Once he turns into the demi lich ..it's all over he simply imprisons most of my party. Ive died prolly 25 times. any spoilers for this? or good tactics?
Thanks for any input.

try kill him

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summon as many creatures as you can. eventually he will run out of imprisonments on them, and then you can go for him yourself. i think he can do eight imprisonments, if im not mistaken. also, if you have it, try to use the daystar sword against him, that will mess him up pretty good.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by DM of FAoIW:
try kill him<hr></blockquote>

Shees, that's probably THE most helpfull piece of advice i ever saw and it smells of spam.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Anthem:
Once he turns into the demi lich ..it's all over he simply imprisons most of my party. Ive died prolly 25 times. any spoilers for this? or good tactics?
Thanks for any input.<hr></blockquote>

A few strategies exist. Try a search with Kangaxx and you'll find a lot of threads on that topic. But i'll give you some pointers anyway. Buy prot. from undead scrolls and cast them, also prot. from magic works. If you use prot. from undead, be sure to have one person (the one who places the bodyparts into the sarcophagues, i know, bad spelling) without it. This should be your mage as they can have a spell immunity : abjuration cast on them which protects them from improsonement.

For me the best weapon against him is the upgraded Mace of Disruption (available in chapter 3). He always failed his saving throw.

The best protection against his nasty spells are a protection scroll from Undead or from Magic (available at the Adventurer's Mart). If you have one, he is just a victim.

Another possibility is boosting up Aerie, protecting her by Spell Immunity (Abjuration) and hoping she won't fail her saving throw against Wail of the Banshee.

The reply about summoning and staying FAR away is as good as I can do. Armored skeletons are best, because they're so magic-proof. Don't forget, he won't chase you, especially with 5 armored skeletons smashing his chili-bowl. P.S. (Cheese) you can reimport your mage after they can cast 9th level spells, if you've loaded TOB. Use lotsa Spellstrike and spell trap, with Time-stop thrown in for good measure.

The reply about summoning and staying FAR away is as good as I can do. Armored skeletons are best, because they're so magic-proof. Don't forget, he won't chase you, especially with 5 armored skeletons smashing his chili-bowl. P.S. (Cheese) you can reimport your mage after they can cast 9th level spells, if you've loaded TOB. Use lotsa Spellstrike and spell trap, with Time-stop thrown in for good measure.

the easiest way to take him out once he becomes the demilich is to cast a protection form undead on your best tank, and then hide you other guys in the corners out of the demilich range of sight. then you can just beat on him with the one guys and he wont even know your there due to the protection scroll spell. It may take awhile and you may only do 1-3 damage per hit, but he dies eventually before your prot scroll runs out, then you have your whole party still, and ****spoiler the ring of gaxx. you might have to rest from the fight with the regular lich, but thats nothing compared to trying to get a freedom scroll, then unimprisoning you NPCs. Good luck with him until I figured out the prot scrool, cheat type deal. he just flat out murdered me. there are old threads about this so you can search for those if you want more info. hope this helped a little

Just before he starts to talk and turns himself into a dimilich let Anomen cast blade barrier and protection from undead (scroll)on himself. Let one of your magic users cast improved haste on Anomen and then run away near the stairs with the entire party (exept Anomen off course. This worked for me.

Thanks for all the help..I ended up defeating him with just Korgan and Nalia casting wizrd eye...the demilich just casts away at the eye..havd Korgan go Bezerk..imune to most attacks (including imprisonment)..didnt lose a hit point!!!!

That's right. Wizards eye next to him and he'll be as easy as a sitting duck.

Why everyone ask it from me?! :mad: I haven't defeated him, and it's not needed to defeat him!
i think best is to buy some scrolls and memorize summoning spells. If you are relly powerful, you need to cast time stops(if you can) It would also be good, if you cast farsight, and so see how your creatures fight. If you have a paladin in your group, you can cast Protection from Evil on your party and send some fiends and pit fiends to kill him. It would also be good if you summon djinnies and nishruus and efreeties and elementals. And if your mage doesn't have these spells, buy scrolls.

Solutionsummon, summon and summon again! ;)
Try to defeat him and I try too!!! :D

galdaria, your advice is fatally flawed for two reasons:

kangaxx has _infinite_, long range, fast casting, imprisonments.

magic resistance has absolutley no effect upon imprisonment.

so summoning skeletons, however powerful, is just edlaying the inevitable.

the best thing i would suggest would be a protection from magic scroll on a figher, with a big sword. armour is irelevant, as lichs are pathetic at best in hand to hand, not that he'll try while hes using imprisonment on you.

plus, could a demi-lich even _exist_ inside a sphere of anti-magic?

Use a berserker! (namely Korgan)

If anyone else mentioned this, sorry, but I didn't see it.

When you use the berserk skill, you have until it wears off to kill Kangaxx (isn't it like a minute?), as berserk makes you immune to EVERYTHING, even imprisonment. Use whatever weapon you want after that, and have your mages charged up on Melf's Minute Meteors and hit him from a distance. If you have it, Ring of the Ram worked to finish him off I think.

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Ahhh, the good old Kangaxx-quest. First it's worthy killing him, because you'll get one of the most powerful items within the game. How? In his Demi-Lich-Form you can only hit him with at leas +4 weapons, and the upgraded Mace of Disruption. I think the Mace is the best, cause he always fails the saving throw. But, if you have Minsc or Korgan in your party, try Enrage or Bezerk, and the Imprisonment spells wont affect them. If you are low level (chapter 2), try the Staff of Rhynn. He was one of the first quests I did in chapter 2. Wizards Eye also helps. Dont try to cast any spells upon him cause he has 100% Magic Resitance. Good Luck...