Dealing with trolls in Dragon's Eye? Should I have more gold by now?

rickcr · February 2017

Have a party of four (Berserker, Totemic Druid, Swashbuckler, Sorcerer.) I'm in Dragon's Eye and those stupid trolls and some spiders that need fire to kill them are annoying. My swash that acts as an archer only has about 15 fire arrows and about the same in acid arrows. I'm about to EE Keeper burning hands on my Sorc (since I took Chromatic orb, identify, grease, and magic missile so far) Have about 6 jugs of that burning oil you can pick up.
When looking at a walk through on gameBanshee they mention picking up trollkiller back in Kuldahar, but that costs about 36K and I only have 13K right now. Should I have more by this point?

Just wondering how others deal with the trolls at this (seemingly) rather early point in the game?

I know people manage to solo this game with pretty much every type of class, makes me even more curious how they're doing it if they don't have a fire/acid damage weapon? Is there some place people go to grind some mobs for money before entering dragon's eye?

Thanks

JuliusBorisov · February 2017

Usually arrows and jugs of burning oil should be enough. Just uyse them to finish trolls, not to harm them.

Having 13k gold at that stage is fine.

You can use Flame Blade spell by your druid. For a sorcerer you can choose fire/acid spells for the 2nd level.

CrevsDaak · February 2017

Chromatic Orb deals acid damage from level 10 onwards. Never played the whole game so no idea around what level your party is, but it deals a good amount of acid damage and it's a level 1 spell.

AstroBryGuy · February 2017

Only use the fire/acid arrows for the "kill shot". You don't need them to hurt the trolls, just to kill them.

Your druid can cast Flame Blade, which is great for the troll kill shot too.

Oswald sells 30 flasks of burning oil. Load up.

PS - Chromatic Orb in IWDEE does NOT do acid damage. If your mage is 3rd level, it does fire damage, but at higher levels, it does magic damage.

If you want the BGEE version of the spell, unzip the linked file below and drop the SPWI118.SPL file into your override directory.

https://forums.beamdog.com/uploads/editor/2v/se72kkwy3qfj.zip

The in-game spell description won't change, but here is a summary of what the spell will do vs. level:

1st Level: 1d4 damage and blinds the target for 1 round.
2nd Level: 1d4 damage and inflicts pain (-1 penalty to Strength, Dexterity, AC, and THAC0) upon the victim.
3rd Level: 1d6 damage and burns the victim for an additional 1d8 damage.
4th Level: 1d6 damage and blinds the target for 1 turn.
5th Level: 1d8 damage and stuns the target for 3 rounds.
6th Level: 1d8 damage and causes weakness (-4 penalty to THAC0) in the victim.
7th Level: 1d10 damage and paralyzes the victim for 2 turns.
10th Level: 1d12 acid damage and turns the victim to stone.
12th Level: 2d8 acid damage and instantly kills the victim.

NOTE: The victim saves vs. Spell with a +6 bonus against all the effects and gets no save against the damage.

Chidojuan · February 2017

There are also a few areas where you can funnel them to you. I found the spell Spike Growth to be really effective at weakening enemies quickly so you can finish them off and mop them up with the oil and arrows.

rickcr · February 2017

Thanks guys! Good stuff.

BillyYank · February 2017

Knock a couple of them down next to each other. Then you can use one bottle of oil to killshot more than one troll at a time. If you knock down a couple of trolls in a bottleneck, the others can't reach you so you can kill them with missile weapons.

Pokota · February 2017

and pick scimitar prof for your druid next chance you get - there are more trolls later, so flame blade will be indispensable.

If anyone has skill with it, there's also the Trollslayer weapon for later. I believe it's a Longsword, but I could be wrong.

Meandre · February 2017

Pokota said:
and pick scimitar prof for your druid next chance you get - there are more trolls later, so flame blade will be indispensable.
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Oh, did they change this with EE?
I know that in the original Icewind Dale, the only proficiency/weapon spell combo that worked was Star Metal Cludge, which used the Club proficiency.

It would be nice if the proficiencies applied to all spells - moon blade, deka, spiritual hammer...

Pokota · February 2017

It may have been the result of a mod I was using, but I did have an easier time with flame blade after taking Scimitar.

ThacoBell · February 2017

I'm pretty certain that all summoned weapons act as if proficient, regardless of proficiency.

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Dealing with trolls in Dragon's Eye? Should I have more gold by now?

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