Stop the incessant clicking!!!!

[Wyvern]

Originally posted by Too Darkpark: here's a nice tip for defeating the banshee in the trial of the elders: lure her into the narrow corridor where you fist enter this area but make sure to kill any of the other weaker spirits in the immediate area before doing this. once you get the banshee in the corridor save your game and quit. reload your game after which you'll notice that those spirits aren't being generate anymore. now corner that banshee in a corner of the corridor and start attacking her. get about 4 or 5 attacks on her (or 4 attacks and a combo if your skill is high enough) than block as soon as she raises her arms to cast her spell. you CAN block her spell with a shield but only if you're close to her. occasionally, she might make a swing at you instead of casting her spell in which case take the opportunity to attack her some more otherwise it's a straight forward pattern: attack, block, attack, etc...

Great tip, Too Darkpark!!!

Did you add it to the BEST TIPS thread???!!!???

[Bungleau]

ROTFL @ Ziroc! I really don't want to think of the possibilities there...

Bows are nice, but they just don't quite match up to a sword. Perhaps I haven't found the right bow yet, but I'm doing some 3-5 points of bow damage versus 6-15 points of damage with my sword. Sometimes, you've just gotta get up close and personal...

Finished up the elder trial last night, and I'm going to head over to pick up the moonstone before going to Ulm. And sometime, I've got to get back to Fargrove for my Enchantress promotion... I hope it will be useful.

[Too Darkpark]

Wyvern,

I didn't add it to the Best Tips thread only because it's not a general tip that will help someone throughout the entire game and could potentionally spoil the trial for someone.

welps! I finished the game and I can confirm that there are no mantraps but there are tree monsters which are large walking trees that throw branches at you and those branches hurt! ouch! they'll knock you down and stun you for a second.

after having gone through the game i'll say that there isn't a single monster that's difficult to defeat but a few are annoying and fighting a large mob of them can be frustrating.

[johnny]

In addition, the AI of all monesters is pretty retarded, the Banshee for instance tried literally to come directly at me, so i lured it to the part of the dungeon with the cage. I stood on one side of the cage and the Banshee tried to go right through the bars, which naturally didn't work. So i just fired arrows on it from my side, and every now and then i went for a quick melee attack, and then fell back to my place behind the bars, since i was all out of healthpotions at that time.

The one in the pillar room must have been thinking it was too close to fire arrows at me, and too far away to hit me with a sword, because it just stood there, watching me hit it to bits from the last pillar before the entrance.

The one at the end of the waterway passage, fell in the water after one or two strikes, and after jumping in the water and cornering it, it just stould there, waiting for the final blow.

All in all not very exciting, and indeed quite a lot of clicking, but the XP from killing those three creatures made up everything (almost 2,5 million points)