The salads are by far the most challenging monster in the entire game. And you can't get through without defeating them...
But you can defeat them with just flamedrop... I often do. Make sure all your other characters have mana potions, and when your wizard runs low, the others give her (or him) a potion. Just use it on her, and away you go!
Also, there *is* a technique to flamedropping the salads. Take your time [img]smile.gif[/img]
No, seriously. Each flamedrop will incapacitate any salad in its grip for a period of time (say, ten seconds). If you cast five quick flamedrops, say one a second, the salad will be incapacitated for a total of 14 seconds (with the fifth one, cast in second 4, expiring in second 14).
If instead you wait to cast the next flamedrop until you feel the first one is close to expiring, you can cast those same five flamedrops and incapacitate the salad for almost 46 seconds (if you cast them nine seconds apart).
And *THAT* is why I think that flamedrop is the best spell for dealing with salads.
BTW, the salads are the inspiration for the Gael Serran motto... they WILL hunt you down. I've fought them from the Ishad N'ha gates before... it's *not* a lot of fun, lemmetellya.
*edit* forgot to mention that if you deal with the ratlings, you're dead. The salads come up from behind in the middle of that battle. What I do is to bypass the ratlings and head for Shurugeon castle. The salads will actually take out the ratlings for you, and you can do battle with them from the safety of the castle walls. You can cast spells from up there, throw fire bombs (if you have any), use flamestrike and meteor scrolls... the list is almost endless. Just don't use poison bombs... they don't affect salads
And if they start getting too close, just drop off the other side of the wall, and they can't hurt you. A piece of cake
[ 04-13-2005, 11:00 AM: Message edited by: Bungleau ]