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Kuroisan and the "Red Badge" encounters are the hardest for me, because I never have any Protection from Acid/Poison spells when Kuroisan finally decides to spawn; and I always lose Kelsey and Aerie during the first parts of both the battles, making the rest of the fight really hard.

BTW, I don't know if it's a part of the Tactics or Solaufein mods but that encounter where the party gets abducted by a bunch of guys that tell you their plans in detail and then attack...but that's a hard one for me too.

 

Would that be the Eclipse fight?

The most overpowered weapon in the Sola Mod would be Sola's +5 MoonBlade, IMO. That, dual-wielded with the Acid Katana, would be a real pleasing sight to see.

 

Kuroisan is easy if you have a full party and have the improved city encounters as you get lots of potions of invisibility and trigger it after coming back from the Sahuagin city. If Kuroisan has a glaring weakness, it is that he doesn't cast True Sight. You will notice my earlier post.

Same with the Red Badge encounter. All team invisible, go to one corner of the map and about 3 of the bad guys (the one with the stunning spear is not one of them fortunately) chase you that can see invisible so you can deal with them first. I like to trigger it in ToB so I can rest in the pocket plane safely before going back to finish them off. Imprisonment helps to narrow it down to 2. Kill them. Cast freedom, then kill the imprisoned one. Time stop and have your mages take care of the 2 remaining baddies.

[ January 12, 2004, 04:46: Message edited by: jeremiah ]

 

About Kuriosan... His script makes him run away for a bit so make your party hide except a thief or char that can do heavy damage in one round and the ability to go invis anytime.

Arrows of dispelling take down his stoneskin (he has about three) so you will have to go invis for at least 3 times (also remember to wait out the prot from mag weapons - he doesn't cast it if your invis) and then two to four backstabs should do the trick (be quick though as once you start damaging he will run away if he get low in hp)

It might be a good idea to equip a non-magical waepon so once the stoneskins are gone, you can keep on hitting regardless of his protections.

 

Can someone please answer my questions?

 

As long as you have not been to the maps that spawn them like the docks for the lich, the Sahuagin city for the Improved Sahuagins and similar, they should be okay. But if you already visited a map I don't think it works very well.

At least the Ilyich mod doesn't seem to work well when I start the dungeon before I install the component. But when I start a new game, it works as advertised.

The Tactics mod is compatible with a lot of mods as it is weidu. Only the Unfinished Business mod seems to conflict with the gnome in Valygar's home component of Tactics that I have seen so far (I think they intend to fix it in UB).