URGENT huge problem

[Dar'tanian]

I cant kill Van Helsing! Actaully I would rather not even fight the guy but i need to keep Valen. WHich MOD is he a part of i have tactics solafein valen and easeofuse installed. Is there anyway to by pass him? I cant start my game untill i figure out what to do!!!

[shamrock_uk]

It's the Valen-specific challenge when she reaches 2.5m XP.

From the Valen readme:

Q: The Vampire Hunters are hanging Valen out to dry. How can I save her? A: Apparently Valen (or was that Spike?) is hell on wheels, but it's hard to user her incredible powers in this fight because she cannot target them. My first suggestion would be to dispel their buffs. After that it's pretty standard. Note that as Undead Hunters (Paladins) most of them are immune to level drain.

A2: Kish offers this advice: Phase One [ fighting the hunters in the Underdark, Fanskar is the PC ] : As soon as we arrive in the Underdark, Valen starts running toward the Earth Elemental Portal. (Boots of Celeritous Stealth.) Edwin Improved Hastes Korgan. Korgan Enrages. The others wait for our heroes to appear. (I know from the first few tries that any spells Viconia or Fanskar tried to cast would be interrupted.) Korgan attacks Van Helsing as soon as he appears. Imoen attacks Buffy as soon as she appears. (It doesn't matter which one Imoen attacks, as long as it's not Van Helsing, with his Physical Mirror.) Viconia casts Elemental Summoning, Fanskar casts Righteous Magic, Edwin casts two Mordenkainen's Swords. Phase One ends when Valen is at the Earth Elemental Portal (depending on how her mind control is working, she may have recruited an Earth Elemental or a Kuo-Toa along the way), the four vampire hunters are converging on her, and the party is converging on the hunters. The three devas the hunters summon are left behind to play with the Mordenkainen's Swords and Viconia's elementals. Phase Two Korgan and Imoen both attack physically. Korgan picks on Van Helsing while Imoen picks on anyone but Van Helsing. (N.B. The Dispel Magic ability of a level 13 anti-paladin is completely inadequate for this fight, so I quit trying it after a couple times.) Valen occupies herself with the Earth Elementals, since she can't see anyone actually involved in the main fight, until she's pounded into mist form. It doesn't usually take long. Viconia and the main character target Valen's location with Unholy Blights. Edwin does the same, only with Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wiltings. Since an Unholy Blight is enough to send any summon hostile, we use no summons here. Key to this strategy is Valen's moment of vulnerability (she's in humanoid form but still purple-circled) coinciding with the surviving Undead Hunters being out of the fight (Sanctuaried and trying to Heal themselves). Those Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wiltings and Unholy Blights are likely to kill the Sanctuaried hunters before they can Heal themselves. Van Helsing is always the first to go down.

EDIT:

http://forums.forgottenwars.net/index.php?showtopic=891

and

http://forums.forgottenwars.net/index.php?showtopic=126

might help as well.

[ 05-23-2004, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]