I recall that in BG1, there was some speculation that the difficulty of the final battle with Sarovok would increase exponentially each time you died-reloaded-tried again. After a few failed tries, the battle would become so difficult that it was pointless even to try.

The reason I bring it up is that a couple of nights ago I experienced something odd in ToB. I was battling Draconis and made some serious mistakes that got my little six pack killed. I reloaded and tried again, only to get several party members chunkified. On my third try, Draconis was so overwhelmingly powerful that nothing I did could even scratch him. My tried and true "time stop-improved alacrity-drop the hammer" tactic failed to lower his health in the slightest and my party quickly got slaughtered.

I quit in frustration only to try again, last night. This time, I killed him quickly and efficiently. Make me wonder what was going on. Do the battles become more difficult after a reload?

No they don`t. It just seems like sometime becuase one doesn`t have the right tactics to defeat certain enemie.

I'm not kidding, Xen, he was freakin' invulnerable. I usually beat down dragons with no trouble.

I'm not kidding, Xen, he was freakin' invulnerable. I usually beat down dragons with no trouble. </font>[/QUOTE]No,no. You was just too messy with the tactics. Or had a one time bug. :rolleyes:

The computer is not smart enough to make the enemies use progressively smarter tactics after each Reload. What was the case in BG1 was that, if you Reloaded in a wilderness area, the monsters that were set to randomly spawn in that area would <u>respawn</u>--so the 2nd batch appears, whether you killed the 1st batch or not. So, a Level 4 party shows up, runs into a group of 4 Black Talon Elites, and the party's Mage gets killed. Reload. Oops, now there are *8* Black Talons, we got our collective but whooped. Reload. Hey, wait, now there are *12* of them! Hellllpppp!!!!

BG2 does not use this Reload-respawning technique, at least not to my knowledge. What is more likely is that on your 2nd & 3rd attempts on Draconis, you simply suffered bad timing--your spells kapt failing due to his Invisibility, which meant you couldn't tear his protections down, etc.

I'm not kidding, Xen, he was freakin' invulnerable. I usually beat down dragons with no trouble. </font>[/QUOTE]No,no. You was just too messy with the tactics. Or had a one time bug. :rolleyes: </font>[/QUOTE]Something like this couldn't be a bug, it's just not possible AFAIK.

The only thing with ToB is that respawns are a lot more common than in SoA (remember Sendai's Enclave ;) ) which may be hard to get used to for the first time.