[Dar'tanian]

Originally posted by Buster_Wiz: yes, their level drain is pretty formidable for a new party.... do you have any way to get negative plane protection? I.E. amulet of power, clerical spell, ect. If so, you can put negative plane protection(this will protect from level drain) on your best fighter, OR your mage(assuming you still have your warning from the cowled wizards remaining I.E. have never used magic in the city streets, because you will need it to throw up spells in combat, or if you know when the vampires will trigger, you can throw up arcane buffs indoors), and have your mage put up stoneskins (4th level spell), and mirror image (2nd level I believe)and have him absorb the vampires hits while your tanks hack away at the undead menace. There is also a very simple way to kill vampires of that level (or seriously wound them) and that is obtaining a weapon named Daystar and using its innate sunray ability, the daystar is obtained in Spoiler ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The inn in the city gates district (the name escapes me, something crane I think), go inside and eventually you will detect a secret door that leads to a battle with a lich. However, you can have a thief go invisible, go pick the lock on the chest and grab daystar before the lich starts blasting you (IIRC, not only is this weapon deadly to undead, one of its abilities is a once per day spell called sunray, which will SERIOUSLY hurt all undead creatures. Barring these two options you really are fairly limited, you could try hasting your whole party and praying, or hasting your party and equiping everyone with ranged weapons and hope you get lucky.....

Using Negatve plane protection counts at as a spell and the cowled wizards will warn you for it. But that would be a good tactic out side of Athkatal.

Name of the building is crooked crane [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 11-09-2003, 01:12 AM: Message edited by: Dar'tanian ]