Imprisonment

[SpongeBobTheDestoyer]

Originally posted by Legolas The Magnificent: any other convincing answer around here? .... or maybe tips to kill the demilich KANGAXX the horrible one. thanks, Legolas Greenleaf

Well, I can tell you what I did to beat the horrible one. So for anyone who hasn't faced him and wants the battle to be fresh DONT READ THIS !


BTW, my difficulty setting was on hard with tactics, if that changes some things. First of all you need +4 or better weapons to hit him if I recall. In his first form he casts most of the usual lich spells, time stops, summons, PFMWs, ADHWs, etc. Once he changes into *gasp* the demi-lich he gates in a rat which I thought you had to kill in order to beat him but that's not true. Every round it seemed like he cast a time stop, then two teleport fields, a spell trap and a wickedly named spell that I don't remember. When he's not casting that he's just shooting imprisonments one after the other, improved alacrity style.

On to my strategy crap. My PC was a mod kit creation that was immune to imprisonment, I don't know if I would have beaten him this month if not for that. He's protected. Edwin can cast spell immunity abjuration, so he's cool. Solafein can cast it too but his wore off without me noticing. Bye, bye Sola I'll see you later. My assassin has use any item HLA so he used a SI abjuration scroll. I had Viccy in my party and couldn't protect her. The Shield of the Arcons won't stay up very long when he's got a semi-auto matic impruziment rifle. So I used my ring of the ram against his first form to push him off in one direction since he can target anywhere in the room from the center spot. I had Viccy hide at the other end raising anyone who bit it. In order to get around the teleport fields one should wear the boots of speed with improved haste or greater whirlwind or haste potion and run like hell. A dispelling weapon like Carsomyr, SotM or an Unholy Reaver helps. I used the last one. Summons are pretty much toast. Basically get as many fast melee hits in as possible because he doesn't cast any PfMWs. He just regenerates something fierce.

What else. Oh, having the item upgrade mod and turning daystar into a +4 weapon sealed the deal. Kangaxx probably wants a piece of the guy who made that mod. Better not go into any undead tombs Weimer.

[SixOfSpades]

Wizards and Bards can laugh at Imprisonment all they want, because Spell Immunity is such a damn useful spell. Berserkers are free to giggle all they want as well, because their Berserker Rage lasts more than long enough to take down a Demilich.

IMPORTANT: Berserker Rage grants immunity to Imprisonment.
Barbarian Rage does not.
Do NOT get them mixed up.

All other classes are going to die very quickly in the face of multiple Imprisonments, since the only methods available to them [Shield of the Archons, Book of Infinite Spells (Spell Turning), Ring of (Minor) Spell Turning, Rod of Absorbtion] can only block a very small number of 9th-Level spells. And I've heard that Improved Kangaxx uses Teleport Field, which is going to be absolute HELL if you're trying to keep your more defenseless party members out of the line of fire. I guess that purchasing some of those Protection from Undead scrolls wouldn't be amiss in this one case.

Originally posted by SpongeBobTheDestroyer: ....I've got it a little easier because my PC is a Demon Knight, which is a fighter kit from the Improved Battles Mod.....

Huh? That sounds like the Tactics MOD, but the only new kits in that are the Fighter Archer and the Anti-Paladin. What's this Improved Battles MOD?

[SpongeBobTheDestoyer]

Originally posted by SixOfSpades: Huh? That sounds like the Tactics MOD, but the only new kits in that are the Fighter Archer and the Anti-Paladin. What's this Improved Battles MOD?

I like it a lot so far. To me it's like having another tactics mod installed. Go here http://moonfruit.fwstudios.net/