Trust me, playing a solo blade will get easier in the end. I'm doing exactly same thing at the moment, have already gone through the Underdark... And you wanna know what the hardest battles were? The ones which involve mind-affecting spells, like confusion.
While I've killed several liches and dragons without too much trouble, I've got my ass majorly kicked by *gasp* Myconid. Reminds me I still have to find a scroll of Wizard's Eye somewhere, so my Skeleton Warriors will actually hit the Spore Colonies instead of all the Myconid spawn next time around. By the time my skeleton warriors took on the first Spore Colony (and get overwhelmed a few moments later), there were suddenly like 15 myconid to worry about instead of just a few. I managed to defeat them in the end, though; and I *had* to, as while using improved invisibility did the trick of getting past them into the Svirfneblin village, during one of the drow quests Solaufein was waiting for me in the middle of the Myconid spawn beds for crying out loud, and by the time I arrived at his location, he was already dead and I was being uncovered as a traitor because of the lack of Solaufein to continue the Drow quests. Where's Biff the Understudy when you need him?
I'm sure there's a very obvious way to block those mind-affecting spells, other than those potions of magical blocking I believe (?) which run out too fast. I'm sure the solution is extremely obvious, I just can't come up with it. Anyone?
I'm level 30 at the moment, btw. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Oh, and as for the party in the sewers: you don't *have* to do that battle; just take a detour and you'll be able to reach the secret entrance to the mage's lair without running into them; you could always come back for them later. [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 02-17-2003, 09:27 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]