here we go again

Arias De'Minal · 02-11-2003, 03:37 PM

Ok. Im going through the game my fourth time, and this time I feel Like doing it with an all spellcasting party. Well I guess true scorcer or mages (with the exception of a cleric mage). I see that battles with magic resilaint combatents will be highly interseting. (I'll have to use lower resistance for once!) Im sure this has been done before, but how far do you think I'll get before I realize the sword is mightier than the....umm.... pointy thing that makes words?

Angelousss · 02-11-2003, 03:46 PM

nah, you get 5 skelaton warriors it's usually enough to hold off long enough to unleash a overpowering barrage of spells. once you get adhw nothing will last all that long and once you have timestop nothing will stand up to you.

Raistlin Majere · 02-11-2003, 03:54 PM

I doubt youll have any troubles with an all spellcasting party. Remember to use lots of summons with the magic res. enemies, otherwise you would have to spend a few rounds casting the lower resistance spells, while the enemie(s) hack away at you. think of a drow war party for instance, they all have, what, 65% magic res., meaning youde have to cast about 2 lower magic resistance spells on EACH of them to truly do some damage. With summons, summon a few skeleton warriors and an earth elemental to knock'em out. On creatures like Dragons or magic resistant demons you should perhaps summon one or two creatures to distract it in melee while other spell casters lower his/her/its resistance, then cast away with like half the party and keep summoning with the other half so that the creature wont take youre spellcasters into melee. if that does happen though, cast all youre protections and perhaps tensers tranformation so you wont die right away. An all spellcaster party can kick the living crap out of an all fighter party, the spellcaster party needs "micro managing" though...

i know you didnt ask for any strategies, i just thought id post this in anyway, just to keep on the spellcasters side. i like fighters, but wizards and clerics are my favorites.

Xero279 · 02-11-2003, 04:25 PM

it wont be too hard, just make sure u have lots of good summons (animate dead, and best of all, mordakenians sword!!!) and adhw, maybe fireballs and cloudkills, and deffinitly hold spells. what i would do, would be to make one a mage/cleric, on a sorcerer, one a necromancer, one a conjurer, a evoker, and depending on how many other party members u want make them specialty with maybe another mage or wild mage. if you keep speciality mages it will be easier because they can learn more, and since ull have a all magic party you can make as any as you want

Angelousss · 02-11-2003, 04:27 PM

are you planning on making your own, or taking in game npcs?

Xero279 · 02-11-2003, 04:34 PM

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Originally posted by Angelousss:
are you planning on making your own, or taking in game npcs?

He would have to make a small party if he nly had one character and NPCs, playing an all mage party that is lol. o! i almost forgot, Skeletons are immune to poison. cloudkills are poison gasses.. skeletons are immune to cloudkills. use this to you advantage [img]smile.gif[/img]

Arias De'Minal · 02-11-2003, 04:38 PM

Hmm... Summons. I never piad much attention to them since most of the time I was helping my spellcasting caracter run as fast as he could.

Brennihelvete · 02-11-2003, 04:43 PM

One sorceror is enough, 6 of them would be overkill =)

[ 02-11-2003, 04:44 PM: Message edited by: Brennihelvete ]

Angelousss · 02-11-2003, 05:16 PM

you can take an all mage party with npcs, Nalia, imoen, jan, aerie, and the pc is five, 2 pcs is a full six person party, i'd suggest a sorc. as the pc and a wild mage as the 2nd.

ps
at lower levels web and spider spawn is very effective

Arias De'Minal · 02-11-2003, 05:31 PM

Whats a wild mage?

02-11-2003, 03:37 PM	#1
Arias De'Minal Manshoon Join Date: January 23, 2003 Location: Ky Age: 47 Posts: 166	Ok. Im going through the game my fourth time, and this time I feel Like doing it with an all spellcasting party. Well I guess true scorcer or mages (with the exception of a cleric mage). I see that battles with magic resilaint combatents will be highly interseting. (I'll have to use lower resistance for once!) Im sure this has been done before, but how far do you think I'll get before I realize the sword is mightier than the....umm.... pointy thing that makes words? __________________ IGNORANCE IS POWER

02-11-2003, 03:46 PM	#2
Angelousss Red Wizard of Thay Join Date: August 23, 2002 Location: come play with my wings Age: 41 Posts: 821	nah, you get 5 skelaton warriors it's usually enough to hold off long enough to unleash a overpowering barrage of spells. once you get adhw nothing will last all that long and once you have timestop nothing will stand up to you. __________________ Just because your paranoid<br />Don\'t mean they\'re not after you<br />Kurt Cobain

02-11-2003, 03:54 PM	#3
Raistlin Majere Ra Join Date: March 26, 2002 Location: Finland Age: 37 Posts: 2,323	I doubt youll have any troubles with an all spellcasting party. Remember to use lots of summons with the magic res. enemies, otherwise you would have to spend a few rounds casting the lower resistance spells, while the enemie(s) hack away at you. think of a drow war party for instance, they all have, what, 65% magic res., meaning youde have to cast about 2 lower magic resistance spells on EACH of them to truly do some damage. With summons, summon a few skeleton warriors and an earth elemental to knock'em out. On creatures like Dragons or magic resistant demons you should perhaps summon one or two creatures to distract it in melee while other spell casters lower his/her/its resistance, then cast away with like half the party and keep summoning with the other half so that the creature wont take youre spellcasters into melee. if that does happen though, cast all youre protections and perhaps tensers tranformation so you wont die right away. An all spellcaster party can kick the living crap out of an all fighter party, the spellcaster party needs "micro managing" though... i know you didnt ask for any strategies, i just thought id post this in anyway, just to keep on the spellcasters side. i like fighters, but wizards and clerics are my favorites. __________________ If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

02-11-2003, 04:25 PM	#4
Xero279 Symbol of Cyric Join Date: May 12, 2002 Location: Atlanta Age: 37 Posts: 1,360	it wont be too hard, just make sure u have lots of good summons (animate dead, and best of all, mordakenians sword!!!) and adhw, maybe fireballs and cloudkills, and deffinitly hold spells. what i would do, would be to make one a mage/cleric, on a sorcerer, one a necromancer, one a conjurer, a evoker, and depending on how many other party members u want make them specialty with maybe another mage or wild mage. if you keep speciality mages it will be easier because they can learn more, and since ull have a all magic party you can make as any as you want __________________ <br /> <img border=\"0\" alt=\"[music04]\" title=\"\" src=\"graemlins/music04.gif\" /> Live to Rock, Rock to Live <img border=\"0\" alt=\"[rocking2]\" title=\"\" src=\"graemlins/rocking2.gif\" /> <br />[url]\"http://www.livejournal.com/users/Xero279\" target=\"_blank\">...From The Mind of Xero</a>

02-11-2003, 04:27 PM	#5
Angelousss Red Wizard of Thay Join Date: August 23, 2002 Location: come play with my wings Age: 41 Posts: 821	are you planning on making your own, or taking in game npcs? __________________ Just because your paranoid<br />Don\'t mean they\'re not after you<br />Kurt Cobain

02-11-2003, 04:38 PM	#7
Arias De'Minal Manshoon Join Date: January 23, 2003 Location: Ky Age: 47 Posts: 166	Hmm... Summons. I never piad much attention to them since most of the time I was helping my spellcasting caracter run as fast as he could. __________________ IGNORANCE IS POWER

02-11-2003, 04:43 PM	#8
Brennihelvete Avatar Join Date: September 25, 2002 Location: Norway Age: 40 Posts: 516	One sorceror is enough, 6 of them would be overkill =) [ 02-11-2003, 04:44 PM: Message edited by: Brennihelvete ] __________________

02-11-2003, 05:16 PM	#9
Angelousss Red Wizard of Thay Join Date: August 23, 2002 Location: come play with my wings Age: 41 Posts: 821	you can take an all mage party with npcs, Nalia, imoen, jan, aerie, and the pc is five, 2 pcs is a full six person party, i'd suggest a sorc. as the pc and a wild mage as the 2nd. ps at lower levels web and spider spawn is very effective __________________ Just because your paranoid<br />Don\'t mean they\'re not after you<br />Kurt Cobain

02-11-2003, 05:31 PM	#10
Arias De'Minal Manshoon Join Date: January 23, 2003 Location: Ky Age: 47 Posts: 166	Whats a wild mage? __________________ IGNORANCE IS POWER

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