Beating early chapter enemy opponents like Borda

[Squire The Hard]

During the first 3 chapters you will encounter difficult enemies who try to attack with swords or NPCs that need to speak to you before attacking you. In these cases take a party member to walk near it, draw its attention, and run away from it. Stay close enough so you keep its attention but far enough away so it can't talk to you. Let your archers do the rest. I first tried this against Borda (1 west of Naskel). He needs to talk before fighting (or using magic) so he chased me around while my archers pecked away until EUREKA!

[Bardan the Slayer]

The only problem being that you end up killing them before they go hostile and turn red, and I believe this means you only get 10% of the XP for killing them.

It's been a while since I ToTSC'd, though, so I *may* be wrong.

[Sir Heinrich Godfrie IV]

REMOVED DUE TO SPOILER.

Read the rules.

[ 06-19-2003, 04:43 AM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]

[Dar'tanian]

NO the one in Freindly Armwas easy wit an archer and a magic missle. The hard one was that little dwarf at the inn were u do that task for samia and brave brave sir garrick(beregost).

[InsaneBane]

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The mage at the stairs at FAI is easy if you manage to interrupt his mirror image spell. Otherwise - yes it is a hard battle.

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[SixOfSpades]

I can confirm that killing enemies when they are not Hostile to you earns only 10% or their normal EXP. A good rule, actually, I'm surprised they seem to have turned it off in BG2.

As for Tranzig, I *HATE* him. Not because he's difficult, but because he cheats. He casts 1 Level 1 spell (Magic Missile) and 2 Level 2 spells (Mirror Image and Horror). He also has about 12 hitpoints. These would seem to indicate a very low-level Mage....so why the hell does he cast Magic Missile at Level 9??? Think about it--a Level 9 Mage practically OWNS the Sword Coast--Thalantr himself looks to be about Level 7. Tranzig should have better things to do than hang out by a staircase all day, waiting to collect a whopping 120 gold pieces for your head. Why BioWare made his Magic Missile so powerful is beyond me--I would MUCH rather have him cast like a Level 4 Mage (2 MMs per casting) and have 3 Level 1 slots open, instead of this "I-get-my-spell-off-and-you-instantly-lose-a-party-member" BS.

[Sir Heinrich Godfrie IV]

Posted by: Dar'tanian NO the one in Freindly Armwas easy wit an archer and a magic missle. The hard one was that little dwarf at the inn were u do that task for samia and brave brave sir garrick(beregost).

The reason why I feel that the fight with Tranzig is so tough is because, at this point in the game you, at best, have only a two-four member party.

And on top of that, nobody in your party has better than a 25-50% chance of hiting even a SQUIREL!

But, after you have beaten him once or twice, he's obviously not all that difficult to figure out.

However, when you are confronted by him for the FIRST time ever, yep, he's one tough cookie.

[Link]

Tranzig is doable IMHO.. if you play it smart, then you can have the advantage of some guards hitting along with you. There are three guards at the Friendly Arm Inn that can help you out. Just make sure you deliver the last blow, and you'll get the XP! [img]smile.gif[/img]

And as was said: the Mirror Image is the little bugger that makes sure that you die (takes too long to hack it away).

[Vedran]

Tranzig is the bandit informant in Beregost. I am sure that that was lapsus digiti (I've mostly forgotten latin), Six, but I am surprised that it doesn't sound wrong to other people.

The mage you kill (I hope ) in FAI is named Tarnesh. He is fifth level Generalist. Memorized spells: 3MMs, 1 Horror, 1MI.
Why he does cast spell with five bolts, I can not fathom. It is not the scroll he cast it from, is it?

[Sir Heinrich Godfrie IV]

Posted by: Vedran Tranzig is the bandit informant in Beregost. I am sure that that was lapsus digiti (I've mostly forgotten latin), Six, but I am surprised that it doesn't sound wrong to other people. The mage you kill (I hope ) in FAI is named Tarnesh. He is fifth level Generalist. Memorized spells: 3MMs, 1 Horror, 1MI. Why he does cast spell with five bolts, I can not fathom. It is not the scroll he cast it from, is it?

Yeh, like I said in my first post, "I forgot his name", and when SixOfSpades called him Tranzig I considered that the 'official' 'last word' on the matter and didn't question it.

I did, however, know that his name started with the letter "T", such as: Tranzig, Tazok, or the other (which I could not recall) Tarnesh.

Anyways, thanks for setting us all straight Vedran!