Badguy, Goodguy ratio 400:4 (Fortress Cave SPOILER)

[Nanobyte]

Originally posted by Nightowl2: Being two levels back really hurts, particularly for sorcerers.

Now you're mixing the two. Tieflings have a 1 lvl penalty, which was my ranger/sorceress. My drow was a cleric/mage. Anyways, I'm gonna try to make the perfect party before I run through this again (how many times now?). I'll post it to see if it will be as successful as my last.

[koz-ivan]

Originally posted by Nanobyte: When does this get a little easier? It took me close to 3 hours to defeat 2 ice trolls, an elite orc archer, a goblin shaman, an ogre, and one named orc shaman. Now I've gotten farther into the fortress, the caves where you find the wooly spiders, but gosh dang what the heck am I supposed to do? My party is:

power attack -> it's in your special abilities you click on it once and then you get 6 options, o,1,2,3,4,5 what ever number you select is a to hit penalty and a damage bonus. it will stay on until you select 0.

re party construction, ecl or multi spell casters are likely best avoided, or minimized, a level or two of a secondary class can be a great addition, but be careful of the 20% penalty.

spell selection - i notice you don't have many spells that focus on whole areas, in the caves spells like grease, spike growth, web, entangle (i don't recall if that one works undrground) but those spells can tie up the hordes of goblins, while you pick away at them w/ missles + mass damage spells like fireball or even the snowball swarm or burning hands.

also those grenade type potions, flaming oil, lamp oil, explosions, ect. can mitigate your lack of spell power, and they help clear out the crowds.