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This guy got buffed immensely with SCS.
His spellbook is filled with lots of deadly magic and even in melee he's on par with my best warriors.
I can beat him, sure. But it it always takes a bit of luck, cheese and reloading.
How do you deal with him (mid level party tactics prefered)
The guy in question:
http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Kahrk 1 ·
Yamcha
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- Wand of Paralysis - Ignores invisibility. It has a very low success rate but pretty much wins the fight immediately when it works.
- Polymorph Self -> Mustard Jelly. Proceed to laugh in his face.
- Skeleton Warriors - almost immune to magic and resistant to slashing damage. Even so, it takes about three or four to tank him while the rest of the party pelts him with missiles.
- Inquisitor. True Sight + Dispel Magic makes a joke out of him.
- Boring cheap way - kill him with an Arrow of Slaying.
Eventually just set traps on spawn location. Hopefully not a no reload game; the L key is worn out.
This guy and then the 4 dwarven spirit warriors on the first basement level of Durlag's tower are for me the most difficult challenges in BGEE with SCS. Nothing else even comes close to those two battles.
1) Traps in my way back. Just in case.
2) Oil of Speed + Potion of Invisibility
3) Potion of Clarity. You know, just in case.
4) Detect Illusion + Arrow of Dispelling + Arrow of Slaying.
Proceed with loot.
Question, does the arrow of slaying auto hit and give a saving throw? A 2nd question, do dispelling arrows auto-hit?
And by the way, made a test: you don't need to dispel his protections. If your hit roll with the AoS is a hit the ogre mage will drop dead.
Edit: Thinking better about your question, IDK if AoS is auto-hit. There was a hit roll, but the game may be tricked my Thac0 bonus to assure a hit. The AoD, in other hand, can miss. In the test I've mentioned the shot with the AoD was a miss and with the AoS was a hit.
Target: Self (1)
Power: 0
IDS target: EA.IDS - 2 / ANYONE - 0
Timing mode: Instant/While equipped (2)
Dispel/Resistance: No dispel/bypass resistance (0)
Duration: 0
Probability 1: 100
Probability 2: 0
Resource: CDOMGHIT.EFF
# dice thrown/maximum level: 0
Dice size/minimum level: 0
Save type: ( No save )
Save bonus: 0
Unknown: 00 00 00 00 h
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No thac0 bonus, do those bold lines implicate armor bypass too?
He is cake with that arrow, very difficult without it with SCS.
Next you can use Agannazar's scorchers (wand) to kill Kahrk.
This will become even more easier if you have a thief, who can detect illusions to remove Improved Invisiblity and mirrors. And generally many other SCS fights also.
1) Made him appear and...
2) Tiax sent his ghast as a folder cannon to keep Kahrk busy until Charname's...
3) Detect Illusion kicks in -> His Mirror Image was gone and Charname was able to land an...
4) Arrow of Dispelling -> Applied the WS miscast magic and exposing him completely so the rest of the party kept...
5) Hitting him with the point/sharp/blunt end of whatever they were using until he stops moving.
By the way: i) if you're playing a WS and are not carrying AoD, you're playing it wrong; ii) Thief -> WS is way more powerful than I ever imagined, especially due to the fact that I maximized Detect Illusion before dualing (actually, that was the only skill I invested).