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Originally posted by Kish:
Just for the record, all spells being forcecast is an aspect of the difficulty setting, and Sendai and her images having infinite spells is the result of all spells being forcecast (Forcecasting doesn't remove spells from memory). If you were playing on Core or below, neither of these would be the case.
Her reinforcements are 22nd level fighters with 18/50 Strength, 13 Dexterity, and 12 Constitution, 130 hit points, and three HLAs (Hardiness, Whirlwind, and Greater Whirlwind). They have fairly standard drow equipment, ** in Two-Handed Weapon Style, and Grand Mastery in the halberds they use. I wouldn't call this ultrapowerful; I would expect Sarevok or a PC fighter to mow right through them, and two Dragon's Breaths should be enough to reduce the number of Drow Elite Guards all the way from however many are in the area of the spell to 0.
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Yes, I'm aware that the mod admits to outright cheating and throwing all sense of fairness out the window on Hard and Insane, but I still don't see how that makes it justifiable. People playing on Insane are certainly asking for a greater challenge, but that doesn't mean they're asking for cheating opponents with absoloutely zero adherence to the rules that everyone else have to abide by.
About the drow fighters, they may look average on paper, I don't know. As I've already mentioned in the report though, it took 4 of them 2 seconds to rip apart my 50th level Cleric, armed and armoured to the teeth. That was with 230 HP, -18 AC vs Slashing, and 45% Physical dmg resistance. They aren't overly hard to kill. It's just that they are capable of causing an immense amount of pain every second they live with their rock bottom THAC0s and GWW, and that makes it very hard to deal with the constant reinforcements. You just don't have time to recover.
Of course, I'm speaking from the perspective of a soloist. Balanced parties probably have a much better fighting chance in this battle, and I guess that that is what it was designed for.
[ 02-27-2004, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: Rataxes ]