WOOHOOO, Finished Ascension !! *spoilers*

daan · 10-19-2002, 12:30 PM

Finally did it !!!
I'd never actually finished Ascension yet, though i must say that i found the Solaufain-Hell-battle a lot harder than this Ascension-last battle.

My party consisted of:
me - cleric/mage 25/20
Tichondrius - sorcerer 31
Sarevok - fighter 37

I gave Sarevok a death-ward, PfME first, then proceeded to cast a protections on myself with IA. Then a spell-trigger (Holy power, righteous Magic, Improved Haste) + Chain-contingency (aura of flaming death + 2x Storm of vengeance).

Put my last Protection from magic scroll in the quikslot, Cast Simulacrum and made Sarevok Completely Immune to Magic for 10 minutes

My sorcerer then casted a few buffs, and made some PI's cast wish untill we got the rest-option ( altered some spell-selections first).
Than made him cast a CC ( 3x PI ), cast PI, and had all PI's cast
Spell Immunity:divination.

Unleashed my spell-trigger on myself and began the fight, ( note that i hadnt broken the energy-stream yet .. the moment i did, it restored all spells again)

Sarevok equiped the Soulreaver+4, since i didnt want either Balthazar in particular or anyone else, hitting me.
I had the Flail of Ages +5 and the cloack of mirroring
Tichondrius had the SotM + cloack of Non-detection.

__________________________________________________ _____________________________

Fight starts:

Me and my simulacrum cast Immunity to Time-stop ( ability attained by stopping the power-flows). While two PI's cast time-stop in rapid succesion.

Time-stop -1- : Balthazar is immuned to, so he's free to attack the charging Sarevok ( he was supposed to disrupt Balthazar). My Simulacrum takes on Balthazar, while I cast Energy-blades and start throwing ' em at balthazar.
-ooops-, forgot about my PI; starts casting stuff at Balthazar.

Time-stop -2- This time I'm in control of the situation, Balthazar is out of sight chasing my simulacrum he kicked so hard that he flew about 300 yards

I am still immuned to Time-stop and beat Illasera to near-death, and heal Sarevok ( handy spell that). Also i cast CC again, again filling it with ( aura of flaming death + 2x Storm of vengeance).
My PI does all he can to make sure Sendai isnt finishing that Time-stop she's casting right now. It works ... he manages to kill Sendai on his left hand, peppering Balthazar with Melf's AA's, and killing Illasera on his right hand, as well as summoning 2 Fallen Planetars ( a little cheese ).

Balthazar has completely healed himself .. yaga-shura is taking a very long time to get damaged and Abazigal is still trying to hit something, but it really isnt working thanks to a GWW with the soulreaver

Mellisan appears,uses true-sight, and i guess my SI

ivination ran out ... bye bye raw Fire-power. Mellisan casts Time-stop ...
!!!NOOOOOooooo0000000000!!!
I knew i shoudnt have backed off Balthazar, he's immune and starts killing Fallen planetars and severly damaging Sarevok, mellisan is having a REAL blast with me.

Enough is enough

I and Sarevok concentrate fire on Balthazar, he dies in 3 rounds .. Abazigal manages to retain himself 2 rounds before dying.

My sorcerer casts Wish 5 times and peppers Mellisan with Melf's AA's, fire-arrows, LR's, RRoR .. hoping that the rest-option will show.... It DOES !!

Mellisan's being a bitch, so send myself to keep her busy .. while Sarevok is beating on a Near-death Yaga-shura ... 2 minutes later we are both beating on a really near-death Yaga-shura ... 4 minutes later we are beating on a REALYY REALLY really near-death yaga-shura ( arghhhh ), untill he finally caves in.

Melissan's been damaging both Me and sarevok in the mean while, but she's unconscious for now. My sorcerer is useless, since he threw all he had, but didnt get the rest-option again.

A long fight between Melissan me and Sarevok starts, but she's definetly losing. She then starts throwing -Unleashes- at me, so i retire from the battle, cast a simulacrum and proceed to beat the crap out her
John-Woo style

Oech, she's near-death and a Time-stop goes off outa nowhere .. I'm afraid now, since we're all pretty damaged .. but the M's AA's combined with my rather late coming electrical damage from the FoA, do her in,.. the split-second after the Time-stop goes off ( triggered event for when she dies ? ).
Anywayz, no harm done .. and I'm victorious !!!

P.s. Sarevok gulped about 5 potions of greater healing during the fight and Used 8 GWW. I gulped about 3 and Tichondrius never got damaged.

Probably left out a whole lot, but it was a pretty intense fight, too much stuff happening [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Alson · 10-19-2002, 01:36 PM

Congratulations Daan!! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
Nice writing, too.

Ascension is fun, isn't it?
All tactical battles are...
Improved Irenicus is indeed better, though.

How many reloads?

[ 10-19-2002, 01:39 PM: Message edited by: Alson ]

daan · 10-20-2002, 06:34 AM

One,.. but that was because i got impatient and skipped half of the whole
pre-battle buffing .. I also forgot to cast Simulacrum.
The difference between to Me's immune to Time-stop and One Me is quite amazing

Yorick · 10-23-2002, 03:14 AM

Well done!

Zarr · 10-23-2002, 10:25 AM

Yeah well done daan!

pcgiant · 10-23-2002, 07:57 PM

WELL DONE!

Wumpspawner · 10-23-2002, 09:09 PM

Okay, here's the question that's gonna get 'Newbie' tatooed on my forehead... What this Ascension everyone's talking about?

andrewas · 10-24-2002, 06:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wumpspawner:
Okay, here's the question that's gonna get 'Newbie' tatooed on my forehead... What this Ascension everyone's talking about?

A mod that alters the end battle into something a little more chanllenging. You sould be able to find links to it from www.teambg.com . Get the weiDU version, its more reliable. Its not for newbies though, extremely tough. I havent finished it myself.

jcompton · 10-24-2002, 12:18 PM

Go right to the source for WeiDU Ascension. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~weimer/bgate/

Dundee Slaytern · 10-25-2002, 01:30 AM

Good on you, daan.

10-19-2002, 12:30 PM	#1
daan Silver Dragon Join Date: August 25, 2001 Location: - Age: 39 Posts: 1,644	Finally did it !!! I'd never actually finished Ascension yet, though i must say that i found the Solaufain-Hell-battle a lot harder than this Ascension-last battle. My party consisted of: me - cleric/mage 25/20 Tichondrius - sorcerer 31 Sarevok - fighter 37 I gave Sarevok a death-ward, PfME first, then proceeded to cast a protections on myself with IA. Then a spell-trigger (Holy power, righteous Magic, Improved Haste) + Chain-contingency (aura of flaming death + 2x Storm of vengeance). Put my last Protection from magic scroll in the quikslot, Cast Simulacrum and made Sarevok Completely Immune to Magic for 10 minutes My sorcerer then casted a few buffs, and made some PI's cast wish untill we got the rest-option ( altered some spell-selections first). Than made him cast a CC ( 3x PI ), cast PI, and had all PI's cast Spell Immunity:divination. Unleashed my spell-trigger on myself and began the fight, ( note that i hadnt broken the energy-stream yet .. the moment i did, it restored all spells again) Sarevok equiped the Soulreaver+4, since i didnt want either Balthazar in particular or anyone else, hitting me. I had the Flail of Ages +5 and the cloack of mirroring Tichondrius had the SotM + cloack of Non-detection. __________________________________________________ _____________________________ Fight starts: Me and my simulacrum cast Immunity to Time-stop ( ability attained by stopping the power-flows). While two PI's cast time-stop in rapid succesion. Time-stop -1- : Balthazar is immuned to, so he's free to attack the charging Sarevok ( he was supposed to disrupt Balthazar). My Simulacrum takes on Balthazar, while I cast Energy-blades and start throwing ' em at balthazar. -ooops-, forgot about my PI; starts casting stuff at Balthazar. Time-stop -2- This time I'm in control of the situation, Balthazar is out of sight chasing my simulacrum he kicked so hard that he flew about 300 yards I am still immuned to Time-stop and beat Illasera to near-death, and heal Sarevok ( handy spell that). Also i cast CC again, again filling it with ( aura of flaming death + 2x Storm of vengeance). My PI does all he can to make sure Sendai isnt finishing that Time-stop she's casting right now. It works ... he manages to kill Sendai on his left hand, peppering Balthazar with Melf's AA's, and killing Illasera on his right hand, as well as summoning 2 Fallen Planetars ( a little cheese ). Balthazar has completely healed himself .. yaga-shura is taking a very long time to get damaged and Abazigal is still trying to hit something, but it really isnt working thanks to a GWW with the soulreaver Mellisan appears,uses true-sight, and i guess my SIivination ran out ... bye bye raw Fire-power. Mellisan casts Time-stop ... !!!NOOOOOooooo0000000000!!! I knew i shoudnt have backed off Balthazar, he's immune and starts killing Fallen planetars and severly damaging Sarevok, mellisan is having a REAL blast with me. Enough is enough I and Sarevok concentrate fire on Balthazar, he dies in 3 rounds .. Abazigal manages to retain himself 2 rounds before dying. My sorcerer casts Wish 5 times and peppers Mellisan with Melf's AA's, fire-arrows, LR's, RRoR .. hoping that the rest-option will show.... It DOES !! Mellisan's being a bitch, so send myself to keep her busy .. while Sarevok is beating on a Near-death Yaga-shura ... 2 minutes later we are both beating on a really near-death Yaga-shura ... 4 minutes later we are beating on a REALYY REALLY really near-death yaga-shura ( arghhhh ), untill he finally caves in. Melissan's been damaging both Me and sarevok in the mean while, but she's unconscious for now. My sorcerer is useless, since he threw all he had, but didnt get the rest-option again. A long fight between Melissan me and Sarevok starts, but she's definetly losing. She then starts throwing -Unleashes- at me, so i retire from the battle, cast a simulacrum and proceed to beat the crap out her John-Woo style Oech, she's near-death and a Time-stop goes off outa nowhere .. I'm afraid now, since we're all pretty damaged .. but the M's AA's combined with my rather late coming electrical damage from the FoA, do her in,.. the split-second after the Time-stop goes off ( triggered event for when she dies ? ). Anywayz, no harm done .. and I'm victorious !!! P.s. Sarevok gulped about 5 potions of greater healing during the fight and Used 8 GWW. I gulped about 3 and Tichondrius never got damaged. Probably left out a whole lot, but it was a pretty intense fight, too much stuff happening [img]tongue.gif[/img] __________________ <strong> Odi et Amo. Quare id faciam facisse requires ? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior </strong><br /><br /><strong> Amantem cogit amare magis, sed bene velle minus </strong>

10-19-2002, 01:36 PM	#2
Alson Galvatron Join Date: December 14, 2001 Location: Israel Age: 38 Posts: 2,187	Congratulations Daan!! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] Nice writing, too. Ascension is fun, isn't it? All tactical battles are... Improved Irenicus is indeed better, though. How many reloads? [ 10-19-2002, 01:39 PM: Message edited by: Alson ] __________________ In memory of Ilan Ramon - the first Israeli astronaut.<br /><br /><br />[url]\"http://members.chello.nl/~j.vanthull/BG2SR/Home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">BGII Spells Reference</a> - everything you ever wanted to know about spells!

10-20-2002, 06:34 AM	#3
daan Silver Dragon Join Date: August 25, 2001 Location: - Age: 39 Posts: 1,644	One,.. but that was because i got impatient and skipped half of the whole pre-battle buffing .. I also forgot to cast Simulacrum. The difference between to Me's immune to Time-stop and One Me is quite amazing __________________ <strong> Odi et Amo. Quare id faciam facisse requires ? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior </strong><br /><br /><strong> Amantem cogit amare magis, sed bene velle minus </strong>

10-23-2002, 03:14 AM	#4
Yorick Very Mad Bird Join Date: January 7, 2001 Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam) Age: 53 Posts: 9,246	Well done! __________________ http://www.hughwilson.com

10-23-2002, 10:25 AM	#5
Zarr Symbol of Cyric Join Date: June 19, 2002 Location: Northern Ireland Age: 41 Posts: 1,330	Yeah well done daan! __________________ Minsc - \"Don\'t ask questions better left to aged sages\"<br /><br />\"You must gather your party before venturing forth\". BANG shoots him dead

10-23-2002, 07:57 PM	#6
pcgiant Symbol of Cyric Join Date: July 11, 2002 Location: NZ Age: 38 Posts: 1,268	WELL DONE! __________________ If possible, I want to relive my life... not as a devil. This time, someone like you.

10-23-2002, 09:09 PM	#7
Wumpspawner Manshoon Join Date: September 25, 2002 Location: St. George, Utah Age: 49 Posts: 166	Okay, here's the question that's gonna get 'Newbie' tatooed on my forehead... What this Ascension everyone's talking about? __________________ \"I\'m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.\" - Walter Slovotsky

10-24-2002, 12:18 PM	#9
jcompton Elminster Join Date: May 29, 2002 Location: USA Age: 48 Posts: 453	Go right to the source for WeiDU Ascension. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~weimer/bgate/ __________________ "(I)t's a testament to the determined RPG fraternity that a number of Baldur's Gate II mods have been successfully produced. The best can be found at pocketplane.net." - PC Gamer UK

10-25-2002, 01:30 AM	#10
Dundee Slaytern Ironworks Moderator Join Date: June 10, 2001 Location: Pasir Ris, Singapore Age: 42 Posts: 11,063	Good on you, daan.

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