Killing ol' Boney, the easy way

[robertthebard]

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Let him kill himself...I used my lvl 5 rogue/10 assassin/5 shadowdancer, and the arcane spell *off of a scroll* wounding whispers, which does 1d6+1 per caster lvl of sonic damage to attackers that hit you, and the +2 astral blade, and 12 heal potions, lol. I cast ghostly visage, and shadow evade, for lower chance of being hit/dmg reduction, and got busy. Only died about 4 times, but the golem was doing 11 and 12 pts of dmg to himself. We died at the same time on the last round of his life, but he was dead.

[Larry_OHF]

Thanks for the tip!

[TheCrimsomBlade]

As they say there is more than one way to skin a cat or in this case to kill a skinless Bone head:

YES Another possiable SPOILER for those that can't use Magic. Go no further if you don't wish to be SPOILED.
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For those of you that don't have access to Magic or scrolls and can use a one handed Hand-Axe then stop buy the store you find inside the Yawning Portal Inn and check out a Battle AXE called Venom It delivers from 10 to 36 damage with each hit on OL Boney and with a little luck you can bring him down fairly fast:

VENOM
Battleaxe
Base Damage: 1d8
Base Critical: X3

Special Properties
Damage Bonus: Acid 2d6 Damage Keen
Massive Criticals: 1d10 Damage

I have taken out The Giant Big Bone Golem on level 2 ( Ol Boney) a number of times with that AXE and the Mirror shield.

As for the other bone golems in the Undermountain the Venom Battle Axe tears them up in 4 or 5 hits.

The Acid bonus the weapon has is a very big help. I tried the same attack with a more powerful axe without any Acid Bonus and it did no damage, then again I tried with Acid Arrows, they are worthless. I put more than 100 Acid arrows into Ol Boney and he never even got any kind of injuy from them.
I think it is the combination of acid and massive criticals that the axe generates that kills the bone golems.

[ 09-29-2003, 08:41 PM: Message edited by: TheCrimsomBlade ]