problems with jaheira

[vesselle]

this is at the druid grove.
she's lvl 10/12 and can't beat that shadow druid leader. she beat her with no problems in previous 3 run thrus, but this time it's miserable.

first off, it takes her approx 4 attempts to pick up that stoopid staff. i always thot that was lame. shadow girl comes equipped with it, but not me. nooooo. this allows badgirl to cast several spells while i try to remember basic motor control and pick that thing up.
then i noticed something else odd. if i cast insect plague on shadelady, it does constant 1 pt dmg, but she still gets spells off. if i get the insect plague cast on me, i have the constant dmg and i can't cast because i cant concentrate.

any tips on this? i don't know why it's playing out this way.

thanks.

V***V

[Memnoch]

Are you casting insect plague or summon insects? Summon insects only has a 50% spell fail rate.

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[Melusine]

Also, make sure Jaheira has cast some defensive spells on herself beforehand, and let a mage cast some protection on her. Then, when she is transported to the pit she at least has her protections on (use Iron Skins for example)
And I think Memnoch is right and you are using Summon Insects. Insect Plague is 5th level, Summon Insects 3rd level.

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[Melusine]

BTW what do you need the "stoopid staff" for anyway? If it takes you that long to pick it up, why don't you use that time casting a good offensive spell? Then you could always pick it up later when Faldorn is busy with dealing with your spell.

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[Gustave]

Last time through, I just turned Jaheira into a bear and mauled the druid leader..

[Dundee Slaytern]

Originally posted by Gustave: Last time through, I just turned Jaheira into a bear and mauled the druid leader..

I summoned a Fire Elemental AND 2 Mountain Bears,

Yes, you do have enough time to do this, the Shadow Druid Leader takes a few rounds to cast her defensive spells.

The resulting carnage was gut-splitting funny. Oh, and if time permits, cast Insect Plague as well.

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If not a Sorcerer, then a Paladin.

[Nazgûl]

miscast magic.

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and the sky will rain fire...

[Sigmar]

This section may be the only place in the entire game where Cernd comes in useful. Just change him into a werewolf and watch the leader die.

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"Well Sigmar, I am Tiax the chosen one of Cyric, destined to ascend, I shall rule all!"
"Do you know you have a duck on your head?"
"Duck what duck......ahhhhhhhh!"

Tiax, warmaster of clan HADB

[JR Jansen]

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The call woodland being spell is also useful here. Cast it and let the woodland being cast hold person on Faldorn (seems to always work, i haven't seen her save vs spell once) while Jaheira is summoning up elementals/animals. To top it cast something like flameblade (or somesuch spell). Really easy to beat a held druid that way.

JR

Damned i lost cousin Jan's techno gloves

[Melusine]

You can delete your own replies JR Jansen!
I will wait till you read this and then delete my own

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Melusine, High Queen of Fluffies, Archbabe of the OHF, the LH,
the HADB and the SPAE(Society for the
Prevention of Acronym Extinction) &
Official Entertainer Elf of the BG2 Bar

Your voice is ambrosia