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higgins55 ... yes, mindflayers are very tough until you develop (or someone tells you) proper anti-mindflayer tactics.
There's no need to resort to cheese tactics against MF's. There's
a nice straightforward tactic that requires no cheese.
1. Cast Chaotic Commands on the 1 or 2 best tanks in your party. Drink either potion of genius or of Mind focusing. Both raise your INT, which is good against mindflayer INT drains.
2. If your mage(s) are of a high enough level, cast Animate Dead or, even better, Mordenkaiden's Sword. Both of these summon spells work because the summoned "creature" has no mind to be attacked by the MF's. Don't bother with elementals. They're so dumb that seem to die after a single hit from a MF.
Send your mindless creatures thru the door first to soak up the initial volley of MF mind attacks. Send your 1 or 2 protected tanks in right behind the mindless creatures. Concentrate your attacks on illithids and mindflayers. Ignore any umber hulks until all MF's are dead. Keep the remainder of your party back a safe distance for long range fire support with ranged weapons or magic.
If one of your characters begins taking INT drain damage, suck down another of those INT related potions to "heal" the INT damage. (The INT drain is temporary and will "heal" within a few rounds.)
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