However, at high levels with a geared-up party and someone swinging Crom Faeyr, even the toughest golems are little more than a nuisance.
Oh sure. EVERYONE JUST USES CROM FAEYR. Well what about before you get Crom Faeyr, huh? What about when you have to scour the farthest reaches of Amn just to find the damn pieces? Some of which, by the way, are guarded by golems!! DON'T YOU MOCK MY BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS WITH YOUR CHEESY HAMMER!
(Disclaimer: I use hyperbole for humor, I am truly not offended in the slightest. )
You forgot to mention that stupid poison mist that is so deadly. How many times I need to cast slow poison on minsc before he kills it with Lilocor at the Keep?
Coupling the belt 'Destroyer of the Hills' and "quaffing" an Absorption potion definitely help a ton vs. Golems - if there's anyone that hadn't thought of this yet. I tend to buy up nearly all the Potion of Absorptions in Athkatla because of how useful they are.
In 1, i had most trouble with two things... Ghasts and/or the other undead type, that cause stun on physical conduct. Greater doppelgangers, they were walking cheats.
In 2, i did not have any trouble at all. Except perhaps for the Greater Golems (Adamantine), Kangaxx (demilich, grrr), too many mind flayers in the same room (that was me being hasty and not them difficult) and the dragon child of bhaal in ToB (was difficult).
I've hated so many things, but learned to deal with them. I think I still hate anything with protections I can't dispel, especially if I'm not carrying Spellstrike or something and my characters keep complaining their weapons do nothing.
Also, that spider area of Cloakwood. I go in, make a beeline for the spider nest, get that done, and get the heck out. Stupid traps + stupid Imoen = annoyance.
Yeah, I really dreaded Cloakwood in a roleplay-intensive journaled game I have going that is reload-only-if-PC-dies. The Cloakwood area transitions are hairy in a game like that because ambush spawns of spiders, ettercaps, and wyverns can be deadly at that point of the game. Because of the style of game I'm playing, the party isn't likely to be uber and they're not maxed with the most powerful gear, and all that. I will resurrect slain NPCs (depending on mood of PC and party), but it's a pain practically speaking and disrupts the flow of the game, both from a "realism" perspective and as a narrative. So I basically ran like hell from nearly every ambush when traveling between areas! (I did have them kill a wyvern, though, to complete Coran's quest.)
I have never made Crom Faeyr and likely never will.
#justgirlyconfessions
You have not lived until you play a pure fighter and create grandmastery in hammers and katanas with 3 slots for dual wielding, and wield celestial fury and crom faeyr.
They are pointless. They do nothing. They give NOTHING...
...Apart from a few shortswords, maybe a few arrows and a bow and an unworthy amount of xp.
7xp... 7xp ! A pathetic, lame, diseased, lone wild dog gives more! (35xp)
And yet they can strike lucky with a crit and nearly wipe you out if you are careless.
Kobolds... Yes the most infuriating, annoying, pointless, hateful creatures on the face of Faerun...
... Second only to wasps.... which are the most infuriating, annoying, pointless, hateful creature in all of Toril and the other planes of existance combined...
AND I PREFER LADYBIRDS TO KEEP THE APHID POPULATION DOWN ! ! ! DO YOU HEAR ME JAHERIA ! ! !
Kobolds... which are the most infuriating, annoying, pointless, hateful creature in all of Toril and the other planes of existance combined...
That's quite much hate.
There is another creature that I hate: Ghasts and Ghouls, I don't mind them being Undead (I sympathize with undead since I played PS:T, and even before knew that they are friendly sometimes), but what bothers me is the Hold on Hit effect, right now I'm playing with a Priest of Lathander, just for RP reasons, seems weird that they can raise skeletons... Also, I dislike 1.2.0000's ultra-high spawn rates, sometimes they are nice, but sometimes no.
That's... a lot of undead. A serious amount of undead.
I'll be boring and say beholders are probably my least favorite. Either I cheese them (shield, or summoning and staying out of sight) or my battles turn in to a get-lucky-or-reload game, which I don't find much fun.
1.) Try to kill the Efreeti THROUGH the fire shield. 2.) Efreeti is throwing fireballs at your entire party. 3.) Between the fire shield and fireballs, you're having a hard time staying alive. 4.) The Efreeti is going down... close.... close... Gause form? What the F*ck? 5.) Wait 6.) Wait 7.) New Efreeti with full health, a new fire shield and replenished spells. 8.) 3 (!!!!!) of them in the prison quest for Haer'dalise? 9.) Yea to hell with this, i'm going to go kill something easier, like firekraag.
Heya, for me it's Imoen. Every time I'm trying to move on from some horrible experience, she's there. I try to talk to my foster father, she's there. I weep over the corpse of a fallen friend, she's there. I try to move on from the horrors of Irenicus, she's there. I show up in some sort of pocket plane, and for Bhaal's sake, SHE'S THERE. Seriously, how many times do I have to kill you before you get it through your divine skull that I want you to leave me alone?
And then when you wake up from a nightmare, she's there. A foot away from your face. She's developed a prehensile neck, and she's carrying a plate of cookies. "Heya, it's me, Imoen!" She wants to talk about your nightmare, and compare it to the awesome dream she had, where she had a cape and could fly, and wait how did she know about Boo, you kicked her out way before you recruited Minsc, and he was petrified between then and now... Ugh, Dead Hand Diviner Imoen. Sorry, guys.
But seriously, beholder-kin. I never liked eye-lasers, even when I was little, and now I hate eye-lasers. Oh, well, at least the game doesn't have gas spores. It'd be like that one bad future from Primeval all over again.
I have never made Crom Faeyr and likely never will.
#justgirlyconfessions
I'm jealous, I have a problem, every single play-through I have to make every single forgable item (Yes, even those that no-one in my party can equip) from all of Cromwell's stuff to that Beserker horn from the Bridge district. I CAN'T HELP IT!
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(Disclaimer: I use hyperbole for humor, I am truly not offended in the slightest.
#justgirlyconfessions
In 2, i did not have any trouble at all. Except perhaps for the Greater Golems (Adamantine), Kangaxx (demilich, grrr), too many mind flayers in the same room (that was me being hasty and not them difficult) and the dragon child of bhaal in ToB (was difficult).
And I still prefer long swords+scimitars dual wield.
They inspire hatred.
They just keep appearing.
Then they die.
Then a few more pop up.
They are pointless. They do nothing. They give NOTHING...
...Apart from a few shortswords, maybe a few arrows and a bow and an unworthy amount of xp.
7xp... 7xp ! A pathetic, lame, diseased, lone wild dog gives more! (35xp)
And yet they can strike lucky with a crit and nearly wipe you out if you are careless.
Kobolds... Yes the most infuriating, annoying, pointless, hateful creatures on the face of Faerun...
... Second only to wasps.... which are the most infuriating, annoying, pointless, hateful creature in all of Toril and the other planes of existance combined...
AND I PREFER LADYBIRDS TO KEEP THE APHID POPULATION DOWN ! ! ! DO YOU HEAR ME JAHERIA ! ! !
There is another creature that I hate: Ghasts and Ghouls, I don't mind them being Undead (I sympathize with undead since I played PS:T, and even before knew that they are friendly sometimes), but what bothers me is the Hold on Hit effect, right now I'm playing with a Priest of Lathander, just for RP reasons, seems weird that they can raise skeletons... Also, I dislike 1.2.0000's ultra-high spawn rates, sometimes they are nice, but sometimes no.
I'll be boring and say beholders are probably my least favorite. Either I cheese them (shield, or summoning and staying out of sight) or my battles turn in to a get-lucky-or-reload game, which I don't find much fun.
1.) Try to kill the Efreeti THROUGH the fire shield.
2.) Efreeti is throwing fireballs at your entire party.
3.) Between the fire shield and fireballs, you're having a hard time staying alive.
4.) The Efreeti is going down... close.... close... Gause form? What the F*ck?
5.) Wait
6.) Wait
7.) New Efreeti with full health, a new fire shield and replenished spells.
8.) 3 (!!!!!) of them in the prison quest for Haer'dalise?
9.) Yea to hell with this, i'm going to go kill something easier, like firekraag.
Ugh, Dead Hand Diviner Imoen. Sorry, guys.
But seriously, beholder-kin. I never liked eye-lasers, even when I was little, and now I hate eye-lasers. Oh, well, at least the game doesn't have gas spores. It'd be like that one bad future from Primeval all over again.