Hardest/Worst encounter so far?

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Without revealing too much, what has been the toughest encounter so far for you?

I definitely had problems fighting Madelan's (sp?) assistant in Chapter 1. His Ice Storm absolutely devastated me, every time. After a few times, I drank a potion of Haste, Cat's Grace, summoned everything I could and went in guns blazing. He never had a chance.

In Chapter 3 I entered a house requiring me to break wards in order to banish a Lich. The build-up (for another Kangaxx) was hopeful but in the end I was sorely disappointed. They just don't make them like they used to anymore . Hopefully I shall meet a Lich of the same stature soon.

But I must say that the worst encounter for me so far was a meeting in a brothel with (of all people) another Jansen .

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The absolute horror came over me when my pally and stupid Tomi encountered Brother Toras and his undead fanclub. While the undead were a piece of cake Toras was of a completely different calibre. 15 reloads

Of course Toras first dispelled all my protections and enhancements. He was easily able to deal out 45 damage in a round with flame arrow or a similar spell and that's how it normally went: Toras was stone- or barkskinned and I had to wear off that first - without spellcaster support. Inbetween Toras then casted hold person on my pally and then started casting acid arrow, magic missile till my char was dead - usually at a point when he had managed to bring Toras to near dead Toras. And then there was the problem with Tomi ...

Maybe I was a little too low level (lvl-10)for that encounter - anyway, it was really annoying and it greatly depleted my supply of potions and healing kits. Since Tomi never considered to use a healing potion I had to heal him instead of fighting to prevent him from beeing killed, leaving me unable to open the chests left in that dungeon, fun, fun, fun

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The mummies in Quint Jhareg's tower. Met three of them, and I failed my fear check. So I start running. Through a room with three more mummies. More failed fear checks. Ran through a room with four curst rangers. They give chase. Still unable to control my character because of the fear, I run through about six rooms and end up with eight mummies, six curst rangers, and some other assorted undead all standing around my helpless character. Thank Tyr for a 32 AC.

 

With Toras I filled up on spells, and yes, I'm a fighter. I used Summon Creature (lvl 3 and 4) also used the recall stone when he negatated my spells. Recall, Heal and attack and so forth.

 

Well, I guess I was lucky with Toras. Aside from Linu's little blunder he went rather quickly for me. Of course, I was a 14th lvl Paladin at the time which does help.

 

one word: dragons

 

I still have not encountered any dragons as of yet . I've fooled around with the DM client and I've seen what an Ancient Red Dragon can do. Certainly would be impossibly hard to beat but I love challenges.

I shall relish the chance of meeting one.

 

I ran into a battle devourer the other night and man it took me a loooong time to kill it. it absorbs the first 20 dmg and i could only hit it on a critical.
so in order for me to dmg it i had to roll a critical then do more then 20 dmg with that hit or it would say weopon ineffective (which it said most of the time)
so every 5-6 criticals i hit i would do dmg once.

Ran into my first Dragon today and those suckers are tough. although the battle devourer took me longer to kill it really wasn't much of a threat to me cause it missed as much as me and didn't do alot of dmg. but that dragon was insane. i think i went through 15-20 cure critical potions.
hope i dont' see to many more dragons

 

A Balor i met with on a multiplayer module.
It took me about 20 min to kill, and it kept respawning. The 3rd time it respawned, it would'nt die after nearly 1 hour of combat!

 

Dragons are indeed tough. Anyone tried to kill the red dragon in Chapter 3 yet? TOUGH! He's impossible.

 

I killed the red dragon in chap 3 he wasn't that hard actuelly i found him easier then the white dragon in the snow globe.

make sure you give him the tainted dead dragon globe first though so he starts off badly wounded.
he does hit damn hard though! 145+ dmg on that fire breath! nasty.

however i met up with I think it was a hill Giant champion and he was damn hard! so far he is the hardest guy i've faced with my char. took me a long time to kill him and lots of running and hiding and resting and then sneak attacking. I think he killed me like 10 times which is the most any monster has done to me.
Guess it depends what class you are as well.

 

The dragons are clearly the toughest things I fought, though some of the knockdown using champion guys were pretty nasty too (despite my having max discipline and a +6 Discipline item!).

I had a hard time with the Red Dragon even after giving him the poison sphere. I can't imagine taking him out without doing so. The white dragon was pretty tough, too, but the Amulet of the Ages helped a lot there. The improved power attack and knockdown attacks those dragons use are very nasty. If I didn't have a Greater Swordsman's Belt, I'm sure I would have died. It was close a numerous times as it was.

Aloha
Vormaerin

 

just fought a half-dragon balor lord and he was $%@$% hard!

 

Hmm, the White Guardian Dragon was a bit of a letdown for me. It was almost the same as a fight with a Battle Devourer.

I found it hard to hit the Dragon, but it seemed that it had a harder time trying to hit me. So we were pretty even in that case. It's breath hardly damaged me, so the both of us just took swipes at each other. After some time, I got bored, so I recalled Sharwyn (who had died earlier in another quest), summoned my Animal Companion (I'm a Druid), Awakened it, and finally summoned a Huge Water Elemental. The only ones who seemed to be hitting and doing real damage was my bear and the elemental.

Then, I turned up the difficulty to Hard, and finally, it turned into a challenge for me.

I hope the Red Dragon won't disappoint.

 

The Red Dragon was definitely harder than the white dragon, which is not surprising considering that white dragons are the weakest species around. And this particular Red Dragon is perhaps a bit more than your average ancient Red.

Also, I play on 'core rules' or whatever the next up difficulty from default is called. It definitely makes a difference.

aloha
Vormaerin

 

hmm, my hardest enemy. That would be the weak goblins. LOL

 

Ha ha Izlude

Anyway, I found that a Balor Lord you fight eventually in Chapter 3 to be the hardest so far for me. Harder than the Dragon, I must say. Even before the fight I was already injured and without spells (Druid), I thought I could kick anybody's ass. Looks like I need to rest up before fighting it .

 

the final battle is quite a setup. if you get surrounded, your so dead...

 

I just finished the prelude so realy I have only fought goblins. Dang slow comp, thats why Im so far behind everyone. But finnaly I conviced my mom to let me upgrade our RAM.