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pokeygamma · 11-24-2003, 12:43 PM

I used Valygar, boots of speed, Celestial Fury (big damage), Shield of Harmony (can't be dominated), and Ilbratha (can't be held) on weapon switch. The CF+speed allowed me to "cheese" through vast swaths of the game. Harmony and Ilbratha was special gear for mind flayers.

Everyone else gathered some place safe. Valygar stealths, goes in, backstabs with CF, -immediately- runs away if CF fails to stun the flayer. As soon as he's back out of sight, re-stealth. If the flayer or flayers throw any psionics at him, I quickly pause and switch to Ilbratha and keep running. Sometimes flayers/hulks would block a corridor so that I couldn't get behind to backstab; so I'd just frontstab (heh) and run as before.

I also used him to lure flayers out of the fluid chamber (where they spawn every minute) to doors I need them to open, before collaring them. (If he didn't lure them, sometimes the domination was wearing off before the flayer could walk all the way there.)

I never cast Chaotic Commands in my first SoA run. (Though to be fair there were a few points where it would have helped a lot.)

11-24-2003, 12:43 PM	#29
pokeygamma Elite Waterdeep Guard Join Date: October 27, 2003 Location: What kind of location? Age: 53 Posts: 13	I used Valygar, boots of speed, Celestial Fury (big damage), Shield of Harmony (can't be dominated), and Ilbratha (can't be held) on weapon switch. The CF+speed allowed me to "cheese" through vast swaths of the game. Harmony and Ilbratha was special gear for mind flayers. Everyone else gathered some place safe. Valygar stealths, goes in, backstabs with CF, -immediately- runs away if CF fails to stun the flayer. As soon as he's back out of sight, re-stealth. If the flayer or flayers throw any psionics at him, I quickly pause and switch to Ilbratha and keep running. Sometimes flayers/hulks would block a corridor so that I couldn't get behind to backstab; so I'd just frontstab (heh) and run as before. I also used him to lure flayers out of the fluid chamber (where they spawn every minute) to doors I need them to open, before collaring them. (If he didn't lure them, sometimes the domination was wearing off before the flayer could walk all the way there.) I never cast Chaotic Commands in my first SoA run. (Though to be fair there were a few points where it would have helped a lot.)