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Well, as to the beholder thing, Beholders in BG2 aren't quite as powerful as beholders in the D&D world. This isn't an exact copy game, they made beholders a bit weaker, plus no computer AI would compare to what a beholder would actually do in the same circumstances.
A beholder in the D&D world has a anti-magic eye, so anything in the front of it that was close enough would be affected by its anti-magic ray, which cancel's protective spells, any spells thrown at the beholder from the front, etc.
A cloak of mirroring is suppose to only reflect damaging magical spells, such as magic missiles, cause wound rays, but it actually reflects many other things which it really isn't suppose to. Thus many people call it a cloak of cheating.
A real beholder has a dozen eyestalks which cast different spells, about 6 of which can face any direction. Thus if you were attacking a beholder, you would be attacked by about 6 different attacks plus the antimagic ray from the front. Death ray, petrify ray, disintegrate ray, telekinesis ray, many others. If you were attacking it with a cloak of mirrors, it might disintegrate the floor from under you, or levitate rocks at you. And it sure wouldn't attack the person wearking the cloak once if knew you had the cloak on. It would attack someone else.
But here, if you are in front and have the cloak, it will cast and keep casting at you until it dies from its own attacks, which is silly, but hey, its a game. If you are in combat with a mage and cast magic missile at him, and he has a spell reflection which throw them back at you, are you going to turn around and keep casting them? No, because its gonna hurt! You cast something else.
What would be cool for the beholders in the game to do would be to cast dispel magic each round as part of their normal ability, to simulate the anti-magic eye. And to have a code that makes them NOT cast their powers at someone with a cloak of mirrors, a shield of balduran, or something similiar on. A beholder is suppose to be smart.
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