The improved Irenicus in Hell, with the solaufain mod .... [img]graemlins/crying.gif[/img] !! help !!

I just barely managed to defeat the first group, thinking it was the only one... and i REALLY didnt like the surprise after that. Oh .. and somehow i can only choose to NOT turn into the slayer, bug ? (rep.= 11, neutral evil )

party:
me - cleric/mage 19/17
Tichondrius - sorcerer 22
Edwin -mage 22

The first wave of enemies ( dragon, irenicus, sarevok, beholder ) is managable, except for Sarevok .. since magic cant hurt him and he's VERY hard to hit. ( Timestops seem shorter, I cant unleash enough Energy-discs before its over, and in real-time i cant hit him with the discs 'cause of THACO ).

Any thoughts .. or stories on how you got throught the fight(s) ?

Oh .. and a special for Dundee, have you soloed this part with a sorcerer yet ?
[img]tongue.gif[/img] Im all ears :D

[ 10-04-2002, 07:29 AM: Message edited by: daan ]

Read the Mod's README file.
It offers plenty of tactics and tips about this battle (it contains the tactic i used).

Where can I find this mod?? Sounds pretty cool.

Thx Alson .. dunno which website anymore though

My BG2 gaming is on hiatus at the moment actually. I am enjoying a action-filled romp through IWD:HoW+TotL now. I really want to see what TotL has to offer and besides, I have not completed IWD in Heart of Fury mode yet.

At least now I will be able to cast those level 9 spells... ...

try lower resistance to lower Sarevok magic resist, then cast slow on him...and other enchantment spell that will help. He will then become very weak.
Well...I think Irenicus the mage is more hard than Irenicus the slayer.

No problem.
Do you need a link to the Sola Mod?
Here you go.

lower sarevoks resistance ? .. that's a little hard considering he has a permanent Protection from Magic-bulb around him :(

For the Wraith of Sarevok, use the Project Image cheese to gate in about 5 Planetars.
Have each Planetar cast Globe of Blades.
They should kill him.

Just be careful not to let the Planetar's GoBs hurt each other or it will set a chain reaction of hostile Planetars... ...

Too bad it is not like IWD where it is okay to hurt your summon(s).

Good point Dundee!

How is IWD2, by the way(In coparision to BG2+ToB?)?
Have you played it?

I'm thinking of buying it.. I am a big fan of tactical combat, and i've heard that IWD2 scripting is waaay better than BG2 scripting, which must result in a better AI and more complex tactics.

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I did it !!!!
And none of my party-members suffered a single point of damage .. haha
Dont worry, you dont have to read what's below, its a little dry, even more so 'cause i have no screenies, but i felt the need to write ;)

(Seriously) My knees/hands were shaking the entire battle,..
which took 20 - 30 minutes real time i think.

Of all the pre-fight summons, only the planetar didnt unsummon when the fight started :( Gone two 16 HD elementals and 2 wizard eyes guarding the place.

Anywayz, nothing lost .. since 2 of my 4 sorcerers active PI's were allready casting time stop. Edwin was starting too position himself too.

-1st Time-stop, followed by IA + wizard eye, resulting in a dead dragon and a wish-spell that rememorized all spells.
-Not a second later PI-2 2nd Time-stop , resulting in a Badly damage Irenicus.
- Wraith sarevok reaches edwin just as his Time-stop kicks in ... 40 energy discs and another time-stop later, he's badly injured.
-5 th Time-stop from 3rd PI .. beholder shows up in sight, I kill Irenicus and miscalculate the beholders HP .. leaving him only badly injured.

Black razor reminds me of his presence by hitting my planetar.

4th PI casts Time-stop ... beholder+ Black razor die. I spam a few wishes,
which improved hasts my party, maxes all their stats and rememorizes all their spells.

Edwin tries to cast time-stop, but sarevok hits him. My sorcerer casts
time-stop, spams wishes and spams Sword spiders to block sarevok's way.
It works, edwin casts Time-stop + energy disc and Sarevok falls.

*Irenicus-slayer*

Beginning is rough ... i manage to get to my equipment, while the sword spiders block Irenicus'way. As soon as my stoneskin and mirror Image are up, I cast PfMW, and then holy power, another THAC0 enhancement spell, PfMW and after that ghost armor and holy might + improved haste.
Irenicus doenst last more than 5 secs after that.

*sorcerer Irenicus*

Describing all the spells I threw his way would be too much work ..
but those that worked were:
8 RRoR
6 Pierce shield
12 Insect plague

After 10 minutes of Time-stops, wishes and equal spell-barrages between Irenicus and me, finally all his protections except the fire-shields go down.
Immediatly 4 planetars cast 4 insect plague's ... and -totally unexpected- in less than a second his defences suddenly fall and he blows up into little chunks of meat. Very surreal, i didnt even realize what happened ... after his death 3 time-stops of 3 PI's follow in rapid succesion.. guess that overdid it a little, I just use the time for wish-spamming.

I got to give it to that last Irenicus .. he outlived 8 planetars,.. and outright Killed 2 elemental princes with just his fire-shield.

[img]tongue.gif[/img] I never felt so good about a fight before, thumbs up to the creator

[ 10-04-2002, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: daan ]

Congratulations, daan. I see you used the tactic of casting Wish during the battle as well. Some of the comments had me laughing, a very good fight all in all.

I wonder how the fella who made a party of 6 Sorcerers fared?

To Alson:

I am playing IWD1 [img]smile.gif[/img] I just downloaded Trials of the Luremaster which is the free expansion to Heart of Winter which is the expansion of IWD. I never got to play IWD in detail before and I am taking the opportunity to do it now. I want to max a character darnit! And be able to claim that I completed it in Heart of Fury mode( an Insane Insane Difficulty if you will. Monsters have 8* more Hp, better THACO and AC and give extreme Xp. I gained a level killing beetles in the basement at the start of the game. The beetles kill in one hit so I had to use Quarterstaffs to poke them to death).

The funny thing is... Priests are UBER in IWD, Bards are worshipped by the players( War Chant of Sith! *drool* Able to memorise and cast level 8 spells!), Paladins and Rangers are fantastic( able to cast level 6 Priest spells!), while Mages are... mediorce( *sob*). [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Its actually 3X+80 Hp, and 4X+2000XP. I dont know how THAC0 is changed.

Why does everyone use the letter O instead of the number 0 in THAC0?

Because everyone pronounce it "THA-CO" rather than "THAC-ZERO". [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I pronounce it "To hit" (it was what my mum used to say-she played DnD and apprently it was just To Hit there so she called it as such when she converted to BG series [img]smile.gif[/img]

Cool. Thanks a lot Alson [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/cheers.gif[/img]

No problem. [img]smile.gif[/img]