You know, this rings like the other forum, where almost everybody thumbed down the Avenger, but one guy dismissed them all and persisted in proving the Avenger's worth.

Do not feel demoralised if things are not going well for you. If need be, take a rest before you attempt a difficult area. When I was soloing with my Cavalier, I nearly gave up at one point because I failed to defeat a boss more than a dozen times.

I exited the game and took a rest. After a good night sleep, I tried again and nailed the sucker. So have faith and good luck. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I solo'ed an avenger up untill Faldorn .. after that i couldnt resist the lure of an all evil party .. using edwin, Viconia, and later in ToB someone who's been like a brother to me *snif* , gotta love him [img]smile.gif[/img]
Absolute powerhouse of highly specialized characters, representing the best in their field of expertise .. and sharing one; the killing field [img]graemlins/firedevil.gif[/img]

Anywayz, i kinda liked the idea of a druid .. avenger druid in particular .. getting lost in his feelings of vengeance as his powers
-and with them his ability to avenge any wrongdoings towards him-
grew stronger.

Unfortunately it the computer crashed during the final, ascension upgraded, fight with the ToB-endboss .. all my efforts gone :(

One tip:
The greater fire-elemental ( ToB- HLA ) has the ability to speak .. so you can still communicate while shapechanged. Despite that it was a big dissapointment though :(
Those greater elemental-transformations look pretty great on paper, but dont hit anything for any damage in-game :(

I dont think u have 2 reinstall.The EXACT same thing happened to me when i entered those places.And i had no mods at that time. But it only happened 1 time. It happens when you leave athkatla to go somewhere, but i don't remember...Thank god for Autosave!!!
-Brainless One

I've come to a decision.
I'm gonna have to restart the game with different stats. For several reasons.
1) If I have 18 dex, I won't need the bracers. That means I can use the Bracers of AC 3, which is just as good as Aeger's Hide only then I can wear the Ring of Protection +2, use the Helm of Balduran or perhaps the Helm of Glory, the Staff of Curing, and voila! -4 AC! Woo hoo!
2) If I have my horrid dex, and go to face Faldorn, I drop all my equipment. Now, my stats are pretty balanced, so I should do relatively alright... but with my low dex I'll be at 10 AC. Not a good thing.

By the way, before I decided that, I did a few more things...
I picked up the Staff of Curing from the graveyard. Its +2 bonus to AC was a godsend.
I did the Fallen Paladin quest, which was a bit tricky.
I had to summon two Fire Elementals. The Fallen Paladins were all grouped into one area where they had killed the last smuggler, so I positioned my elementals right by them and cast Web in that general area. With my Iron Skins in place I would be able to go one-on-one with Anarg. I casted Doom, then depleted all my Chromatic Orbs on him between my attacks... but they didn't kill him. I put some more Iron Skins in place (I can only cast two per day) and then shapechanged to a sword spider. He quickly fell. By now there were only a few more Fallen Paladins left and my elementals were keeping them quite busy, especially considering their weapons weren't strong enough to damage them, so even if my elementals got Webbed they wouldn't die. The Web wore off, so I moved in for the kill. Poison all around, thud, thud.
Hey, I wonder what Keldorn would say if he found out I sold the honorable Gloves of Healing to the Adventurer's Mart...
Anyway, I was then doing tandem quests... the Littleman-The-Stuffed-Bear quest and the illithium quest. When I went to the Copper Coronet to get the bear I spoke to Unger Hilldark.
Dum de dum... Derilict House. Shouldn't be too hard. All rested and ready, Iron Skins in place...
Ooo, gotta remember to Quicksave... Quick save successful...
What's that noise? The locked door noise. Please, Gond, no! No!
You have failed to force the door.
You have failed to force the door.
You have failed to force the door.
You have failed to force the door.
Faldorn- Casts Lightning Bolt
Faldorn does 37 damage to Commoner
Faldorn does 40 damage to Faldorn
Faldorn does 25 damage to Mrs. Cragmoon
Faldorn- Shapeshifts Spider
Faldorn- Attacks Lt. Aegisfield
Faldorn- Attacks that snooty Councilman in his little estate
Faldorn reloads.
You have failed to force the door.
You have failed to force the door.
You have failed to force the door.
Ah, well.
DAMN THESE LOCKED DOORS! DAMN THESE LOCKED CHESTS!
Thank you.
::halfhearted heroic music::

I thought Faldorn cant have the Bracers and the ring at the same time.Can She??
-Brainless One

Eh..the locks are honestly very annoying. If you want to keep Fadorn and not dual class her into a thief or bard I'd recommend either picking up Nalia or if you want to keep soloing buying some Knock scrolls and doing the potion trick.

That would kind of defeat the purpose of soloing an avenger druid.. And even if I could dualclass her (but I can't as she's a half-elf) all I could make her is a fighter/druid. There are no druid/thieves, and even if there were druid/bards she still wouldn't be able to pick locks.
And I can have as many Knock scrolls as I want.. but a druid can't use them.

You can not dual class a druid at all. This also goes for rangers and paladins iirc.

Incorrect, Druids can be dualled into Fighters, and vice versa. This has been proven, you just need some insane stats, since Druids have two main stats, WIS and CHA.

<font color="gold">A good example on this would be Jaheira. ;)

PS. Illumina, use tjis service to host your screens. Would be fun watching. [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>