Underdark too hard

[Warby]

How do you defeat them damm mind flayers?. Do u need to have that spell that protects you from the death spells?. I just keep on being slaughtered. I managed to escape with half of my group and ran into the earth gollum who killed another. Its getting iritating. How can I fight them?

Warby

a cheesy tactic is to shoot a cloudkill into a room with mindflayers and then close the door


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[Dundee Slaytern]

I use the following tactic.

Summon 5 Skeleton Warriors, cast Death Spell on Uber Hulks, Skeleton Warriors make sushi out of the Mind Flayers. Your party can help too by assisting with ranged weaponary.

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[Lord Arn Dragonfire]

have u tried chaotic commands? I think it's a clericspell...cast that on a tank and rule or....
summon critters have the flayers follow u and block the way with the critters and kill the flayers with rangeweapons

If u r playing a Paladin and have all possible xp and speedboats try run and hit it's hard but fun

[deathknight]

Also mordenkainens sword works well on them. Its immune to all of their attacks. If only the duration was longer. The skeleton warriors work nice but you need to make sure no umberhulks are demolishing them. if you use wizard eye you should be able to send in your summoned creatures to safely fight.

[Kitka]

a cloudkill spell wil instantly kill all umber-hulks. that makes life easy. if you want to toe up to illithid, carry potion of genius in a quickslot, as what kills you is having intelligence of less than 3. if you see the little red curly symbol on a char, check the stat page to see what your intelligence is. if lower than 9, drink up a potion of genuis.

[Luther]

Originally posted by Lord Arn Dragonfire: have u tried chaotic commands? I think it's a clericspell...cast that on a tank and rule or.... summon critters have the flayers follow u and block the way with the critters and kill the flayers with rangeweapons If u r playing a Paladin and have all possible xp and speedboats try run and hit it's hard but fun

Damn straight! Cast the cleric spell 'Chaotic Commands' on your men and the Illithids have NOTHING on you. You can carve through them at your leisure. Seriously, without their mind control/ mind damaging abilities they have no real offensive attacks on you, you can get through a vast number of them without a scratch (but still watch those umber hulks, they are tough cookies even without their confusion abilities).

[Mahlennacht]

Cloudkill the Umber Hulks straight off, for sure. Chaotic Commands is standard procedure for psionic blast, but I think in the Underdark you also might be able to get some *salt water* to protect against psionics as well...

[If you're REALLY desperate (maybe short on good spells) and don't mind a little wimpiness, try putting an invis character or two in a doorway to block them out, and throw things at them.]

[Amergin]

Originally posted by Rikard: a cheesy tactic is to shoot a cloudkill into a room with mindflayers and then close the door

hmmm. i always use cloudkills to get rid of the hulks but the flayers themselves seem to have damn good magic resistance and are rarely hurt if at all.

[mistral4543]

Deathfog might work better than cloudkill.

I've also read somewhere that a single death spell can slay a few mindflayers at a shot, so it may be worth trying...I haven't tested it yet, though.