Black Draggon

[TaSSaDaR]

Got a VERY BIG PROBLEM - that Black Dragon in chapter 7 near the elven city. He just KILLS my 18-th lvl berserker, even with Dragonslayer longsword equipped. How did you people kill the beast?? Even if I summon fire elementals, genie, demons etc he still gets no more than 50 damage before all them die...

[whacky]

Once i used monk's insta kill, once i used lower resistances/ malisons(wrong spelling ) with multiple finger of deaths until one worked, then i used a solo cavaliar to beat him, but in all cases if you want to beat it, first avoid its breath weapon and wings, secondly use free action, that guy loves to bing you first

[Dundee Slaytern]

Welcome to the Ironworks Forums.

Who is in your party, and what are their levels?

[TaSSaDaR]

Edwin 16 maybe. Aerie 14-15. Minsk 16 with Silver Sword, Keldorn 17 with that +5 gem
The problem is that i cant cast magic resistance on him to lower it - he attacks my poor Aerie on sight (even invis) and his breat is still too much to be taken easy by her. Any demons/summons stuck in his entagle-like spell...

[TaSSaDaR]

Ah, also forgot Imoen 15 lvl with Gesen bow.

[Dundee Slaytern]

Originally posted by TaSSaDaR: Edwin 16 maybe. Aerie 14-15. Minsk 16 with Silver Sword, Keldorn 17 with that +5 gem The problem is that i cant cast magic resistance on him to lower it - he attacks my poor Aerie on sight (even invis) and his breat is still too much to be taken easy by her. Any demons/summons stuck in his entagle-like spell...

I was never a fan of the Priest spell, Magic Resistance, anyway. It is not a tactic, and thus not adaptable. I vastly prefer using the Mage spell, Lower Resistance. It is a level 5 spell, I assume either Aerie or Imoen in your party has it.

If not... time to backtrack a little and do a "little" scroll shopping. You can still exit the Elf City now by the way.

Edwin and Imoen are level 15+, excellent. They can use the level 3 spell, Animate Dead and call forth several Skeleton Warriors. They are 95% magic resistant, immuned to normal weaponary, physical damage resistance, immunity to psionics and mind spells, etc... ...

Use Mirror Image for Aerie( and both Edwin and Imoen) to minimise damage. Mislead is a good spell for her to use beforehand as well. Since Minsc is using the Silver Sword, get Aerie to Doom( level one Priest spell) the Dragon, while either Edwin, Imoen or Aerie again cast Greater Malison( level four Mage spell).

Use Aerie to cast Free Action( level 4 Priest spell) on Keldorn and Minsc before the fight, if they do not have Free Action by default already.

Whenever a party member is injured to half-life, gulp a health potion. Do not wait until it is too late.

Lastly, cast Haste on everybody, including the summons.

ADD] Oh, I forgot to mention this. Use your spellcasters to cast Ruby Rays of Reversal, Khelben's Warding Whips and Breaches to remove the Dragon's spell protections so that Keldorn and the summons can injure him.

[ 08-27-2002, 02:13 AM: Message edited by: Dundee Slaytern ]

[Hayashi]

Originally posted by Dundee Slaytern: [QB Edwin and Imoen are level 15+, excellent. They can use the level 3 spell, Animate Dead and call forth several Skeleton Warriors. They are 95% magic resistant, immuned to normal weaponary, physical damage resistance, immunity to psionics and mind spells, etc... ... [/QB]

Dundee
Is the Priest version of Animate Dead identical to the mage one, in terms of the type of skeleton warriors that are summoned?

[daan]

*trying to sound dundee-ish*

Yes

[TaSSaDaR]

Thanks! I will try those all out in a day By the way, what is the area of effect of wing buffet ability of the lizard?? And how would I counter it? Being thrown away gives the dragon time to heal itself, negating all my efforts.

And what is the counter to that black dragon breath?? what resistance affects it?

[Legolas The Magnificent]

i found out that the best way to fry those big lizards is to be out of their sight while you secretly burn their scales. dont let the dragon see you, cast speels such as incinerating cloud and some sorth before you attack the lizzard. summon animals or monsters to busy it while you set them on fire...