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08-18-2000, 07:58 PM

First off, since you're running a party of four, you have to expect the early part of the game to be a bit hard. You're not far enough in yet to have significantly higher levels in your party to make up for two missing members. It will likewise get hard again as you near the end, where a couple more levels won't matter much -- because you don't get much progress in your characters at those high levels. Level 10 characters are about the point for this. A party of 6 gets to level 10 roughly when they start chapter 6.

If you really got surrounded by 25 skeletons, you're doing it wrong. Do not charge at foes. Wait for them to come to you. If they won't come to you, use ranged weapons.

Some +2 weapons are indeed for sale in Kuldahar. You can buy two axes, a flail (I think), and a spear that are all +2 or better. There's a broadsword +2 (Erevain's Broadsword) on the first level of Dragon's Eye, an axe +2 (Defender) on the second level, and much more good gear on the next two levels. This is all before you enter the fifth and final level. You might not have quite enough +2 weapons for everyone, but you should have a few you can use. Also, you will find some +2 arrows and a few +2 bullets before you have to do the big battle. No +2 bolts, though.

You should have some fire potions (from the lizard priests on the first Dragon's Eye level) that you can use to deal with the trolls you find. Also some Arrows of Fire. And you can buy a couple different kinds of fire potions in Kuldahar. Without a mage, you have to expect difficulties, and trolls are going to be one of them. The bastard sword with 25% fire damage will work, but not terribly well. Trolls can save against the fire damage, and even if they don't the sword will often do too little damage to kill them. You'll have a few trolls getting up again before you can kill them if you rely only on the sword.

You can try to get a stack of three or more almost dead trolls and then use your one fire spell on them. That will work to kill them all at once, but it's quite a nuisance making the stack in the first place.

BTW, acid works just as well as fire.

08-18-2000, 07:58 PM	#9
sibley Guest Posts: n/a	First off, since you're running a party of four, you have to expect the early part of the game to be a bit hard. You're not far enough in yet to have significantly higher levels in your party to make up for two missing members. It will likewise get hard again as you near the end, where a couple more levels won't matter much -- because you don't get much progress in your characters at those high levels. Level 10 characters are about the point for this. A party of 6 gets to level 10 roughly when they start chapter 6. If you really got surrounded by 25 skeletons, you're doing it wrong. Do not charge at foes. Wait for them to come to you. If they won't come to you, use ranged weapons. Some +2 weapons are indeed for sale in Kuldahar. You can buy two axes, a flail (I think), and a spear that are all +2 or better. There's a broadsword +2 (Erevain's Broadsword) on the first level of Dragon's Eye, an axe +2 (Defender) on the second level, and much more good gear on the next two levels. This is all before you enter the fifth and final level. You might not have quite enough +2 weapons for everyone, but you should have a few you can use. Also, you will find some +2 arrows and a few +2 bullets before you have to do the big battle. No +2 bolts, though. You should have some fire potions (from the lizard priests on the first Dragon's Eye level) that you can use to deal with the trolls you find. Also some Arrows of Fire. And you can buy a couple different kinds of fire potions in Kuldahar. Without a mage, you have to expect difficulties, and trolls are going to be one of them. The bastard sword with 25% fire damage will work, but not terribly well. Trolls can save against the fire damage, and even if they don't the sword will often do too little damage to kill them. You'll have a few trolls getting up again before you can kill them if you rely only on the sword. You can try to get a stack of three or more almost dead trolls and then use your one fire spell on them. That will work to kill them all at once, but it's quite a nuisance making the stack in the first place. BTW, acid works just as well as fire.