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Rockstar · 04-06-2006, 08:45 AM

Balthazar: I TSA the guards out the front before healing and resting to prepare (buffed with spirit armour and stone skin as usual). I entered his palace then after a chat did a victorious TSA: x3 lower resist, a spell trigger (x3 lower resist), spell sequencer (x3 skull traps), x3 skull traps, then moved away and cast 2 ADHW before time restarts. Takes him to near death and a final ADHW killed him. all 5 down! but a new enemy is revealed. Melissan is the true enemy and solar revealed that she is a high preastess of Bhaal but aims to take everything for herself. Solar revealed my final challenge… the ravager…

Battle the Ravager: OK this is THE hardest battle by far in the game (excluding the final battle which I have yet to attempt). The ravager has ultra high magic resistance and is immune to lower resist spells and any other buff removing spells are ineffective against him. This means that I must single handedly kill him via melee… but who says summons can’t help. I died a couple of times using my usual summoning layout but in the end I just was circling around the ravager and his bone blades slinging at him, missing half the time and only doing 5 damage when I’m guessing he has well over 150 hp so it was quite futile. I needed a new strategy … he seemed unbeatable… I am the greatest mage in the farum! nothing cannot be beaten… all will fall to me!

Time to rethink my spell list… I need summonings so I maxed all level 5 spells with skeleton warriors, all level 7 spells with mordenkein’s swords and all level 9 with gate. Both the gate fiends and swords are immune to the bone blade attacks and my staff of the magi has protection from evil so I am safe from the fiend… I also need a way to hit him with my melee and sling attacks. I fill my level 6 spells half with tensors transformation and the other with improved haste. Improved haste doubles my attacks per round to 2 and tensors transformation significantly reduces my THACO so I hit practically every time rather than missing ¾ shots.

Battle begins. I immediately cast gate in front of the ravager. I dash round the back of him and summon a sword. I lured the fiend away from the ravager and the bone blades kept following the pit fiend leaving the ravager in the open attacking my sword. I cast improved haste then tensors transformation and start hitting away. I got many hits in then the my sword unsummoned and the fiend died, sending all the blades towards me! I cannot use my spells because the tensor spell is still working! I run around the outside slinging bullets in a hit and run fassion till I can recast a mordenkeins sword to divert their attention then repeat the process by recasting gate to lure the bone blades away and then running up to the solo ravager (who is attacking the fiend and not me of coarse ) and then imp haste and tensor’s transformation to take him well past half way. I repeated the process again and got him to near death but then he started facing me (but I still had the bone blades stalled with a couple of swords). I knew these swords would unsummon soon and then I’d be screwed coz they would all be onto me and I can’t cast spells! so I dashed back and used +4 bullets on him. He was throwing knives at me but my stoneskin still stood strong till a final +4 bullet to the head took him down… victory!!!

04-06-2006, 08:45 AM	#4
Rockstar Zhentarim Guard Join Date: January 4, 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 300	Balthazar: I TSA the guards out the front before healing and resting to prepare (buffed with spirit armour and stone skin as usual). I entered his palace then after a chat did a victorious TSA: x3 lower resist, a spell trigger (x3 lower resist), spell sequencer (x3 skull traps), x3 skull traps, then moved away and cast 2 ADHW before time restarts. Takes him to near death and a final ADHW killed him. all 5 down! but a new enemy is revealed. Melissan is the true enemy and solar revealed that she is a high preastess of Bhaal but aims to take everything for herself. Solar revealed my final challenge… the ravager… Battle the Ravager: OK this is THE hardest battle by far in the game (excluding the final battle which I have yet to attempt). The ravager has ultra high magic resistance and is immune to lower resist spells and any other buff removing spells are ineffective against him. This means that I must single handedly kill him via melee… but who says summons can’t help. I died a couple of times using my usual summoning layout but in the end I just was circling around the ravager and his bone blades slinging at him, missing half the time and only doing 5 damage when I’m guessing he has well over 150 hp so it was quite futile. I needed a new strategy … he seemed unbeatable… I am the greatest mage in the farum! nothing cannot be beaten… all will fall to me! Time to rethink my spell list… I need summonings so I maxed all level 5 spells with skeleton warriors, all level 7 spells with mordenkein’s swords and all level 9 with gate. Both the gate fiends and swords are immune to the bone blade attacks and my staff of the magi has protection from evil so I am safe from the fiend… I also need a way to hit him with my melee and sling attacks. I fill my level 6 spells half with tensors transformation and the other with improved haste. Improved haste doubles my attacks per round to 2 and tensors transformation significantly reduces my THACO so I hit practically every time rather than missing ¾ shots. Battle begins. I immediately cast gate in front of the ravager. I dash round the back of him and summon a sword. I lured the fiend away from the ravager and the bone blades kept following the pit fiend leaving the ravager in the open attacking my sword. I cast improved haste then tensors transformation and start hitting away. I got many hits in then the my sword unsummoned and the fiend died, sending all the blades towards me! I cannot use my spells because the tensor spell is still working! I run around the outside slinging bullets in a hit and run fassion till I can recast a mordenkeins sword to divert their attention then repeat the process by recasting gate to lure the bone blades away and then running up to the solo ravager (who is attacking the fiend and not me of coarse ) and then imp haste and tensor’s transformation to take him well past half way. I repeated the process again and got him to near death but then he started facing me (but I still had the bone blades stalled with a couple of swords). I knew these swords would unsummon soon and then I’d be screwed coz they would all be onto me and I can’t cast spells! so I dashed back and used +4 bullets on him. He was throwing knives at me but my stoneskin still stood strong till a final +4 bullet to the head took him down… victory!!!