Thread: underdark help
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Old 07-07-2002, 01:07 AM   #6
Ctenas
Elite Waterdeep Guard
 

Join Date: July 4, 2002
Location: São Paulo - Brazil
Age: 45
Posts: 43
You can do all these quests before or after leaving the underdark. I recomend before, so that you get used to underdark settings and Gets all the xp you can before moving on. Another tip: you know that Phaere gives you a limited amount of time between her requests. Be smart and uses all available time you can spare inside the city to do the sub quests, or you will miss lots of xp and cool itens.

If you care to read, I´ll descrybe my prefered tatics against beholders and Mind flayers

Beholders:

3 tipes in the game: litle green ones, regular beholders, elder orbs (look like beholders). They attack in melle combat (their thac0 and AC sucks) and magical atacks (domination, cause severe wounds, petrification, dispel effects, mainly). He can casts magic atacks very quickly and does not stop the melle atack during spellcasting. If you can nulify the magic, protect one character agains petrification and domination and this shound be a easy fight. I used A cloac of magic reflection, a sword that protects from domination spells, regenerative rings and protection from petrification and attacked them with only one fighter. Believe or not, it works.

To fight the flayers I use a wand of cloudkill. They are very resistant to magic, but somehow (I dont know if it´s a loophole) they have no defense agains wands. The architecture of flayers lairs are very friendly to this tatic. First you need a thief with hide in shadows on that opens a door (usualy makes the thief leave shadows in few moments. Just take them them away from the door and leave them open and hide again). Use it to count and search the flayers and Hulks next room. With a mage send a well positioned cloudkill and watch all the Hulks die and the flayers go to at least "badly injuried". Retreat a room let the survivors enter the room you are in with a hided thief and repeat the preocess. If there are any survivor they can be easily taken care of with backstabs.
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