Olorin |
07-24-2005 11:53 PM |
I made a trip to Watcher's Keep and cleared the first level before heading to Umar Hills. Did all the minor quests there before resting up for a trip to the Temple. The temple didn't prove too much of a problem. The hardest part was actually the room with the lava floor. I lured the shadow fiends and skelie warriors out into the fire using a character protected from fire. She got their attention with Sunfire, and then I dropped a few fireballs on them. I didn't realize that shadow fiends were immune to fire. First try my bait got paralyzed and chunked. Second try I went for more magic missiles and MMMs to take out the shadow fiends first. With everyone at level 11, there weren't any liches around to deal with. The Shade Lord himself went down quickly, under a barrage of acid arrows, MMMs, and magic missiles.
I leveled up off the final fight, but wanted to try the shadow dragon before resting. This also lead to a couple of reloads. Unfortunately, that level draining breath can hit for a total of 12 levels in one shot if a character fails to save. I tried to draw the breath on my amuleted character, but no luck. The third try, I made one of the saves, so my sorc only got knocked back to level 2.
I opened the battle with three sorcs casting pierce magic off scrolls to knock down the magic resistance. Breach from a fourth for the stoneskin. Then I went to town with magic missiles, a cone of cold, and a couple vampiric touches.
Vampiric touch is turning out to be a *very* useful spell. It always hits, and so far only once have I seen the damage shrugged off due to magic resistance (and even then, you still get the temporary hit points).
The worst part of today was talking to Valygar. Apparently, there is no way for a party of six to do the Planar sphere without killing him. I wish there was an option to arrange for him to meet you there and open the sphere for you.
I guess I'll have to either just resort to killing him or drop my saved game back into multiplayer, remove a member to take Valygar, enter the sphere, then boot Valygar and add my 6th member back in.
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