It is outside of the FAI wall on the southern (front) side, under the first bluish colored pine tree (like a Christmas tree) that you come upon if you walk due east from the gate. It is very small, so you have to move your cursor very slowly and carefully around the base of the tree. The coordinates are x=2555, y=3759 (hit the L key to display x, y coordinates of your cursor).

i played my main character mage and i was looking foward to using animate dead (seen a friend use it at a high level for skeleton WARRIORS)but the bastard stopped getting levels just before, i knew the spell and all, just needed to memorize it and then i just stopped at 89000 exp, and the scroll only makes normal skeletons which just suck

In BG2 skeleton warriors become available at level 15. (since dynaheir (my mage) is an invoker i never checked the BG 1 version). anyway, thats _way_ beyond the BG1 cap, even with TotSC. But they do rock when you get them.

If you get a mage to get minor globe of invulnerability, then enemy mages are practically dirt you can walk on because in baldurs gate1, all the spells (i think) except maybe lvl 4 are nothing to globe of invulneribility.

heh, forgot to answer, mages freakin rock! If it wasnt for Xzar and all his spells, I would have never gotten past the Battle Horrors at the end of Claokwood quest. He just ran around the room, turn around melf, magic missiles, agganzar, or some other spell I would never have beaten it cuz it was so hard. Now, if a mage(Xzar) can beat up two Battle Horrors, they can kick anything buttocks!

The battle horror story was about XZar, who IS a mage.

Mages are brilliant. They are without question the most powerful characters. You can be anything you like while being a mage. Feel like being a fighter? Cast Tenser's Transformation. Want thief skills? There's invisibility and knock. They're just great, so versatile and interesting.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Biggs Antillies:
i played my main character mage and i was looking foward to using animate dead (seen a friend use it at a high level for skeleton WARRIORS)but the bastard stopped getting levels just before, i knew the spell and all, just needed to memorize it and then i just stopped at 89000 exp, and the scroll only makes normal skeletons which just suck<hr></blockquote>

You need to add Tales of the Sword Coast then! That increases the cap to 161,000 (making it possible to reach mage level 9 and thereby getting one level 5 spell slot) and gives you a bunch of new spells (for both wizards and clerics). It also gives you four new quests/areas and more advanced weapons and armor.

At the very least, even without ToSC install the XP cap remover or the level 50 rules pack.

Gnome! Necromancry spells aren't that importain in BG1 except ghost armor. Gnomes get extra spells! With armor and mirror image at level 9 my gnome could solo enemies just use magic well soloing... fear and such are extremely powerful spells if used right.

I am a solo Mage/Cleric, and I'm doing pretty well.
You can hold persons, entangle them then cast spells.

Also, if you're not a mage and cannot use the Ring of Wizardry, it's worth 9000 Gold. A good thing to have on your way as a warrior for buying good equipment.

Then you got the Ring of Protection. It do help your armor, and you need all of it as a mage.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Worm:
...fear and such are extremely powerful spells if used right.<hr></blockquote>

The wands of fear and sleep would be indispensable when soloing, I would think. Watch about 95% of an enemy hoard attacking you turn yellow and collapse in a dead faint!

Do tell. I found myself carting some Sleep scrolls around when I got jumped by a big knot of Ogres, Ogre Berserkers, Ogrillions, and Half-Ogres (I guess it was their Pledge Week or something). One Sleep spell later, there were about 3 of them left standing. The corpses were in such a small pile, I just had to take a screenshot. [img]smile.gif[/img]

For a Level 1 spell, Sleep ROCKS. At least against low-level enemies--too bad there's no Improved Sleep that's tougher to Save against....or is that already covered by Emotion-Hopelessness?