Nessie Ha!!!!!!!!

[Vaprakgruumsh]

Yeah - having read the board, I stocked up on canned elementals. So I threw out 6 canned elementals - while my party aced her. But if I had not been (accidently) spoiled on the board (there was no spoiler on the thread, just said "cool screen shot" - and it was a screen of Nessie then went on to talk about her and where she was) I would have been trampled on. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Bad Mr. Frosty]

First of all Vapra, ahhh..... nevermind.


anyway i just found it by accident too
see i was just barely getting to the umpani story line
even at that level i havent done somethings some others at lower levels have done.

luckily when i was down there i had fought the psi sharks that were pretty hard.
so after that psi shark fight i teleported out and rested then cast all buffs and went back in expecting more sharks
but i found nessie instead
luckily i was strong

and yes i was boasting so what
this game is fun, and its harder than most games around.
But i have wizardry experiance
back to proving grounds
and ive played alot of the old hard interplay games from the mid 80's
and no im not 40
im 25, but when i was a kid i was poor and could only afford old games on my old commodore 64.
I guess i was lucky and i got to play those cool games back then.
anyway reading the forum is fun
i like to read others boast
and i like to read others crying about a certain monster or situation
and yes sometimes i want to be spoiled a bit.
but after i have spent hours on something

[Annheiser]

Nessie isn't too hard, even for sub-15's parties once you know what she's capable of doing. [img]smile.gif[/img] I took her out with a level 13-14 party, and one Canned Elemental (summoned two but the freak lizard snapped him in two in one round ) by sheer brawn.

None of her attacks are completely brutal, except maybe Concussion, and her melee is fairly weak. About the only thing you want to cross your fingers on is she won't cast Body of Stone. If she gets one off, it makes the battle about 10x longer.

Personally, I think the tactic of hiding from a distance and hitting her with 1000+ arrows, stones, and bolts is a pain. Nessie can still hit the party with her magic from anywhere in or around that den of hers, and they hurt more than her melee even with max resistances. By drawing up close to Nessie, she'll go to melee 9 times out of 10.

[[wcip]Angel]

earthquake "owns" concussion.. as the young kids say these days.

[Vaprakgruumsh]

I don't have a problem with Boasting about a battle...

Saying you cleaned her clock, was like a walk in the park, etc - that's all good and fine, in my opinion. Heck, I enjoy boasting after a battle too!

But when you say:

But Nessie was so easy, i killed her in about 4 rounds, no one died.
Dissapointed big time.


The Disappointed Big Time comment.

Well of course you're gonna be disappointed, because it was "easy." Anyone reading about Nessie knows what to expect (and I assume you read about Nessie since you said:

I keep on reading how hard beating nessie is.

Boast away all you want, I say! Heck, boasting is fun! After all, you get to build and customize your characters, so it's worth it! But to say that you're disappointed, after reading so much about it ... just doesn't sit with me. Why complain that you're disappointed, after having already spoiled yourself with what it is, ya know?

But that's just my worthless two cents.

Vapra-whatevertherestofthenameis.

[Ziggurat]

My 2nd party at lev 14 just took out Nessie. The Bishop still doesn't have Elemental Shield or Summon Elemental(she changed class late and I haven't found them anywhere yet). I did have one canned elemental. I threw this in round one and put other protections on, then ran up to her in round 2. Right in front of those snarling fearsome teeth. I thought she'd swallow the whole party in one bite! I just stood there and slashed away at her 900+ points while the water elemental did some heavy damage. Her spells seemed weaker this time than in my first encounter, I didn't see Earthquake or Tsunami or Mind Flay (or whatever it was). I wonder if this is because I started battle right next to her instead of at a far distance?

[Bad Mr. Frosty]

i can see your point vapra.
But i wasnt all completely spoiled about nessie
i had just read a few of the posts where people shared how hard it was.
Mostly i didnt even read lots of the posts, just saw the post's subject.
So i imagined that nessiem the buccanneer ghosts(which were also soo easy to kill) and the davey jones locker where somthing that happened towards the end of the game.
i imagined that nessie was gonna be a super almost end of the game boss. since i kept hearing about light swords and exalibers to be what u got from her chest.
Si i was dissapointed that it was soo easy, i was loooking forward to finding her later on and having her be some big lieviathan that would bring me to the brink of death just to kill her.
Thats all.
Besiedes i think i was mad that all i got was some crappy axe.
strong axe but with a -6 initiative, plus no one uses axes for me.
so worthless
If i would have known i could go back and reenter the sea and kill her again and maybe get exacliber i might have tried that, but like i said i wasnt even expecting nessie yet. so i didnt save prior to killing her.

[Annheiser]

Nessie goes into melee almost exclusively if you draw up close to her, which is a good thing.

Earthquake isn't all too terrible compared with Concussion, IMO. With resists, she'll do say 10-30 damage per character where with Concussion she can do upwards of 80-100 to one member and can KO him/her. Of course, complete reversal when YOUR party uses it against other mobs, different story.

[nekoshippo]

Nessie is easy to kill,if you can cast 7 level Elemental Shield spell.

[Vaprakgruumsh]

Heh - BMF (lol, I like that) ...

I can fully understand. I knew not where Nessie was but knew the general area of her location (what 'zone' she was in) - so I was prepared and was still thrilled to find her (thought she looked awesome).

While beating her and checking the chest, I didn't get Excalibur. I even fought her three times. Didn't get it (and I had restored to outside).

My wife, who got Cane of Corpus (as did I, but didn't have any Ninja Faerie) and Excalibur.

So when I replay the game, I am gonna beat Nessie into the ground until she hands me Excalibur.