I quite agree that fighters have their roles in the game, however I have yet to get the good stuff for them. I use a hacked up sorceror, whith major nasty stuff, but no contingency and triggered spells. since I'm a magic facinated person, I've noticed there are no really good, powerful single target relaible high level monster take down spell. thats why I try ot use tactics and cunning to take on liches and beholders with no serious damage.
fast casting web combined with area effect spells. cast the web at a enemy just out of visual range. most or all will get stuk on the web, (ambush bonus) allowing you to use cloud kill at leaisure. actually, i find incindeary cloud to be more effective in most situations. it sure seems to work better. I'll have to try out that cloudkill from wand tactic.
a 5 squad of skeleton warriors can take on an kill liches without your party taking any damage at all. in the umar hills, I sent a group fo 5 skeleton warriors against the liches, mummies and enemy skeleton warriors. they were almost invulnerable against the lich spells, and ground him up into bone soup. when the lich finally made it to the visual sight of my party, he was too busy to cast spells and I used spellstrike and lower resistance to make him easy meat.
skeleton warriors-heavy armor. using a sledge hammer to crush walnuts is not elegent, but always works. the only time my skeletons have failed to kill and maim is up against 6 beholders. that one i used a cheap trick, not rotating the bridge so there was no way to get at my party, and cloudkill at the extreme visual range. farsight is invaluable for targetting with cloudkill.
spiders-fast light scouts, expendable, and excellent against hordes of lightweight creatures. 2 spiders can tear apart a gobin horde in 3 turns flat. rather chilling in fact.
invisible stalker, I rarely use them
pit fiend-pure fun. unleash a demon from the ninth circle of hell into a middle of some weak monsters is so fun. the problem is waiting until it disappears.
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