Ironworks Gaming Forum - View Single Post

SixOfSpades · 01-16-2002, 01:33 AM

The first thing you should probably do is leave the area and go do some other stuff first--the Unseeing Eye quest is a dang hard one for a Level 9-10 party! I had to Reload SO many times the first time I did it.

As for tactics, though, using traps can work wonders. Have your Thief set a few Traps, and use Skull Trap as well if you know it. Then use a Mage with some spell protections to draw the Gauths toward their (hopefully) deaths. Gauths are flesh and blood, so normal arrows will hurt them. You're right, they ARE a pain in the ass, though. And they've got some Shadows & Show Fiends that come running when the Gauths are attacked. Don't you love it? Also of note is the fact that Gauths are just as tough as full-sized Beholders: Kill a Gauth, get 9000 EXP. Kill a Beholder, get 9000 EXP. Oh, the joy. (NOT!!!)

When you patch SOA, new merchants appear--one of them sells a shield that reflects (not absorbs, reflects) Beholder rays.

01-16-2002, 01:33 AM	#3
SixOfSpades Dracolisk Join Date: September 16, 2001 Location: Bellingham, WA, USA Age: 48 Posts: 6,901	The first thing you should probably do is leave the area and go do some other stuff first--the Unseeing Eye quest is a dang hard one for a Level 9-10 party! I had to Reload SO many times the first time I did it. As for tactics, though, using traps can work wonders. Have your Thief set a few Traps, and use Skull Trap as well if you know it. Then use a Mage with some spell protections to draw the Gauths toward their (hopefully) deaths. Gauths are flesh and blood, so normal arrows will hurt them. You're right, they ARE a pain in the ass, though. And they've got some Shadows & Show Fiends that come running when the Gauths are attacked. Don't you love it? Also of note is the fact that Gauths are just as tough as full-sized Beholders: Kill a Gauth, get 9000 EXP. Kill a Beholder, get 9000 EXP. Oh, the joy. (NOT!!!) When you patch SOA, new merchants appear--one of them sells a shield that reflects (not absorbs, reflects) Beholder rays. __________________ Volothamp's Comeuppance Everything you ever needed to know about the entire Baldur's Gate series......except spoilers.