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Some people have posted asking me how I did Twisted Rune in Chap2 and the lvls/strategy that I used. First let me say that I beat them on Normal difficulty and that I have not cheated in any way during this game. The party I am using and their lvls (as best I remember) are:
PC Assassin 14th lvl
Korgan 12th lvl
Jahiera 10th lvl fighter/12druid
Anomen 13th lvl
Haer'Daelis 13th lvl (yes I find him useful)
Edwin 12th lvl
Here's the strategy that I used:
Before entering the doorway with the Rogue Stone I buffed up my characters with haste, draw upon holy might, righteous magic, blur, stoneskin, ironskin, mirror image, prot from evil, and bless. Anomen was equipped with the Shield of Balduran. No one in my group had Daystar, the Mace of Disruption, or Azuredge.
Anyway I entered and kept my characters near the far wall of the small antechamber, Jahiera summoned two fire elementals...I had these wait right in the entrance to the adjoining room. I then had Anomen walk into the room alone, which triggered the entrance of Shandalar and his lackeys. As soon as Shandalar had spewed his crap at Anomen I had him run back into the small room and take up posistion. Shandalar teleports into the midst of the party at this point. I had Haer'daelis shoot magic-missle at him and Edwin fire off his minor sequencer which was loaded with magic missles, everyone elso either shot at or melee'd him. This took Shandalar down to injured before his multiple contingincies fired off. Then while Haer'Daelis cast oracle and all the fighters pounded on Shandalars decoy image, Edwin threw a death fog into the next room...about this time Shandalars Time Stop went off...Shandalar and his buddies went crazy casting fear, domination, and wail of the banshee, Most of my party was immune to the fear and domination effects and luckily the wail didn't kill anyone. The time stop ended and Edwin Cast breach to lower all of Shandalar's physical protections then my other characters pounded on him until he went down. By this point the vamp and some fighter named Rayanek had entered the small chamber and the Beholder had killed itself by firing at Anomen who conveniently had the Shield of Balduran. The vamp and fighter went down fairly easy leaving only the female mage...By this time some of her protections had expired and by herself she was no match for my intact, and fairly healthy party.
Anyway that's how it went down...on the five previous attempts that I made the battle was always close. I'd kill a few of the Twisted Rune before losing a character or two and would hit reload. I probably could have won in fewer attempts had I been willing to accept casualties. Before doing the Rune I had completed most of the other main side-quests, including the Slave Lords and both Dragon fights. If anyone wants any more info on how I did this battle just post here and I will reply. It's worth doing in Chap2 so that you can use the Staff of the Magi throughout the bulk of the game.
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