[Bungleau]

Welcome to the boards, Samara. May your journey through the Gael Serran inspire the bards to rewrite history.

As people have said, salads like the Mantraps and Lilies are best dealt with from a distance. If this is your first time playing, you may not have the high-level storm spells to draw from, which makes using them a wee bit difficult.

But don't worry! There's an amazingly effective low-level Sun spell that can make life much easier -- flamedrop! Just cast flamedrop on each salad, and every round (until the flamedrop wears off), they'll take another point or so of damage. The damage isn't important, though -- what's important is that when they take that damage, they lose their chance to attack you. So you can stand safely in the distance, shooting with arrows and crossbow bolts, and periodically refreshing the flamedrops until they are all nice and crispy.

And as for losing the XP from luring the lilies into the shockers, I believe that if you hit the lilies at least once, when they die (no matter how), you get the XP. Perfect case for a hit and run, to be sure.

*edited to remove proof that I can't read...*

[ 09-10-2002, 10:57 PM: Message edited by: Bungleau ]