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Animate dead question

Discussion in 'Icewind Dale 2' started by The Great Snook, Jul 28, 2003.

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    [​IMG] Is there any way to determine what gets summoned when you use this? I seem to only get greater boneguards and I believe zombie lords. I see people posting about apocolyptic boneguards. How do you get them or do I need to be a certain level to get them. My sorc is around 20th level.
     
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    My understanding is the latest patch capped the level of the Undead that gets summoned. Apparently Apocalyptic Boneguards made things too easy.
     
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    Animate dead got nerfed ? it doesn't say in the fix list !. But then again developer did that sometimes. More reason to choose Shades over it then, or does shades got nerfed too ?
     
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    It did get fixed. I've not patched my game as the UK release is 2.01 which I thought was the patched version.

    As I've only had one major problem with the Dragon's Eye bug which I'd already replayed when I realised, I thought nah, keep the apoclyptic boneguards. They're the nuts.

    Not sure if they re-appear in a patched HOF game though?
     
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    We spoken about animating dead (and about the spell itself): Shades are not undead If i am right.
    (At least they do not have the resistances of Undead)
    They are summoned material parts of creatures from the demiplane of Shadow.
    Shadows are undead, but I think there are weak creatures even at high caster level.

    The most used summoning is spell is Animate Dead of course.
    Apocaliptic Boneguards appear only at very high level.
     
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    yes the apocalyptic bonerulers appear at highlvl ... but this is casterlvl related.
    so if you start a HoF game whoops there they are ... with stats of a HoF boneruler. that is why they are taken out.
     
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