Weird Issue with Kangaxx - MAJOR SPOILER ALERT

kiwidoc

Loads of spoilers below. I am not having the usual hassle of being unable to find the right tactics, and being unable to actully hurt the little bugger, but I'm having an infuriating problem with Kangaxx.

During my first attempt the demilich Imprisoned my PC so I was forced to redo it. Yhis showed my current set up was easily able to kill the shadow lich and then make some seriously big holes in the demilich. The next few times I kept getting nowhere ... but then I figured out what was happening. I get to the stage when the lich was "nearly dead" and then it seems that although he is taking loads of damage it doesn't seem to affect him. The last time I had definitely removed all his defence spells, and he had run out of attack spells. I am using all 4+ weapons, and the feedback box records me inflicting hundreds and hundreds of points of damage on him ... but he won't bloody die and turn into the demilich. I even used CLUA control-Y on him with no affect. I kept hitting him for ages, well over 15 minutes, till all the summoned creatures dissappeared and the NPCs started moaning about being tired. He must have takeh thousands of points damage showing up on the screen but he just won't bloody die.

Any ideas or help???

jmerry

The lich form doesn't need +4 weapons - merely magic will do.

However, lich form has an immortality item. You can only end that phase by beating it down low enough and letting its script take over to transform it. Which might not be instant, but it's certainly going too far here.

Do you have any mods? It's possible some mod broke lich Kangaxx's script so that it couldn't transform.

kiwidoc

@jmerry thanks muchly for the quick reply I have many, many mods installed, but I haven't had any problems so far and in my first attempt the lich form died pretty much as per usual. Also, in all the failed attempts I got the bit of dialogue when he thanked us for freeing him but the change didn't happen.

I went back a few saves and tackled the battle again. This time I had no problems getting the change to happen - the lich went down fast and pretty easily (all those mods helped my team to get pretty beefy and I've also done 4 floors in Watchers Keep.) I am just going to diagnose this problem as one of those weird, intermittent quirks than can pop up with loads of mods. Either that or the goddesses of the ether net decided to play a joke on me

shevy123456

With mods this fight can become quite easy, or also hard (Tactics remix mod for improved Kangaxx).

For me, just installing some mods that do not change much, I found that it is possible to kill the other
two liches and then Kangaxx, but I cheese it a bit. So for those not wanting to read a spoiler ...


I'll put it down below.





So ... what I usually do is I run to the lich in the hidden backdoor at the gate districts. I run in, he
triggers a few things, I run out again usually (though I think you can just run to the chest). I sleep
once, then I go back, I run to the chest, open it (you could also use the spell knock), take the
daystar sword or what is the name. Then I think you can kill the lich quite easily, but this one
is not so important.

Now with the daystar sword, I then go to the two other liches. The elemental lich is quite easy,
you can even sleep in his lair before the fight. So you go to the bridges district.

I typically have to run away once, then I come back and he should be a bit weaker since he
won't call the demon fiend. Korgan manages to kill him; often Dusk helps too, summons
are mostly just for distraction, but some summons can be nice, Jazon in particular, if you
use that mod. But it should be possible without mod too.

Then I go to the second lich in the sewers. Also doable with Korgan + daystar or anyone
else with berserk ability.

Then Kangaxx. After killing him once, I tend to run away, after he transformed into a
demilich, then I go back. This can be a bit tricky, but I often have my main character
who has berserk, and Korgan, whack on the demilich. This requires lucky hits but
it should be doable if buffed.

That way I can have the ring of Kangaxx quite early on.

You may have to wait a bit until Korgan is quite strong in his own right, so perhaps
at a slightly later level. But with buffs I found that it should be doable. Sometimes
it requires a bit of a lucky hit.

You may also use that +4 staff from Ribald or so. You can also use protection from
undead on Korgan in addition to that. Either way I found that this is not so difficult
to do; the more magic items you have the better though. It requires a bit of
experimenting, and by no means have I really optimised the above. It is probably
even easier to do, but the above is quite easy already IMO.

> This time I had no problems getting the change to happen - the lich went down fast and pretty easily (all those mods helped my team to get pretty beefy and I've also done 4 floors in Watchers Keep.)

Yes, a bit of luck is sometimes involved. Some mods make the fight quite hard; I recall
Tactics remix I had like 5 pit fiends throwing fireball and nuking weak hp chars such
as Aerie down quickly. These were initially disguised as rats, oddly enough.

Bishop_Ash

********* Major Spoiler ************

I've never fought Kangaxx personally yet , but I found this website that gives a major spoiler on how to easily beat him

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/41896/spoilers-easiest-way-to-kill-kangaxx-demilich-form

Hope this helps

Gel87

Protection from undead will not trigger the dialog which trigger his chance. That's ur issue. This is for me mainly a problem in scs.
So i go in commando in that sence.

There are many ways to crush him both vanilla and with scs. But unless your able to do it fast it becomes a hard battle without protection from undead.

If ur interested i could tell you some highly exploitive ways which works wonders, but that may ruin the fun or the challenge for you. Both on SCS or vanilla.