Curb Stomping DemonKnight on my 1st try after struggling my way through Durlag's Tower. With Aec'Lectec I was not as lucky.
Dad however....was also not as lucky but his showdowns with Aec'Lectec were of epic proportions and consisted of three days of nothing but trying to kill Aec'Lectec and Candy Crush (he really liked Candy Crush)
I would have to say my first BG run ever. This was before I knew about the keepers (and, since I bought the game on release day, probably also before there were keepers) and command lines, so I cheated old school; started and imported the char 27 times, hightailed to Nashkel and got 27 (!) instacast heal light wounds, before I was ready to explore the rest of the game. Also exported all books, so all my chars hence had (after import export a couple of times) 25 in all stats... until I discovered that that is boring, that is.
Other than that, I would have to say everytime an instakill spell manage to target something with crazy high saves, always a delight. Or all the crazy things that happens with wildmages - I just failed a summon monster spell that instead paralyzed Monty, and it is at that time Xzar decides to pick a fight with Khalid. Yeah, that did NOT turn out good for the Zhents, lets put it that way.
Eh, the problem is that I dont remember the old days to well.
I know that I used to believe that Minsc was the strongest fighter EVAR!!! and I gave him 2 maces and let him handle hordes upon hordes of enemies, the rest of the team playing support with ranged weapons and spells and buffs. Especially heal, which is where the epic part comes in. On more than one occasion have I gotten a heal in, when Minsc have had exactly 1 HP left.
I also remember killing a vampire dog with my last charge of wand of magic missiles.
I know I have killed Demigorgon in some spectular fashion, like the last man standing (me, obviously, since the game ends when your main dies) with my last ditch effort. I also killed Firkraag exceedingly quick, I think I got three crits immediately or something like that. The same thing with that demon that the dark elf ladies summon, he was like "Oy dont ya dare look me in the eye, mug! Oh thats it, now you're gon git it bad!" 1 sec later "Blarggghhhh I am deaded!" I killed Gaxx without scroll of magic protection by spamming wand of monster summoning, and got so lucky he was preoccupied with the cannon fodder he ignored Minsc (this was before you were limited to six summons, obviously). I also had a couple eye for an eye, I kill the bad guy but he gets me with a delayed spell effect or something. And clearing out the beholder lair under the temple district, using only a potion of haste, a scroll of magic protection and Minsc is fun. Having 4 mages use fireball / firewand at the same time is also fun.
Unfortunately, I do not remember the details to well.
Edit: Oh yeah, I was also fighting some instadeath mage or something cant remember. But I do remember that I had 4 priests that kept raising each others from the dead with spells and rods of resurrection until the enemy actually ran out of spells. A morbid game of tag, I guess.
I accidentally did a no-reload no resurrection run of BG1 once. It was gonna be just a normal run with a class I hadn't used before. Let's just say that half-orc R/C is kinda really powerful. I ended up dying in SoD because of the earthquake hammer.
beating the first time tactics irenicus in hell, now is routine work for me, but the first time it was hard, really hard.
one other great battle was in original with haer dalis and a sorcerer charname against demogorgon, 5 people party with the sorc overleveled as he soloed chap2 soa and the others underleveled as they was recruited at tle last moment (the sorc was bored and felt alone). i used all the power of the sorc, spamming PI and wishes, and later of the blade hla song, multiplied by its clones. i never touched demogorgon focusing only at his helpers that spawn continuosly. in the end all the party had constant +80 dmg and thac0, the best ac while naked and 100% mr. when everyone reached 8M XP i finally killed the demon prince, more than 6 hours rt of battle. that party never went further than yaga sutra in tob, every battle was too easy... it was no difficult at all, but somehow for me was a great battle.
Killing Borda (that fellow near the Xvart village who sells cursed items) with a level 1 party. Since he has high MR (and probably high AC as well) it's really difficult hitting him with spells (more so when he casts Mirror Image), and before you can kill him with physical damage, he can easily finish your low level party with his Horror + Magic Missiles (5 missiles each time).
I had Branwen cast Remove Fear, and then had my F/M cast Shield to absorb the MMs. The battle became so easy, and it was only a matter of time, when I whacked that deceitful rogue to death (so that he couldn't harm anybody else with his cursed merchandise ).
I think I'm the only one that never gave Minsc a two-handed weapon.
I can't bring myself to give Minsc anything *but* a two-handed sword, because of his dialogue lines. "Swords, not words" "Magic is impressive, but now Minsc leads. Swords for everyone!" "I'm going to need a bigger sword." "Full plate and packing steel."
It just seems wrong to me for Minsc to be holding maces while he says those lines.
He also is a natural fit for using Lilarcor. Lilarcor's lines are funnier when they are said to Minsc.
Again, not mine but during my Dad's last playthrough he ended up coming across a glitch that caused his containers to constantly respawn the items that were inside them (i.e. gem bag, potion case).
Despite my protests he exploited this glitch until the day he went to the hospital.
It actually ended up becoming fun to watch and Dad had close to 200,000 gold going into SOD
Defeating the final guardian battle in watcher's keep, no prep in advance or cheesy tactics, and no pausing. Looked at the screen for a while certain there must be some enemy left alive, and then when I realized there wasn't I looked like this:
Still not sure how I did it, won't even bother to try again. But definitely my most epic fight in BG.
During my last run in SoD my Enchanter charmed every "boss crusader" (the wizards, the half-orc and someone else I can't remember now) in their camp, lured them all to outside the camp and made them kill each other.
Emerging from the Underdark into Waukeen's Promenade, my party was accosted by a Githyanki party which sought the Silver Blade; the Silver Blade which, naturally, I wanted to keep for the sole reason that it gave me a sense of accomplishment. A fight breaks out in which I start throwing some spells, only to gate in the final, toughest group of Cowled Wizards that attempt to enforce the no-magic-in-public law which reigns in Amn.
So I end up in a crazy three way battle where several party members got slain repeatedly throughout the battle, muddling through with a Rod of Ressurection and multiple withdrawals from the chaos to keep my party from getting too spread out and isolated. Both the Cowled Wizards and my party were summoning in extra creatures to keep everybody busy. It was an utter nightmare. I don't think I won the fight the first few times, but it had been such an unexpected and fun challenge that I insisted on provoking the Cowled Wizards into joining the fight on every reload.
It was so much fun to do; no regrets. Although it did make the iconic 'disturbance at Waukeen's Promenade' that marks the end of the Prologue look like an everyday bar fight between Surly and the protagonist in the Copper Coronet.
Killing Yxunomei with a solo Dragon Disciple, without taking a single point of damage, and without using any healing potions.
This was the second time I killed Yxunomei solo, the first time being with a Ranger/Cleric. Was badly injured that time, but this time, my Dragon Disciple was untouchable! (Thanks to -11 AC and Stoneskin.)
@Rik_Kirtaniya You get all the respect points man, I can barely beat any part of Icewind Dale with a full party, let alone Solo. Dragon's Eye is hell for me and I've never personally gotten past Dorn's Deep even though it's much easier because by then I lost access to the game for a while and subsequently lost interest.
I have the game now though, and another playthrough is inevitable.
Don't know why, but I personally feel like it's easier to solo IWD than playing it with a full party. Not just the XP bonus, but playing solo makes certain crucial micromanagement tactics feasible, and IWD rewards them generously. Soloing IWD has its fair share of risks (keeping a safe distance from ghasts and stinking clouds, dodging traps, getting stuck inside an impenetrable circle of monsters, and so on), but I enjoy it more than a full party run!
@ZaramMaldovar Try a two party members run. It's actually more fun than solo. Jester and Inquisitor is a match made in heaven (although I don't remember whether IWD have those classes or not). Well, you have no heal spells, but other than that, it is probably the best two party member combination out there!
I found IWD to be so freaking hard the first time. So I restarted, cranked up the difficulty to Insane and suddenly everything was so much easier because of the XP bonus. Oh, the irony.
I once managed to have Dynaheir successfully cast Horror on one of the two Demons summoned by Simmeon. It was a magical moment and helped me easily win the battle.
recently i was playing SoA with my "jon irenicus" cleric/mage and i was using my "relatively weak canon party" and this time instead of racing to spell hold right away, i did like how i used to back in the day and do ALL the quests in chapter 2 first
so here i was in the windspear hills in firkraag's dungeon, and it was time to fight the ol' fogie himself, and i believe my team was around..... 1.6/ 1.7 million XP each? and Firkraag was just kicking my ass, even if i allowed party members to die and resurrect them it wouldnt matter because he was chunking them into bacon bits
so many reloads later, and finally i was getting the upper hand on this dude, but my guys couldn't hit him ( because again canon team isn't so great in the "to hit" department until ToB levels ) but then some extraordinary tactics came through on my side and not so extraordinary tactics on his side
first my guy and jan, had no good level 6 mage spells, but they had pierce magic, and even though firkraag had nothing on that pierce magic would dispel it still lowers his magic resistance AND magic resistance does not resist the effects
so i blast the holmes with 3 pierce magics to lower his magic resistance by a decent 36% or so, bringing his killer 65% done to something more reasonable
and then i had all 3 casters ( my dude, jan and nalia ) all cast blindness at once on him, and wouldnt you know, jan's blindness connected ( thank you gnomes for your forced illusionist specialty ) and because of this firkraag was all messed up in the head because his path finding went to poop
so after he got blinded he wanted to go attack somebody, i forget who it was, but what i did was instead was put nalia in his way with a stoneskin and had everyone else attack him from afar with magic missiles and the such, and eventually he fell because nalia was in the way ( hahaha )
so yeah, pierce magic was MVS that battle, infact it is becoming one of my favourite "offensive" level 6 mage spells, all those pesky creatures with their high MR, well high MR no more with this spell haha
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Stripping SCS Irenicus of his spell protections in first miliseconds of the fight. 1 ruby ray cast = 8 surges = 3 spells landed.
Um...that's a lot going on.
I think your Wild Surge had a stroke.
Dad however....was also not as lucky but his showdowns with Aec'Lectec were of epic proportions and consisted of three days of nothing but trying to kill Aec'Lectec and Candy Crush (he really liked Candy Crush)
Other than that, I would have to say everytime an instakill spell manage to target something with crazy high saves, always a delight. Or all the crazy things that happens with wildmages - I just failed a summon monster spell that instead paralyzed Monty, and it is at that time Xzar decides to pick a fight with Khalid. Yeah, that did NOT turn out good for the Zhents, lets put it that way.
"Always a delight"
Hehehehehe oh brother @DrakeICN why not grace our ears with a ripping tale of the old days, always a delight.
I know that I used to believe that Minsc was the strongest fighter EVAR!!! and I gave him 2 maces and let him handle hordes upon hordes of enemies, the rest of the team playing support with ranged weapons and spells and buffs. Especially heal, which is where the epic part comes in. On more than one occasion have I gotten a heal in, when Minsc have had exactly 1 HP left.
I also remember killing a vampire dog with my last charge of wand of magic missiles.
I know I have killed Demigorgon in some spectular fashion, like the last man standing (me, obviously, since the game ends when your main dies) with my last ditch effort. I also killed Firkraag exceedingly quick, I think I got three crits immediately or something like that. The same thing with that demon that the dark elf ladies summon, he was like "Oy dont ya dare look me in the eye, mug! Oh thats it, now you're gon git it bad!" 1 sec later "Blarggghhhh I am deaded!" I killed Gaxx without scroll of magic protection by spamming wand of monster summoning, and got so lucky he was preoccupied with the cannon fodder he ignored Minsc (this was before you were limited to six summons, obviously). I also had a couple eye for an eye, I kill the bad guy but he gets me with a delayed spell effect or something. And clearing out the beholder lair under the temple district, using only a potion of haste, a scroll of magic protection and Minsc is fun. Having 4 mages use fireball / firewand at the same time is also fun.
Unfortunately, I do not remember the details to well.
Edit: Oh yeah, I was also fighting some instadeath mage or something cant remember. But I do remember that I had 4 priests that kept raising each others from the dead with spells and rods of resurrection until the enemy actually ran out of spells. A morbid game of tag, I guess.
one other great battle was in original with haer dalis and a sorcerer charname against demogorgon, 5 people party with the sorc overleveled as he soloed chap2 soa and the others underleveled as they was recruited at tle last moment (the sorc was bored and felt alone).
i used all the power of the sorc, spamming PI and wishes, and later of the blade hla song, multiplied by its clones.
i never touched demogorgon focusing only at his helpers that spawn continuosly.
in the end all the party had constant +80 dmg and thac0, the best ac while naked and 100% mr.
when everyone reached 8M XP i finally killed the demon prince, more than 6 hours rt of battle.
that party never went further than yaga sutra in tob, every battle was too easy...
it was no difficult at all, but somehow for me was a great battle.
I had Branwen cast Remove Fear, and then had my F/M cast Shield to absorb the MMs. The battle became so easy, and it was only a matter of time, when I whacked that deceitful rogue to death (so that he couldn't harm anybody else with his cursed merchandise
Gorion's ward *Cast instacast (beholder version) finger of death* "Consider yourself victimized by EEkeeper, by a cheater extraordinaire!"
"Oh, a potion of dex and a potion of master thievery!"
"Swords, not words"
"Magic is impressive, but now Minsc leads. Swords for everyone!"
"I'm going to need a bigger sword."
"Full plate and packing steel."
It just seems wrong to me for Minsc to be holding maces while he says those lines.
He also is a natural fit for using Lilarcor. Lilarcor's lines are funnier when they are said to Minsc.
Despite my protests he exploited this glitch until the day he went to the hospital.
It actually ended up becoming fun to watch and Dad had close to 200,000 gold going into SOD
I miss Dad
Still not sure how I did it, won't even bother to try again. But definitely my most epic fight in BG.
Dude, that is just...dude, wow!
(Bows)
It was a beautiful scene.
So I end up in a crazy three way battle where several party members got slain repeatedly throughout the battle, muddling through with a Rod of Ressurection and multiple withdrawals from the chaos to keep my party from getting too spread out and isolated. Both the Cowled Wizards and my party were summoning in extra creatures to keep everybody busy. It was an utter nightmare. I don't think I won the fight the first few times, but it had been such an unexpected and fun challenge that I insisted on provoking the Cowled Wizards into joining the fight on every reload.
It was so much fun to do; no regrets. Although it did make the iconic 'disturbance at Waukeen's Promenade' that marks the end of the Prologue look like an everyday bar fight between Surly and the protagonist in the Copper Coronet.
This was the second time I killed Yxunomei solo, the first time being with a Ranger/Cleric. Was badly injured that time, but this time, my Dragon Disciple was untouchable! (Thanks to -11 AC and Stoneskin.)
You get all the respect points man, I can barely beat any part of Icewind Dale with a full party, let alone Solo. Dragon's Eye is hell for me and I've never personally gotten past Dorn's Deep even though it's much easier because by then I lost access to the game for a while and subsequently lost interest.
I have the game now though, and another playthrough is inevitable.
Don't know why, but I personally feel like it's easier to solo IWD than playing it with a full party. Not just the XP bonus, but playing solo makes certain crucial micromanagement tactics feasible, and IWD rewards them generously.
Try a two party members run. It's actually more fun than solo. Jester and Inquisitor is a match made in heaven (although I don't remember whether IWD have those classes or not). Well, you have no heal spells, but other than that, it is probably the best two party member combination out there!
so here i was in the windspear hills in firkraag's dungeon, and it was time to fight the ol' fogie himself, and i believe my team was around..... 1.6/ 1.7 million XP each? and Firkraag was just kicking my ass, even if i allowed party members to die and resurrect them it wouldnt matter because he was chunking them into bacon bits
so many reloads later, and finally i was getting the upper hand on this dude, but my guys couldn't hit him ( because again canon team isn't so great in the "to hit" department until ToB levels ) but then some extraordinary tactics came through on my side and not so extraordinary tactics on his side
first my guy and jan, had no good level 6 mage spells, but they had pierce magic, and even though firkraag had nothing on that pierce magic would dispel it still lowers his magic resistance AND magic resistance does not resist the effects
so i blast the holmes with 3 pierce magics to lower his magic resistance by a decent 36% or so, bringing his killer 65% done to something more reasonable
and then i had all 3 casters ( my dude, jan and nalia ) all cast blindness at once on him, and wouldnt you know, jan's blindness connected ( thank you gnomes for your forced illusionist specialty ) and because of this firkraag was all messed up in the head because his path finding went to poop
so after he got blinded he wanted to go attack somebody, i forget who it was, but what i did was instead was put nalia in his way with a stoneskin and had everyone else attack him from afar with magic missiles and the such, and eventually he fell because nalia was in the way ( hahaha )
so yeah, pierce magic was MVS that battle, infact it is becoming one of my favourite "offensive" level 6 mage spells, all those pesky creatures with their high MR, well high MR no more with this spell haha