Okay, done some testing and here are the results:
I used the following (cheated) party
Warden:Mage/Cleric, lvl 50/50, all available Imprisonment spells
Saver:Ranger/Cleric,lvl 50/50, all saves 1
Resister:Ranger/Cleric,lvl 50/50, all resistances 100
Buffer:Fighter/Mage/Cleric, lvl 50/50/50, all available defensive spells
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First for the Imprisonment spells
there are four of them:
- SPWI910 (Imprisonment): standard Wizard spell, long casting time, Touch Range
- SPIN580 (Imprisonment): faster casting time, Touch Range
- SPIN786 (Banishment): visual candy/animation only, long range but does nothing (not even on lvl1 characters)
- SPIN788 (Demilich Trap Soul): The mighty Gaxx's spell, fast casting, ranged but not too far
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Now on the results with the different candidates
Saver: No survival chance with any of the spells (except for Banishment which does nothing anyway)
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Resister: Same thing here, goes bye-bye every time (except for Banishment again)
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Buffer: Survived, when using the following buffs
Arcane
- Spell Trap
- Mass Invisibility
- Spell Turning
- Spell Deflection
- Spell Immunity: Abjuration
- Improved Invisibility
- Invisibilty 15' Radius
- Invisibility
Divine
- Shield of the Archons
- Pixie Dust
- Sanctuary
Survival of
Buffer was tested with standard Imprisonment (SPWI910) and if successful with all the others.
Sidenotes: Invisibility spells can be disabled easily, Shield of the Archons absorbs half your caster level (so you need to be a lvl18 cleric for one spell to be absorbed)
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So basically as a Ranger Cleric you're screwed
If you are high level enough you can try Shield of the Archons, (hope you're not a multi-class). Invisibility will probably be dispelled fast and Sanctuary will only protect you as long as you don't do anything.
There's on hope remaining. If your enemy does not use the Gaxx version you can try to stay out of touch range to avoid the Imprisonment. If he does however you better pray (which probably won't help on a solo/no-reload)
I sincerely hope that I have overlooked something useful, but if not it's gonna be tough/impossible.
[ 10-25-2003, 06:53 PM: Message edited by: Faceman ]