How to kill liches

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Robe of Vecna, Dragonbreath, loot the bones.

 

Pierce shield, dispell magic, bash bones into dust, walk away with a smile.

 

Inquisitor, Cloak of Cheese, Carsomyr. Add scroll of protection from magic if necessary.

 

High level good or neutral cleric, turn undead.

 

Pierce shield, Breach, Dragonbreath, and my warrior and Keldorn phisically attack lich. If lich is spelling new spell your wizzard has to spell Breach or something similar. a few seconds and lich is dead.

 

Show yourself to get its magical protections rolling and run away. Wait for those protections to worn out and bash him.

 

1) Prot. from magic scroll + IMoD

2) Wait 'n bash

3) Prot. from Undead scroll + any magic weapon(does not work on Kangaxx though)

 

Reduce lich's hp to 0 or lower

It still does, though not with the improved Kangaxx

 

Cloak of the Sewers, tansform to mustard jelly, and let Ole Stale Breath waste away on you with spells that don't affect you, because of the 100% magic resistance provided by the mustard jelly form. Let him use everything that he's got and transform back and procede to beat the unliving piss out of him with magic weapons. This is for a low level char and party.

High level just dispel his protections and beat the hrll out of him or use high level clerical spells, like False Dawn, Sunray, or Turn Undead. Sunray can also be provided by Daystar and seeing as its an innate ability of the sword it can be cast almost instantaneously so theres almost no chance of disruption and you can roast him before he can protect himself

 

@Thyorna: Didn't know that mustard jellies had 100% MR. Thanks for the tip. You saved my day.

[ August 12, 2004, 11:41: Message edited by: Mayfairy ]

 

@GI:

Kangaxx has some dialogue before he dies, and if you use the Prot. from Undead scroll he won't be able to talk to you, and therefore, he won't die either...

 

Liches are immune to spell level 1-9, so, in rough order in which they appeared:

Pierce Shield
Dispel Magic
Breach
False Dawn
Sunray

All will have no effect. However, chev's use of Dragon Breath will work, as Dragon's Breath is an HLA, and thus, considered a level 10 spell.

Turning into a mustard jelly works.

Using protection from Undead (after he turns into the Demi-Lich) or using Protection from Magic are well documented ways of defeating him.

You could probably turn him with a cleric, but we're talking about a REALLY high level cleric.

The other really common solution which I haven't seen mentioned yet is cast the mage spell: Spell Immunity, and then chose Abjuration as the school to protect against the imprisonment. Then cast Melf's Minute Meteors, and take him out.l

 

I believe this was about killing liches in general, and, iirc, they are not all immune to lvls 1-9 spells.

 

Plant all the traps you've got. Shish kebab-ed lich.

 

I'm pretty sure only demi-liches are immune to spells 1-9.

 

Carsomyr, n'uff said... The only lich i had a problem with was the one in amkethran, the dude who summons a load of other grisly undead. But then again, if you are a high enough level, any lich will get turned! For a demi-lich, a scroll of prot. from undead works fine with me!

 

Liches are immune to spells 1-5, not 1-9. Of course that means you can't breach or dispel magic them, which makes their PfMW spell pretty nasty--unless you have MoD, of course.

 

@Bluerose and Eric

My bad. It's level 1-5 for regular liches, it's level 1-9 for the two demi-liches. Generally speaking it's the two demi-liches in the game that people have trouble with. Other people have brought up the demi-lich before I posted so I thought he was fair game as well - should have specified I wasn't talking about all liches though.

@Thor - Carsomyr is great until the demi-lich casts Imprisonment on you.

 

@Faraaz: If you have ToB installed (I assume it is, as this thread is in ToB section) it should pretty much take the cheese out of that trap trick.

 

I forgot the Spell Immunity: Abjuration aldeth thats generally the easiest against Kangaxx, but as everyone else has said normal liches can get fried by a good ole False Dawn or Sunray