched things to death! (Not everything...but some things...)

StummvonBordwehr

ZaramMaldovar said:

@typo_tilly
I've never had much issue with the Gnoll Stronghold even at Level 2 or 3 (I've evem gone there with half my party still being Level 1 including Minsc and the protagonist). If a Gnoll hit someone they were pretty much dead but in my experience those Gnolls basically never hit anyone.

That last ambush before getting to Dynaheir though can be a bit tricky but again, the Gnolls are more likely to die than hit you, except for that pesky Chieftain.

The Chieftain and punching things was my epic moment..

I was soloing with a tanky character with full plate and shield, and taking on the Gnolls and their Chieftain. Everything was going great, besides slow progression due to low par.

So I decided to take a short break and left the screen - AI (standard attack) was left in charge...

When I picked up again, I was on low health and a few Gnolls and the Chieftain was left. I managed to take out all the Gnolls when the chieftain hit me - I was down to 5 hp, and he at near death.

I thought that I would take him out in the next round, but he landed a critical hit. I was expecting the game over screen when I saw that my character was just lying there... I went through the combat log, and saw that iron crisis effects the Gnolls as well..

The chieftain had 20+ weapons lying on the ground, but he waited (perhaps deciding which one to pick up?) and charname got up. I quickly attacked the Chieftain: only to miss him twice and getting hit again, and biting the dust.

After a while I got up again, and lesson learned, I chugged 5 healing potions and a potion of frost giant str - and chunked the chieftain with a critical.

I have never gone into the Gnoll stronghold again - I just pick up the brawling hands and a tome, and exit north..

ZaramMaldovar

@StummvonBordwehr

"The Chieftain had +20 weapons lying on the ground"

I think you mean 20+ weapons lying on the ground. If +20 weapons were involved, whoever held them would be able to beat pretty much anything in the game, barring monsters that require certain weapons and mages that cast Protection from Magical Weapons of course.

Raduziel

ZaramMaldovar said:

@typo_tilly
I've never had much issue with the Gnoll Stronghold even at Level 2 or 3 (I've evem gone there with half my party still being Level 1 including Minsc and the protagonist). If a Gnoll hit someone they were pretty much dead but in my experience those Gnolls basically never hit anyone.

That last ambush before getting to Dynaheir though can be a bit tricky but again, the Gnolls are more likely to die than hit you, except for that pesky Chieftain.

SCS should have an Improved Gnoll Stronghold component. Who can make it happen?

ZaramMaldovar

My countless showdowns with Adalon during my evil Mage/Thief with a crossbow specialty run. I never beat her (without cheating that is) and I never finished my run but boy was it fun trying.

Oh the fireballs I threw, it was fantastic.

Raduziel

This one too (spoiler about the final fight in SoD)