how do you beat the battle arena?

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I suppose it depends on which end you're looking at. Anyway, this is a debate for a different thread, let's get back to the battle square advice eh?

 

Oh Yes. For those interested take a look:

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You can do it right till you meet Oswald at his landing outside the Underdark. You can tell him you still have things to do, when he wants to take of.

For those who are not aware of the items you can win in Battle Square, take a look of this:

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Rank 1: Dragon's Belt (+3 Reflex save)

Rank 2: Potion of Holy Transference (+2 Wisdom, -1 Dexterity)

Rank 3: Abishai Hide Armor (Medium Armor wth 5/+1 damage reduction, +7 total bonus)

Rank 4: Boots of Grounding (6/- electrical resistance)

Rank 5: Throwing Axe of Shocking Burst (returning axe with +5 enchantment, +1d6 electrical damage and 10% of additional 1d10 electrical damage)

Rank 6: Club of Disruption +3 (+5 enchantment, Undead and outsiders are destroyed if they fail Fortitude saving throw)

Rank 7: Ice Spear +4 (+4 to hit, to dam, encht, cast Icelance 1/day);

Rank 8: Composite Longbow of Empowerment (random bonus to stats when struck in melee)

Rank 9: Aegis Scroll, Wand of the Dead (50 Animate Dead charges);

Rank 10: Resurrection Scroll, Short Sword of Brilliance +5 (negates Armor and Shield bonuses)

Grand Prize for completing all ranks: Bracers of Icelandic Pearl (Armor +4, DEX -2, cast Water Elem, Cone of Cold, Horrid Wilting 1/day)

 

why do you say plural? you only get to use 1 character for each battle. at least that's what's happening to me.

 

It's only cheating in an unpatched game. If you have your game patched the spell works as described.

 

True, the patcher makes it weaker, but its hellishly powerful anyway. Its fine to use on a single char, such as a devoted sneak attacker or scout, but not for a whole party. To me, its like using Otiluke's Resilient Sphere to collect monsters around a char and bombard the living **** out of them. Quick, easy, and requiring not the least bit of brainpower or game management. What's the point of playing if you're gonna use these tactics?

 

TACTICS is the operative word there! HOWEVER, if you want to discuss what constitutes cheating in the game then start a new thread on the board. This one isn't here for debate, it's here because somebody wants advice and I know I'm as guilty as everyone else for starting arguments but please finish it now and get back on subject!

 

To be honest it's simple enough for a 4 or so member party. Reload against harder monsters/crits, be patient, etc. Can't say the same for 6 member parties, though. It should still be doable, but it'd be like trying to guess a 50-sided die roll and not stopping 'til you get it right.

 

Number of party members doesn't matter, only 1 char does the fighting. The others are locked in a separate room, and become entirely inaccessible.

 

True.

Except for the times where a Greater Feyr or other outsider teleports in where your remaining party are, and they have to finish it off.

 

What I didn't like about the battle arena was the sheer number of these challenges. I'd have to calculate it to figure out how many of these mosters you'd have to face, but I'm sure it amounts to hundreds of battles.
I never completed these challenges fairly: the first time I just ctrl+Y killed most monsters, and in HoF I just used the 'Skip Battle Squares' option added by a mod.
I guess I just lacked the patience for it. I love the game to bits, but I do want a change of scenery, so I get the feeling that I'm progressing.

 

Its 25 battles per rank, times 10 for the number of ranks. That's 250 battles. If you include the reloads, it should come to somewhere around 600 battles easily (fought or unfought, depending on how far into a minute you reload).

 

Yeah. It does take a lot of patience.

But I end up doing it every time anyway because of the prizes.

I need to rent a life.

 

It gets pretty tedious after the easy ranks. When I went through it, I used Stoneskin, Improved Invis, Champion Strength, Haste and probably one or two other buffs that I cannot remember right now on my Barbarian using Power Attack 5. I think it took about 2 or 3 days for me to finally finish it. It's definitely worth it as there are a number of items that you get that you would use for quite a while afterwards.

 

The point is this: Experience. The more party members you have, the less each member will get.

With only one character doing all the fighting it makes more sense that a higher level character is gonna have a much easier time in the battle squares than a lower level character, right? Unless you've only filled the other party slots with mule characters.

Which is why the squares can be very difficult for 6 member parties. Especially if you use mainly ECL races.

 

Not to mention if you do all the battles you end up with a BUNCH o' money when you sell everything you don't need.

GOLD. . . . SHINY SHINY GOLD ! ! ! (Uhmm, sorry, my dwarven side got a little out of control there)

 

Just curious - did the author get through the BS already?

If not, I need to know, if he is in Normal or HoF mode?

 

i made it through the battle arena. i just did the first set of battles to get the key and that was it.

 

Good decision =) It saves so much time in front of the monitor.

 

I always use the scripts and every single time I forget to turn them off for this so if I'm using a guardian script, the character always wanders off to see his friends. You'd think I'd have learnt by now!

 

Well, I just made it through the battle squares a second time now (with my second party). By the time I got to rank 9, I got really annoyed and turned the difficulty level to the easiest.