Mephistopheles (spoiler)

What character were you playing?

I beat her once with a paladin/rdd and it was shockingly simple really. I was expecting things to be much more difficult. With vampiric equipment, regen equipment, a high ac from equipment plus divine shield (around 68 iirc) etc. I wasn't hit too often. My persuade and charisma I guess let me keep Aribeth around. I used two heal potions I believe and my strategy consisted of running up and whacking him with a big hunk of metal.

What option did you choose afterwards?

This time I'm playing a straight classed wizad. My fall back plan will make it so that it isn't TOO terribly difficult I think. If all else fails, I'm planning on extended acid sheath plus extended elemental shield plus extended death armor plus greater warding. Rinse and repeat with premonition since greater warding is a once per day deal. I'll use some heal potions this way and throw around as many spells as I can to see what I can come up with but the key to this fall back plan will be letting myself get walloped. We'll see if it works : )

 

Lessee... the one and only time I played, I had a Paladin dual-wielding long swords (Enseric and a Holy Avenger), both were heavily modified by the smith.

My strategy consisted of casting "holy avenger" on Enseric, and wielding the Avenger in the off hand, add to that the Divine Favor feat (over and over again, with my charisma as pumped up as high as possible). With the feat and the spell, I had a *considerable* amount of magic and divine damage that goes straight through Meph's damage resistance with every hit.

I had Aribeth and Valen, and Valen betrayed me, but he only lasted about 2 seconds past the word go.

With an occasional heal potion Meph got crushed without even so much as a close call.

 

I had no trouble with him at all, although I was playing on easy difficulty so I guess that made the most difference. My 27th level fighter and Deekin just tore him apart. He got a few hits in but nothing special and the 50 heal potions I'd bought from the pit boss kept me out of danger.

 

I didn't have much trouble. I was playing a Paladin X/ RDD 10 / Sorcerer 1 build, so I was immune to fire, had super stats, items that boosted my CHA sky high (for awesome saves), and an assortment of keen, beefed up weapons to switch around from. Aribeth and Deekin were in my party.

It took about 10 minutes and a few heal potions, but yeah - he went down the first time I fought him. I had dumped points into Persuasion with every level, so I had no problem convincing both Aribeth and Deekin to stay on my side. Having them in the battle certainly helped. At this point, Deekin was a full-blown RDD (also immune to fire) and I gave Aribeth a ring of epic fire resistence and a few other items to boost her elemental resistances, which are Meph's primary attacks IIRC.

 

Smacked him down with a Weapon Master and 2 Acid Katanas.

Used the True Names to keep my henchmen faithful.

Mephistopheles is not immune to Acid.

 

Do he have different damage resistances on different difficulty settings? I'm sure I heard someone mention that he has damage reduction of 45 and yet I managed to hit him for 30-40 points of damage on most hits, which would equate to 75-85 points of damage on anyone without damage reduction.

 

Just used his true name and took everything over for myself , the power was too tempting and i was corrupted.

 

I just punched him up with my monk fists. The problem was that I didn't even know about things like the powder. But, how did you guys get his true name, when I asked the knower of names she said that she couldn't or wouldn't tell me. What's up?

 

The Gatekeeper knows his true name but won't reveal it unless you have *his* true name from the Knower of Names.

[ April 02, 2004, 17:04: Message edited by: david w ]

 

you can also command the Knower to tell you his (Meph's) name, if you in turn, know her name

 

Well, my Fighter/Rogue/Weapon Master took him down quite easily actually. He doesnt seem to be immune to criticals, and with two weapons that are keen and have the Massive Criticals property, it was no problem. Crit range 10-20 (or 11-20, cant remember. None-the-less, he was mashed)

 

It does seem to be either too easy or too hard.

My Arcane Archer had some trouble, but I had acid arrows with which to keep Big M softened up while I fed Heal potions to my meatshields Deekin and Aribeth.

 

I "bought" the loyalty of both Nathy and Valen, so my tactic for defeating M was as follows:

1. Buff myself to maximum while in Hell, buff henchmen as well.

2. Teleport to Waterdeep, I keep my buffs, henchmen lose theirs (?)

3. Henchmen start fighting M (and his friends) in melee. I ignore M but attack his friends if they're around.

4. Summon everything I can to help fight M. Try encouraging henchies to heal by giving them Heal potions when they get in the red.

5. Both Nathy and Valen end up getting killed at least once; use Rod of Resurrection to resurrect them so they go back to work. Used it like 5 times in that battle.

6. Since I had a really bad build of a mage, NONE of my spells have any effect (no epic spells)... thats why I just stood there, resurrecting the henchies.

7. At some point M goes Neutral to try and "talk" but I fail to stop casting a spell in time; that spell hits him so he goes hostile again without letting me read his dialog...

8. Kill him, finish the game...


In short, a pretty annoying battle and I didn't care enough for it to re-try. Just opened the module in the toolset and read all the possible dialog options M had.

 

I had a Druid 10/17 Shifter, so I justed kept morphing into a minotaur who did quite a bite o' damage, and criticals doing a hundred and so. I spent all my coin on potions of heal after I got the necessary true names. It took a while, but persistence and patience finally brought down the bloody hulk. Granted, Deekin and Aribeth needed some resurecting because Meph enjoyed picking on them. After about a half hour or so, about 30 healing potions (for me alone), and a lot of blood, he was vanquished.