drizzit is an unstoppable drow elf as we all know.

Let's face it. The finest warrior or mage cannot beat him fairly. I've tried to kill him 3 times and only wounded him once with my well built fighter

some people claim to have killed him.

Please tell me how this can be done lol.

Also, can anybody tell me where Volo is in BGI?

The only way he can be killed is by abusing the game engine / poor AI. There is no way of killing him that even remotely resembles anything that can be put into a fanfiction.

An example of how that couldn't be done:

.....yeah.

About a year ago, some guy with only a few dozen posts to his name claimed to have beaten Drizzt in a fair fight, without any cheesy abuses at all, with a Level 1/2 party. That is the only time I have flat-out called someone a liar on Ironworks.

Well, that was rightly said Six! I have tried Dizzt with a fully stocked up, strong (and legitimate) party, and still he thwarts me!

--Kestrel--

thanks sixofspades

is he killable in BG2? I can't remember now. The powerful weapons in BG2 do allow you to become very powerful... more so than drizzt?

<font color = lightgreen>Why bother comparing yourself to Drizzt? That would be like asking if someone could be smarter than Sherlock Holmes--since they are literary characters, they are not bound by the same laws of reality that limit us.

Bottom line, in BG1 unless you abuse the game engine or create you own special items, Drizzt is unkillable--his "off-hand" attack is a special ability that always deals 30 points of damage and never misses, so in 2 or 3 hits you're dead.</font>

i was just wondering if it can be done

his items would make him worth killing in BG1 but as is correctly mentioned it's almost impossible without a bit of cheese.
Here's how I did it with my lawful evil monk (BGT mod) and how it could be done with a rogue or a ranger (vanilla BG1).
It is a rather cheesy way but there is a justifieable explanation for Drizzt's behaviour in that so you could do it with only a minor guilt trip ;)
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">WHILE drizzt=alive DO
BEGIN
Hide in Shadows;
Backstab; {mainly for the THAC0 bonus}
flee out of sight;
END</pre>[/QUOTE]You'll need some speed-enhancing item/potion to outrun him and it'll take some time, but you get some nice equipment and the pleasure to have <strike>beaten</strike> assasinated the mighty Drow ;)
Although I won't contend that this tactic stinks of Appenzeller I could try to explain ;)
PC - backstab
Drizzt - "Why you little..." "Come back here"
PC - runs and hides
Drizzt - "I'll get you next time"
...

I've heard that you can beat him if you keep him distracted long enough with a wand of monster summoning and a lot of arrows of biting.

I always play goody two shoes, so I don't attack him. I only pick his pocket for a scimitar +3. ;) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

i wasted a whole quiver on drizzt and non got through. I had some frost arrows but only 1/20 actually hit him...

faceman, you must have reloaded many times to have accomplished that because drizzt's armour class is so low even a backstab will miss more often than not.

not to be skeptical... but i'd like to see a screen shot of you standing around his corpse [img]smile.gif[/img]

I have killed him before twice. I won't go into detail, as I made threads about it. But one of those times was with bgt, which I'm fairly sure would have affected things in some way.

You can read up on my exploits in my solo monk story. I did not have to reload since the tactic is an infinite loop. You don't need to hit him every time. The only problem are Critical Misses in which case Drizzt will be able to strike back immediately before you can run away. In that case you have to gulp some potions to get back to full health before you continue, but it IS a surefire way.

I did it but I forget how. ^^;

It had something to do with luring him out towards a lake and attacking him with a volley of arrows when erm. . .his pathfinding went wonky. .

few arrows can hit

i did it this morning. I didn't save it ofcoarse, i am not worthy of that XP for killing him [img]tongue.gif[/img]

i used gatekeeper just to test it out, i boosted by strength to 25 and dexterity to 25, and THACO to 0. Hit him every time and made him into nothing, though without cheating it is not possible (that is if you consider dirty tactics cheating as i do)

1 man hasted, 5 others with arrows

lots of running, lots of shooting

thats how you kill drizzt

i dont care what you call me, i did it, with all my players using missiles, mage continuously casting summon monstors with spells and wands, eventually you will hit him. admittadly i survived with my pc because he was the mage and he was the furthest away, minsc also survived with hardly any hp, call me a liar if you want i dont care

They wont consider you a liar, Timothy, they just consider you cheesey! ;) This is a cheese tactic that's been mentioned several times. [img]smile.gif[/img]

it aint cheesy, its smart, booting people from oyur party and killing him that way is cheesy

It's cheesy because anyone with half a brain (which is at least as much as Drizzt is reputed to have) would be smart enough to attack the Mage, not the creatures summoned by the Mage. Now, this would not be a cheesy tactic against Skeletons or Golems, because they're all as dumb as a post. But an intelligent creature is smart enough to recognize the real target....or run all the way around a pond, for that matter.

Timothy, if your fight took place in Salvatore's novels, then Drizzt would fling a few daggers into your mage, dive into a forward roll past the flailing mass of summoned creatures, shred Minsc with hardly a thought along with any other tanks, then end the life of your entire remaining party. Being an intelligent warrior, he would probably evade the summoned monsters, knowing that they would dissappear before long.

Oh, and he wouldn't be alone. He may just fight the summoned monsters, knowing that Cattie-Brie will plug your mage full of arrows from her hiding spot :D

funny enough it wasn't in the novels, it was in BG1. no drizzt count attack the mage because he was packed in by summoned monsters, so it aint cheese

Cheese in this instance is defined by exploiting the game engine to achieve something that could not happen in Faerun proper. The "real" Drizzt would never fall from tactics like this... Hence, it's considered cheese.

Well if we look at it that way then 95% of things that happen in the game are cheese.

Drizzt wouldnt be able to run at the mage if he is surrounded completely by summoned monsters. So I think that tactic is not cheese

I find it strange that the tactic of the island is not posted yet... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Well, if you go nort to the lake there's an island which you can put missile people with a lot of missiles, not necessarily magic. Then have some char ( not PC ) attack Drizzt, and then try to reach the side of the lake before he kills you, and then let the firing begin. Kivan killed him in my game. But really, Drizz't would normally be smart enoguh to keep away from the fire or go find the island bridge... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

i like cheese on nachos with meat and other assorted topings

timmy it IS cheesing!!

you are taking advantage of an artificial AI, not to mention that only a conjurer in reality would have the ability to sumon more than a few monsters to the field. I have beaten gorion by simply bombarding him with sumonings. What you did was cheesing.

The real drizzt would hit each of your summonings in a spinning whirl of furry and probably take out a monster per second (or less). Also he would fight his way to the mage, run him through, then strike minsc 4 times before he even hit the ground girgling on his own blood.

it is cheating. also, he could probably have chucked a semitar at your mage and nailed him between the eyes the second that he saw an opening between your monsters = bye bye mage.

i believe you did it, but not that you did it fairly. why can't you accept that without taking advantage of the AI or exploiting the fact that there are no summoning restrictions in BG, that Drizzt is unbeatable.

also, could somebody give me some background history of Drizzt. Like who he is, why he was in baldur's gate. His role in any novels or other black isle games (if there are any)

thanks

P.S.
Timmy i replied to your post on the previous page

[ 01-11-2005, 07:28 PM: Message edited by: Rockstar ]

I defeated Drizzt the usual cheesy way. Lots of summons, LOTS of arrows.

I had BG1-Ease of Use, so I managed to have hundreds of unenchanted arrows at hand.

Heheh, have you not heard of Drizzt? The famous drow ranger, follower of Mielikki, champion of Icewind Dale?

Well, there are many novels that are writen, that tell tales of Drizzt's exploits and adventures. If you go here, the official website of the author of the novels. You should be able to find out quite abit.

Other games he has been in are Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (PS2 and Xbox) and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II (also PS2 and Xbox)

Hope that helped


--Kestrel--

why is it such a big deal? really. if hes stuck inbetween monsters, he cant get to my party, ZFR is right, it aint cheese. oh and also rockstar, it seems that drizt cannot throw his schimitars, as they are melee weapons, not throwing. its not my fault bioware didnt give him any missile wepons, if hes such a great warrior he should have some shouldnt he...

You don't understand. A real character would be able to dodge and weave and shove his way through monsters. Drizzt's sprite can't do that because of limitations in the engine.

well then, timmy trotter. If lots of summonings isn't cheese then why did bioware reduce the amount of summonings to 5? only the greatest conjurer would be able to produce the amount you can in BGI.

I bet you cannot beat him in BGtutu, where the rules were updated to eliminate some cheese and see how you take him on with only 5 summonings.

Even with an army of sumonings drizzt would be able to dodge and shove them which is something the great (but also linear) game engine does not allow, as well as the AI.