Sendai (improved)

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I downloaded the oversight mod for the improved version of Sendai and I'm having a wonderful time getting my arse kicked thank you very much .

My party is probably one of the most balanced and poweful ones that I'll ever think of

Blade
R/C dualclass
Aerie
Imoen
Sola with Moonblade +5
Keldorn

It all goes as normal until the last clone Sendai thief where I lead her away with a magical sword so I can pocket plane and re-mememorize and re-organize, for the big one. So far I have not tried very many protections against her but she makes herself immune to elements weapons and magic, goes invisible, and makes herself Immune to divination and Abjuration so basically for about two minutes she is Immune to everything while she timestop's, Improved Alacricity and unholy smites/comets everything to oblivion. (btw I have the improved comet mod which makes it ignore MR)
And in the meantime I'm been overrun by about 20+ Drow warriors and wizards of high level and to be blunt I am getting ****ing pissed off :flames: the farest I have got is to the point where she comets half the sanctum and by then I have at least one person dead beyond raising which naturaly equals a reload, and I'm playing insane so does that make any differance to what happens and when?

 

Lots of summons worked for me. I got beaten a lot, but alas for her - not enough.

 

A couple Comet's should take care of the Drow Warriors, and if she's immune to Divination and Abjuration then hit her with any other spell school that's Area of Effect. I don't know how much MR the typical Drow have, but I don't think it's upwards of 75. Some spells should get through. Holy Smite would workg good because you can have you're fighters hacking away at her (once she starts casting she will become visible to the fighters).

At any rate, I had the same expierience with the Eclipse Encounter for the Sola mod and nobody here could really help me... so I think you'll just have to keep trying DIFFERENT strategies (don't try the same one over and over! I do that all the time ) and you'll get it eventually.

 

What difficulty is this guide for? I was playing on insane and she kept Dragon's breathing and Cometing the place while Timestoped. Honestly does she have Like 9999 of all spells every level? I don't think anyone except Elminster could beat her, is it even possible?

 

she used timestop 15 times against me (dont ask how, i dont know), but i still beated her.

just keep trying

 

Agreeing with Beren, I could only kill Improved Sendai if I managed to open her up to my hits in the first few seconds of battle.
I usually do this with someone using Melf's Minute Meteor's with Improved Haste (or Energy Blades) or simple instant-damage spells once I manage to pierce her protections. When the warriors score hits, it's then a matter of keeping her from casting PoM or dispelling it.
Her HP isn't exactly too high - the problem is that it's almost impossible to hit her.
I've tried waiting her out and she seems to be casting spells at level infinity (or she keeps recasting them).

 

In this battle, i think i had my Paladin with Holy Avenger beating at Sendai and the rest of my group kicking whatever was available to kick...

(Gotta love the Avenger... 50% MR, dispell every hit, 1d12+5 damage... I actually played a Paladin just to use the sword when you get(take) it from Firkraag)

 

I've tried Spell Striking her to hit her in the first few seconds, I even make sure that the caster is wearing amulet of power+Robe of Vecna and make her cast it just before her almost infinite spell protection triggers and hits her, but she is still invulnerable, can spell strike get rid of SPL IM:AB? and what difficulty did you play on?

 

Hardcore. I didn't want to kill her in a difficulty wherein she could kill me in a few hits should things go wrong.
Once she casts Spell Immunity: Abjuration, She's immune to Imprisonment and Spell: Immunity Divination + Invisibility will cause all your attempts to target her with spells to fail.
Casting Spell Strike or other Spells will bring down her Spell Immunity so Keldorn can just use True Sight on her whenever she tries to go Invisible, and will prevent her from using SIivination and Invisibility together.

You have to take other alternatives, ie Melf's Minute Meteors, Energy Blades, Melee attacks (especially from stat-Draining items or The Flail of the Ages) all in conjunction with Keldorn's Dispell.
Melf's at 10 attacks per round or Energy Blades can be devastating, causing spell failure.
Use the Ring of the Ram and the Ring of Energy to cause her to fail her SI spells.
Triggers are different - you have to wait some of these out, depending on what has been used in conjunction with another.
To enhance your party's melee capabilities, make sure your Bard has his images singing. (And protect these as well.)
If you manage to have Imoen to catch Sendai Frozen in time first (and she's under the influence of the Bard's song) you'll win this battle easily... unless my memory has failed me and this is also the Sendai who is immune to Timestop.
If this is the case, you need to bait her with someone with Protection from Magic or some similar protection so she rains down her Comets and spells on that and not on the party.

[ December 17, 2003, 02:44: Message edited by: Scythesong Immortal ]