The Death of Firkraag

I did it with 3 lower resistance spells and my main, minsc and vaylgar on differnt sides... barely ever hit, but when i did, I did 20 damage a shot.

 

I just bought a finger of death scroll, used greater malsion and got lucky.

 

Great Job! My first time through BG2 I laid traps and only one did any damage. But you hit on something that saved my party that time through, Lightning wands.

I had Nalia and Aerie equipped with them and after a few scrolls of Breach and the like I let go a couple of streaks each by them and that was all that was needed. Great strategy used by your party!

 

The most usefull weapon against dragons I can think of is that magical sword that can attack on its own. (the one the mage can cast) If the dragon attacks it it won't be able to kill it so it will only waste its anergy. In the meanwhile your other characters can attack it the way you want them too. Although I must say I only foud that spell once

 

good job and all but whatever you do dont call yoshimo "yoshi"

 

BTA, you still play this game????

Good job!

[Wow. Coming up on a year since I wrote that! - BTA]

[This message has been edited by Blackthorne TA (edited October 15, 2001).]

 

I havent played Baldurs gate in a long time but i just started a new game with an elf archer ( is it true i cant have a romance with Vicona). On my old game i beat firkagg when my party was around ll 10 without any cheats. It took a couple of days to devolp the right strategy. Sorry i cant remeber alot it was along time ago.

My new game i have an elf archer and i changed his alignment to neutral evil with shadow keeper. I have an evil party. I have Vicona, Jan, and that dwarf with the high hp. Once i got out of the dungeon in the beginning i went too the circus and got the charisma ring and arie. Then we kill that group in waukeen promade. the key is to charm one of the group members with the ring. I went to kill denis and his friends around lvl 9 i had my evil pary by this time. I charmed the cleric with the ring than i had the cleric charm another person that is how i won. I di not cheat at all except for changing my alignment.

I got alot of nice arows and item from jan drinking a couple of thieving potions then we go on a stealen spree. Does an archer do high dmge at higher lvls because now he is doing 13 dmg at lvl 9. Is it true that elves cant have romances with Vicona

[Yes, Elves and Drow hate eachother - BTA]

[This message has been edited by Blackthorne TA (edited October 15, 2001).]

 

yes, firkraag's AC must be ridiculously low - the only hits i got in were criticals, and after what seemed like eons, my party of PC (fighter/thief), jaheira, haer'dalis, cernd and aerie only got him down to "injured"

how he died: after multiple doom spams (i didn't have greater malison), aerie let just one chromatic orb fly and petrified the big red beast

needless to say, all his items turned to stone and all that was left was a pile of gold

since i wasnt planning on using carsomyr, i guess it didnt matter, but i was nevertheless quite pleased with the effort of my party (no one had over 90 HP, and no one was a true fighter)

 

Yeah, I trounced him at around level 10/12 too (after beating on the shadow dragon ). Nalia cast Chaos on him and he ran into the corner. Keldorn, Mazzy and Sebastian the ranger proceeded to slap him about until he went down.

 

Thats why his "scales" are the best armor in the game! Very low AC.

 

Truely enough a party around level 10-12 can beat Firkraag eventually without even taking a scratch by using lower resistance spells, lightning bolt staffs and magic missiles while summoned creatures protected with Otiluke's Resilient Sphere keep him busy. Or you can try and do the dirty job yourself counting on your good luck and the "load" button. Personally I consider both ways non fair. Normally a well-developed party should be able to dispose Firkraag with the first try having used all the best -at that time- spells,abilities and items and being severely wounded, which happens about at level 15. Besides, thats the point in battling with a Dragon or a lich: to have a really tough battle and a proper reward. Of course since there are "cheesy" ways of wining it is supposingly "right" for the players to use them, but I still believe Black Isle should have been more predictable in this part.


[This message has been edited by nske (edited October 17, 2001).]

 

Eh traps do the trick just fine =)

 

Except for the fact that in real life, a dragon would be seeing a thief set snares around him, sleep, set snares, sleep, etc.

 

yup yup =)

god bless AI

 

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Yes, this one is a spam too. So?

[This message has been edited by Extremist (edited March 08, 2002).]

 

Why should we stop?this topic as been resserected twice!and it gives me a chance to say how I was very lucky and changed the shadow dragon to a squirrel with polymorph other.....he was much easier as a squirel.....now to look up how to spell ressurection.