[JR Jansen]

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Originally posted by Iqbal_khi:
First up let me warn you that this is a very complex strategy and will take a long time to complete. I had to reload 7 times, fine tuning and tweaking my strategy before I pulled it off. The aim of this strategy is to kill kangaxx and not get anybody imprisoned, using only items available in chapter 2. That done, this is what you need:
2 mages, with MMM, spell immunity, resist fear
1 or 2 tanks, with a weapon capable of hurting Kangaxx the lich (not necessarily the demi lich)
sling of everard, ring of the ram, any item capable of summons, plenty of summon spells (druids…

Phase 1: preparations
Beat the elemental and shadow lich. They should be pushovers if you are willing to take on Kangaxx 
Detrap the door of the building next to the Sea bounty’s inn
Enter and kill the 3 minotaurs
Descend to the crypt
Place your tanks where kangaxx will spawn
Place the mage with the ring of the ram a little ways behind the tanks
Place the rest of the party at the bottom left of the screen, as far away from everything as possible
Cast resist fear on everyone

Phase 2: Opening gambit
Use one of the tanks to click on the sarcophagus to release Kangaxx
Immediately have your tanks and all available ranged firepower brought to bear against Kangaxx
Kangaxx will respond with a chain contingency of spell turning, spell trap and prot from magical weapons
You may want to disengage your archers to prevent any wastage of ammo
Kangaxx will then stop time, and then try to kill your tanks with power word kill (the fool…
He continues with fear and stun spells, and finishes with another kill spell

Phase 3: After the time stop
Your tanks will be unhurt, but disengage them all the same and let them join the party at the bottom.
Unleash all your summon spells at him (they won’t hurt Kangaxx until his prot wears off, though)
Kangaxx summons an efreeti, which you should kill
The second your summons start dealing damage, let loose with your archers

Phase 4: Pillar of flame
Kangaxx the lich dies and will turn into a demi lich
Pause, select your mage with spell immunity and the ring of the ram
Activate spell immunity abjuration
Select the NPC with the sling of Everard and your other mage, move them to the top left of the room
Unpause for a second, then pause again

Phase 5: The kill
Let the ring ram Kangaxx all the way to the top right of the room
All summons should automatically move towards Kangaxx
Join the fray melee style (Yes, I do know that you don’t have a weapon that can hurt Kangaxx. Yet.)
Kangaxx starts imprisoning. Let both mages cast MMM, then let the immunity mage attack point blank
When all the summons are imprisoned, Kangaxx will go for the immunity mage
At this point, let the slinger and the other mage add their firepower to the assault.
Kangaxx should fall before immunity runs out, if not go to plan B

Plan B:
If you see the globe of immunity disappear, immediately pause, cast spell immunity, unpause, pause, select abjuration, unpause
Done right, the next attack will splatter impotently against your shield
He WLLL NOT last 2 immunities… unless something went wrong 

After word: What I did different
I only had 1 mage with MMM and spell immunity… I am a compulsive hoarder and refused to let Jan scribe MMM. Don’t know why
My tank was Keldorn with Carsomyr and boots of speed, but I still pulled him out after time stop, having served his purpose of being the target said time stop
My mage used the spider figurine, bottle of efreeti summoning and iron horn of valhalla to summon so that he could immediately cast spell immunity (mages have a nasty pause between spells)
My slinger was Jaheira, I equipped her with boots of speed when Keldorn retreated. The extra attack from haste helped to achieve the kill faster, especially since each attack only did 1 damage and the mage was missing Kangaxx (even at point blank range!) half the time 

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That's very impressive but with ToB installed this will not work anymore. They have tweaked the AI a bit so that he doesn't attack the same person over and over again.