The reason the mantraps don´t know that you can beat them easier at hand to hand is that there are more than one of them. When you stand head to, ehhh, trunk with one there are 2 more behind breathing their nasty breath at you. If you can separate them (which is nearly impossible) they are actually qiute easy to beat in close combat. ;)

Danes never gossip? How dull! Gossip is what makes life worth living. [img]tongue.gif[/img] LMAO!

at least by getting close to the mantraps lowers their chance of using their irritating Breath Attack that damages u wherever u go.....and that's wat makes the mantraps hard to kill and definitely IRRITATING [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img] !!!
btw, has anyone tried fighting 2 or 3 mantraps at the same time (one behind the otehr) and NOT dieing :confused: ???

Fighting that many and not dying? Sure, but not until I've been able to bless some items and get over 100% protection from magic and poison!

Unless you've got that protection, you're toast. My favorite way to take care of them (once you're protected) is to wade into the middle of them and call down a firestorm. Does wonders... [img]smile.gif[/img]

It is possible to fight all four mantraps at once with a solo character with about 100 HP equipped with a plain Katana +1 [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] More precisely, it can happen that you cannot do anything else. You can survive easily if you are well protected from poison and if you are under Merlin's Shield spell. Naturally, a set of Restore Health potions is highly recommended. Kill one mantrap after another, do not try to service all of them together.

Something tells me, Radek, that I would have liked to be a glowbug watching you during that battle! I am suitably impressed!

And you also mentioned the key rule for battles against multiple creatures -- finish off the one you're working on before going to the next one. Get all four of 'em down to one hit point, and they can still hit you just as hard as if they were fully healed. Get one down to four hitpoints, and life is much better.

Yeah, concentrate at one at the time and when it,s down, run like hell heal up and SAVE.

Bless and Heroic might worked wonders for me too. Very few misses if any at all.

C