Improved Sendai-help needed

[Xen]

Oh man! This is my first time fighting Improved Sendai from Oversight Mod. Of course I play on Insane and that makes her like x4 tougher. She is one dirty spellcaster. You can see Project Images flying like chickens,Improved Alacraties she summons Deva`s... just say and she can to it!

Kudos goes to Kish. Anyway now she is the ultimate spellcaster in ToB as she supposed to be...

Her difficulty:

On Novice: Sendai will not use Harm. Sendai's images will cast Time Stop and Improved Alacrity once. On Normal: Sendai will use one Harm. Sendai's images will cast Time Stop and Improved Alacrity twice. Sendai's apprentices will cast Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting. On Core: Sendai will use multiple Harms. Sendai's images will cast Time Stop and Improved Alacrity three times. Sendai's apprentices will cast Comet. On Hard: Sendai is immune to level drain. Sendai's Projected Images are immune to divinations, abjurations, and conjurations (like True Sight, Dispel Magic, and Insect Swarm). Sendai is immune to Silence. Sendai will Force-Cast all her defensive spells, buffing spells, and protection-strippers, so that she doesn't lose the spells from her memory and they cannot be disrupted. Sendai will also Force-Cast Death Spells, if appropriate. Sendai's apprentices will use sequencers and triggers. On Insane: Sendai and all her Projected Images are permanently affected by Improved Alacrity

Now my party is around 20-25 levels.


So if anyone has fought her... you advice is appriciated...


My party:
Berserker
Cavalier
Assasain
Sorcerer
Barbarian

[ 10-30-2003, 04:40 PM: Message edited by: Xen ]

[Dar'tanian]

WHOA not that good yet buddy...good luck with that xen...see if your like me you would lower the difficulty to easy for that battle.

[Xen]

Originally posted by Dar'tanian: WHOA not that good yet buddy...good luck with that xen...see if your like me you would lower the difficulty to easy for that battle.

Yeah but I am not like you. [img]tongue.gif[/img] I would like to win this fight as it is. What point would it be if I play on Insane,Tactics,Ascension,yada,yada,yada and then lower the diff. level for one battle. Sorry no can do.

[Daniel_M]

Ouch...I've played the oversight mod before, using a Sorcerer, Bard (Blade) Mage/Cleric and Barbarian, dosent Project Image count as a summon, because if it did you can use death spell to snuff them out. But oher then that, Everyone died exept for my Sorc...hmm, the spells Spell Trap and Summon Planar are useful in the fight apart from that thats all I can offer you

[Raistlin Majere]

im coming to that...from the looks of it, its gonna be a pain in the a**, except i have a heavy-duty spellcasting party, so i might yet prevail! anyways, good luck XEN, looks like your(and im) gonna need it...

[Xen]

Originally posted by Raistlin Majere: im coming to that...from the looks of it, its gonna be a pain in the a**, except i have a heavy-duty spellcasting party, so i might yet prevail! anyways, good luck XEN, looks like your(and im) gonna need it...

I managed to set Spike Traps during the battle but when Sendai came the Traps killed Invisible Stalker not her.

[ 11-02-2003, 02:04 PM: Message edited by: Xen ]

[Raistlin Majere]

Originally posted by Xen: quote: Originally posted by Raistlin Majere: im coming to that...from the looks of it, its gonna be a pain in the a**, except i have a heavy-duty spellcasting party, so i might yet prevail! anyways, good luck XEN, looks like your(and im) gonna need it...

I managed to set Spike Traps during the battle but when Sendai came the Traps killed Invisible Stalker not her. [/QUOTE]thats a bummer...(reload, right?)

[Userunfriendly]

turnabout is fair play...

use death spell to kill her images...try area bombardment with dragon breath...the knockback and stun effect for one round, always works, to my experience should allow you to try a remove magic spell sequencer cast on self, to remove her protections, so a second dragon breath might actually have a chance of killing her...

remember she is the priority, i think with ascention, unless you kill sendai first, your attacks against the rest of the five do nothing...

[Tancred]

First time I defeated Improved Sendai I cheated royally. Defeated her statues, then everyone ran to the centre of the room whilst the last statue was being killed. Everyone hit Whirlwind, Greater Whirlwind, Assassination, anything I could scrounge. Then when Sendai did appear, we had one INSTANT in which she was unprotected, and we hit her hard enough to kill her just before her protections came up. Kudos to Sarevok for the lucky 200 damamge hit. Nice one, brother.

Thing is, I emailed Kish about this after that, and he said he might well prevent it from happening, so I don't know if that'll work for you. You have an Assassin... how good is he/she at Detecting Illusions? A high DI score will make Sendai's images just go POP! and disappear faster than anything else, really. It's not affected by Immunity: Divination, heehee. Trouble is, an Assassin is a bit more specialised than most thieves, so you might not be any good at DI.

[Xen]

Originally posted by Tancred: First time I defeated Improved Sendai I cheated royally. Defeated her statues, then everyone ran to the centre of the room whilst the last statue was being killed. Everyone hit Whirlwind, Greater Whirlwind, Assassination, anything I could scrounge. Then when Sendai did appear, we had one INSTANT in which she was unprotected, and we hit her hard enough to kill her just before her protections came up. Kudos to Sarevok for the lucky 200 damamge hit. Nice one, brother. Thing is, I emailed Kish about this after that, and he said he might well prevent it from happening, so I don't know if that'll work for you. You have an Assassin... how good is he/she at Detecting Illusions? A high DI score will make Sendai's images just go POP! and disappear faster than anything else, really. It's not affected by Immunity: Divination, heehee. Trouble is, an Assassin is a bit more specialised than most thieves, so you might not be any good at DI.

Right! Good one! I know that DI ignores PIivination and tough luck... my Assasain has 100 DI. [img]graemlins/evillaughter2.gif[/img] I will try it!