kensai warrior is very vulnerable.

[lee1001]

I have a kensai warrior and as you know he cannot wear armour or bracers....any items that can reduce the THACO?

I have ring of protection +1, and know you can get one from Aran Linvail that is +2. Can you wear them both at the same time?
Are there any other items that can help. Im getting slaughtered in one on on combat.
If you suggest an items please tell me where to get it from, e.g. which quest and chapter.

Thanks everyone.

[TaSSaDaR]

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You are speaking about AC, not THAC0, aren't you?

You can not wear 2 rings of protection at the same time. This is the drawback Instead, you may wear the Ring Of Gaax

To boost your AC (and saving throws sometimes ) quaff a potion of defence, invulnerability or such. Wear the Cloak of Sewers. Shield amulet may come in handy too

Some girdles grant you a great bonus to AC agains a certain type of weapons. My favorite is the one granting a bonus vs. slashing weapons.. Big men wielding swords are no longer a threat

Use your Kai to make sure the battle will not last long

ADD]Cloak of Sewers is found in the sewers in Temple District, on a rakshasa surrounded bu some kobolds. Not very difficult

Shield amulets are spread allthrough the game. I encountered 2-3 of them. They should not be too difficult to find.

The girdle I am talking about is the Golden Girdle, aquired in the Planar Sphere (if you do all the quests properly)

Also try Boots Of Avoidance (the buried man quest).

Finally, if you can find BGI, complete the easter-egg quest for Big Metal Unit That will boost your AC to -10 More than enough!

[ 10-23-2002, 09:04 AM: Message edited by: TaSSaDaR ]

[lee1001]

"Finally, if you can find BGI, complete the easter-egg quest for Big Metal Unit That will boost your AC to -10 More than enough!"

I have no idea what you are talking about [img]smile.gif[/img]

Where is the ring of Gaxx? What is it?

Thanks.

[TaSSaDaR]

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In BGI you can get a "useless" item - Golden Pantaloons (spelling?). In BGII you get silver pantaloons as a ransom for a woman (buried man quest). In ToB you will get Bronze Pantalettes in Abazigal's Lair. There is a dwarf (not Cromwell) in ToB that will make a Big Metal Unit from these two. Search the forum - I remember Dundee posting 3 screenshots with full item description.

It is like the Advanced Power Armor in Fallout II Grants AC -10 and other bonuses IIRC.
Of course, they will be available to you only by the end of ToB, but they will serve you well in final battles.

The Ring of Gaax can be obtained from Kangaax the demi-Lich. Lich body parts quest. Remember 3 tombs across the city?
The fights are of hard difficulty, and you will need a +4 or better weapon to harm Kangaax. And you will need a great magic protection to shield from his infinite Imprisonments... But the ring will grant you 2 bonus to AC, 2 bonus to saving throws, and regeneration (at a good rate )

[McHaggis]

Don't you need also Silver Pantaloons for the Big Metal Unit?

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You can't get them in BG2 (unless cheating), instead you get them from BG1, Upper floor of the Friendly Arm Inn. There is a man how asks you to take them to dry cleaning (or something like that [img]smile.gif[/img] ). Or atleast I think you can get them from there. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I know where you can get the BGM, but I don't remember names, so I'm not going to explain [img]smile.gif[/img] .

I once cheated [img]graemlins/angel.gif[/img] so that I could try hte BMU, it was kind of kewl! [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[lee1001]

I didn't know you get could get anything higher than a +4 weapon!

[Morgeruat]

best ways to protect your Kensai, ring of Gax(+2AC), ring of earth control(+1 AC), amulet of protection +1 (I don't think there is a +2 amulet), cloak of the sewers(+1AC), boots of avoidance (+5AC vs Missile), girdle of bluntness/golden girdle/girdle of piercing (I believe you can only get the golden girdle if you are a mage) Dak'kon's Zerth Blade (+1 or 2 AC I don't recall which) wielded in off hand, with an assumed 18 dex (-4 AC) you would have (10-4dex-2gax-1earth rin-1amu=ac2-1cloak-1 zerthblade is an AC of 0 which isn't too shabby and I'm sure there are items out there I can't recall that are better and work as well

[lee1001]

Im weilding two weapons as a Kensai warrior, which weapons do you suggest.
One has to be the celestrial fury, the other i was thinking of was flail of ages.

I have forgotten where to get the celestrial fury!
Know where it is?

[Morgeruat]

Originally posted by lee1001: I didn't know you get could get anything higher than a +4 weapon!

the earliest +4 weapon you can get is the staff of Rhynn, in the adventurers mart, there is also a +5 weapon only paladins can use that you need to fight a nasty beasty for (other highly enchanted weapons are harder to find and require some serious fights.

[Morgeruat]

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the celestial fury is in the guarded compound in the temple district