[daan]

True, Animate Dead is the only easy way to kill a mindflayer, if you're a mage. But you yourself CAN provide great back-up !!!

Summon 1-5 (preferrably five) skeleton warriors,
(skeleton warriors are summonable at 15th lvl, with the 5th lvl-spell animate dead, before 15th lvl you'll only be able to summon normal skeletons)
Skeleton Warriors have 95% magic resistance, and are great for Mindflayer whacking.

Haste the warriors, maybe IMPROVED haste yourself, and provide backup with Melf's Minute Meteors (MMM). MMM will be able to injure Mindflayers, and (improved) haste, will make you a MMMM ....
(Melf's Minute Meteors Machine-gun).

hope it works [img]smile.gif[/img]


P.S. If you follow J'aran's advice, and throw in a couple a cloudkills
(probably from a wand, since cloudkill is 5th lvl too, you wont have any slots left), It'll work even better. Skeleton Warriors usually dont get injured by the gasses, so its all good for you [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 02-02-2002: Message edited by: daan ]