Urm... ...
Well... ...
My memory is hazy, but the one thing I remember about Malavon was that he was crazy and illogical. I took advantage of his... madness. I will describe my first encounter( Core Difficulty), since it was without foreknowledge, and yet, still successful.
I encountered him when my party members were ranging from level 8-9. I talked with the blind slaves and only used one member to scout the building( my Paladin to be exact). When the Malavon clone saw my Paladin, he engaged in a talk, and my Paladin agreed to drop all his equipment in exchange for Malavon's mercy on the blind slaves.
Remember, my first time meeting him, so I did not know how much of a bastard he was.
The clone laughs at my Paladin's 'stupidity' and proceeds to kill the slaves. I quickly paused the game, went to my inventory screen and re-equiped my Paladin. Cheesy? Maybe, but hey, I will just assume that my Paladin had quick fingers.
Since the clone attack the slaves, the slaves become hostile to the clone, the Iron Golems, and the Umber Hulks. I pulled back my Paladin back to the entry point and lured the minions out. I killed the Umber Hulks and the Iron Golems with little difficulty, because they were distracted by the slaves.
The clone... was a joke. As you may know, the building interior is divided into several rooms that contain several slaves each. The clone warped into the room where my party was, and cast his spells at the slaves in the adjacent room... My Fighter( Archer) had a field day pelting him with Acid Arrows( the acid damage penetrates his Stoneskin and ignores his Magic Resistance). Magic Missiles and my tanks got rid of the Mirror Images.
When the clone died, the same thing happened with the real deal. My Archer interrupted most of his spells( got to love the rapid-fire Apali Bow) with Acid Arrows.
[ 08-15-2003, 02:16 AM: Message edited by: Dundee Slaytern ]