[andrewas]

Ok, I find this very, VERY hard to believe. I could be wrong, maybe you had already beaten Kangaax and had the Ring of Gaxx. Maybe its the special edition and you got some really good stuff like the robe of Vecna that I can't get. Maybe you had found the Staff of the Magi as well, but I find that just too many maybes and what-ifs. The first 50 something times I tried to kill him, before getting ToB and without cheating, I died by the time his second Time Stop resolved. I eventually gave up and went back to level up my entire party to the max before I was able to win the game. I remember casting something like my whole spell book worth of protection spells before finishing off the last parasite, then saving the game and reloading over and over. I can recite his final speech on the tree easily...[/QB][/QUOTE]

Just a small tip for surviving time stop. If you aint on screen when he casts it, hell either cast nothing at all, or things like true sight.

Although sometimes they will advance, which is why I prefer tactic B, which is:

Run like hell

Summon the most minor creatures you can (So you dont waste a spell slot on a summoning spell you dont really need)

Advance the summons to Irenicus one at a time.

Laugh, as he wastes an entire Timestop on a wolf, gnoll or something of that nature. This way Irenicus burns more of his high-level spells.

Irenicus is the most powerful magic-using enemy in the game, but the AI isnt up to making him a threat.