The Guardian

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Defeating the guard dragon is a tough one for me... Can't cast protective spells and I must defeat him otherwise the portal won't open... I use all my +3 weapons but I can only injure him barely...

 

The portal remains open. You can clear out the temple below to complete the quest. You get a bit better XP if you return to Kuldahar having killed the dragon, but you can return all the same. Later, you can travel back through the portal to finish the dragon. Then the portal will close soon.

As for the dragon, attack spells are resisted, so rely on buffs and summons. Summons buy you time, because they will distract the dragon sometimes, just don't expect them to do much damage. Cast buffs to strengthen your attacks. Prayer, Recitation, Mass Haste, Bless, Emotion: Hope, Stone/Iron skins, Mirror Image, Blur, Bull´s or Champion´s Stength. Oh, and turn off Power Attack. You´ll do fine

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Afterwards, check if your entire party has gotten the quest bonus. Sometimes it doesn´t kick in if a member is panicked or something.

 

My quick save starts in the temple ( needed healing ) and the dragon is lurking outside... running to the portal doesn't help because it's closed

 

Do you have the required spells? Perhaps you can rest in the temple. Summons aren´t strictly necessary, the buffs are more crucial. If a character is near death in the battle, don´t underestimate the usefulness of taking a step backwards so the dragon will retarget. Then heal and re-enter combat

 

When I rest in the temple to heal, the guardian heals too .. About My spells ..the guardian is very quick to target my spellcaster

 

*Search the forum* and you will probably find answers to all your questions....and probably answers to questions you didn't know you had. Slaying the guardian certainly has been a popular subject over the years. Good luck.

 

Three ways of Guardian removal:

- Disintegrate and/or Finger of Death. Cast Malison/Prayer/Recitation just before if you want to improve your chances of success.
- Lower Resistance followed by lots and lots of lightning magic. Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Glyph of Warding, Call Lightning, Static Charge, you name it.
- A tank with Armor Class 50+ will ultimately solo the lizard for you.

Note that you NEED +4 or better weapons. There's a whole lot of them available in Kuldahar. Place your summons around the place where the dragon spawns to protect your own.

 

cast all the buff spells I listed before you re-enter the jungle map from the temple. You should have a good chance of defeating it in melee. Unless you're short on +4 weapons... The +5 returning shocking axe is very useful at this point, set it to melee; it's useful against golems and the dragon.
The only guaranteed useful attack spell is Faerie Fire (ignores resistance, no save); it will lower the guardian's AC by 2.
You shouldn't need to cast many spells in combat, and those you'd need to re-cast (skins, mirror images) are fast casting.

When I said take a step backwards, I didn't mean to leave the map and heal up. I meant that the near-dead character retreats, the rest block the dragon so he attacks another, and after a cleric/druid quickly Heals the character, it rejoins battle.

 

Jukka, you forgot "Haste+MI+Mordy's Sword+run around a lot".

Helps if you have two sorcs, so one can run while the other hits.

 

JT, tru dat. Althoug I WAS thinking of the most obvious ways of doing it first, not doing some half-marathon with a hundred-foot lizard in hot pursuit kind of deal.