[Dakkon Darkblade]

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Anwyay, I was able to beat the Improved Melissan Battle once with my six characters, but I had to turn down the difficulty a tad, which it talks about in the readme.. since the battle is purposefully scalable. I did find out some interesting tactics while doing it, and when I get TOB working again I'll go and finish my battle right.

I had Balthazar on my team, which is a GREAT help mind you... I was Chaotic Good, and what you have to do is just convince him to join you instead of the other two endings to his battle, which are he kills himself, or he fights you. He tried killing himself for what seemed like forever... but I finally got through his stupid dialogue and recruited him. He is a strong mofo.

Anyway, if you're evil you can recruit Bohdi to your side from what I've seen and read in the readme... I couldn't find a way to do it being good, and she just told me off whenever I tried... but she doesn't like her brother and turns on him for that battle. Anyway, on to the final battle.

A big help is knowing that every time you kill a Bhaalspawn Melissan is WEAKENED. By weakened I mean she takes 100, yes I said 100 damage and goes unconscious for a very long time.... though I could have just stunned her, who knows. That only happens once she comes out for the last time, after you kill two of her little Bhallspawn friends. The Bhaalspawn you fight in the normal battle are Illasera, Yaga-Shura, Abazigal (Who doesn't turn into a dragon, so take him out early, because he's a pain), Sendai ( Who's really dumb, go send a guy after her and she'll be taken care of), and (if you haven't recruited him) Balthazar. *My* battle included both Gromnir Il-Khan, and also Sarevok. Kill Sarevok... he's easy. Gromnir enrages so you can't stop him that well. I suggest using the spell Maze for like Illsera... you think she's easy, but that stupid bow of hers really kills... casting miscast magic on every hit and doing like 20-30 damage... and she keeps going invisible! Ugh! Anyway, kill a couple of them, Yaga-shura save for later... in fact just either enfeeble him, maze him, stun him, or slow him, and you're fine. He has over 400 life and you have to poke him for like 2 at a time to get him down. So you'll have I believe 6 guys to start, kill 2, then she comes and starts to wail. Forget about her, or try and keep her occupied, what you need to do is kill more Bhallspawn.. for as I said, it weakens her. Then keep doing it, until she's down low on life. When you kill her in her immortal form, and hopefully she doesn't heal herself all the way like she's prone to do, she becomes mortal with all her health again... but no Bhallspawn... just stun her or slow her and wail again... she's yours. Tada!