Firkraag

[TaSSaDaR]

I tried to kill the beast with the use of the tactics... Useless! It just heals itself, heals like mad! So the steps you'd like to take is lower its magic resistance and saving throws, and finger of death/death spell it. Alternative is harm, or simple and rather stupid engaging it in melee (very difficult way for me, although my berserker could slay ANY other beast in the game 1 on 1 without even enraging)

[Legolas The Magnificent]

try to stay out of his sight while you cast your spells such as incenarating cloud etc.

[TaSSaDaR]

Hey, those spells are a bit too high-level-ish... By the time I met the beast i couldn't even cast a disintegrate!! All I was limited to was 5th level cloudkill... But still worked PRETTY good harm tactics, which later on i also used on shadow one...

[Aurum]

Use creatures, eye wizard?, weapons dragonslayers, once, round-up him, attack per flamk, back, front, etc..

[Malavon's Rage]

or i could just suggest one word: SLAYER, sure its a cheap way to beat him but...wow is it effective

[Tyranny]SiN[]

I just stood around him and summoned Skeleton Warriors, and Spiders. I used my Sorceror to lower his resistances and my Mage to feeblemind the bastid as well as constantly barrage him with ray of enfeeblement. My fighter qaulfed a few potions - Invulnerabilty, Storm giant strength, and Clarity and I pummeled him still he imploded.

[TaSSaDaR]

A tactics trued on a black dragon: You lower the resistance/throws, then just feeblemind him and go and kick the beast - it wont reply! It was a fun to see a big massive ugly powerful dragon stand and take damage without any actions etc

[LennonCook]

The important things to remember:
1) Protection from fire is very useful against that dragon breath...
2) Spread your characters out around the dragon to avoid his Wing Buffet.
3) Fire based spells are useless.
4) He casts haste and stoneskin early on. Thus, use haste yourself and breach to get past the stoneskin.
5) Summons can help, if you choose the right ones. Fire Elementals are effective, because they resist his dragon breath.
6) Firkraag has high magic resistance. Lower it quickly.
7) Magic Missle can do wonders.
8) Use the abilities of all your characters, for example: if you have mages, cast spells; if you have thieves, lay traps and lead Firkraag into them.
9) Try to avoid using limited charge items until you desparately HAVE to. ie. don`t use a potion of extra healing if you suffer 1-2 HP damage...
10) There are some items you find around the place that do extra damage vs dragons. The Dragon Slayer Longsword comes to mind. Use them only if you are proficient in them.

[Kaltia]

Firkraag is a toughy. he may cast stoneskin on himself and some other attacks. Cast the 5th level priest spell Chaotic commands on your tanks, as he likes to cast chaos. Buff your party up-I suggest Bless, Chant, resist fear 20'' radius, and haste. Make sure you have potions on all of your party members. Ultimate cheese is abusing the wand of cloudkill, which seems to ignore target magic resistance. On your clerics and, if you have them, ranger/ paldin, cast armour of faith and resist fire/cold. if your PC is a fighter of any class, have him use his special ability draw upon holy might.
Spread your party out and prepare by summoning minions by the bucket load. if you still have the wand of monstyer summoning from Irenicus' dugeon, use it only when your spell summoned creatures die.
Lastly, be prepared to reload a few thousand times.

[Karse Soze]

I heard somewhere that if you cast "magic resistance" (NOT LOWER RESISTANCE) on the creature, it will actually take the 90% magic resist it has and replace it with around 20% (which is what the spell "magic res." delivers), due to a bug in the game.

I know it's almost like cheating, but to some it might seem helpful?!?

Personally, I summoned a whole lot, buffed Keldorn and Minsc, and had a whole lot of magic missiles in memory. But I must say that I was really thankful for "The Wand of Resurrection" when the whole thing was over [img]smile.gif[/img]