I think Azred was talking about the difficulty of the last level of kresselacks tomb, and not the temple of the forgotten gods. Chromatic Orb actually does a pretty good job against the verbeegs in the temple. I'm pretty sure that summoning spells such as animate dead are available by this time and possibly monster summoning 1 for mages (not positive about the mage spell). Doesn't sound like much help; but summoned monsters are also "morphed" with more hit points in HOF mode just like regular monsters. Early on, they are often more powerful than the party itself!
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