Temple Sewers

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Help? I am in the second room of the temple sewers going up against a nast gang of mind flayers and an umber hulk. I'm dead within the first couple of seconds. Any suggestions?

 

Most of my characters are 10th level. What is a good level to be on for this part of the game?

 

Thanks! That will save me some time. I am sort of new at this and unfortunately I have not played ever played D&D, nor have I read many of the books.

[This message has been edited by Satiana Fearbringer (edited November 21, 2000).]

 

Spoiler bout mind flayers in sewers
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you dont need to do the mind flayers part yet, but incase you wanna give it a shot, have someone memorise chaotic command (its the that counters all those spells) anyway it works well vs flayers(cast it on 2 attackers), you need summons(2 of em) now, open the door the umber hulk attack the summons the flayers will all bunch up near the door as well as kill the summons. keep your party in the room before, and lure the hulk, then you can kill him, then lure the flayers 1 by 1 and kill em like that. this is only for low level, i was level 10 doing this so my tactics had to be a little differnt. But it worked and something tells me thats how some battles were meant to be won, by luring the harder guys away. If i was level 13-15 i would have charged with potion of clarity...(which normally works)

 

well its a mix of both, i just completed this quest for the most part with my fighter, with the Fury and -10 ac, i did the lureing with him.. and then went alone into a room of 4 flayers (kill the umber hulk) and he killed em 1 by 1 (potion of invunrbility +5 to saving throws(cast prerification protection first) and you have pretty much a fighting force) and i was level 11 at the time.

 

I did not know about the caotic commands, but I dealt with them anyway.

My strategy was to summon and keep summoning diffent kind of beasts and animals and then stand in the background using ranged attacks.

regards from Denmark

 

Cool. Thanks for the tips. I think I will just pass it by for now and come back when I have a little more power under my belt. I was off to the unseeing eye quest anyway. But, you have been most helpful, and I will try some of those tactics when I return.

 

This is actually a pretty good set up here. I didn't know this place existed until one of my friends brought it to my attention. I didn't realize it could be so envolved, or that I could find a place to ask questions or learn about the game. That probably sounds silly to you guys who having been playing along time.

 

Another rather simple tactic to avoiding the mind flayers irritating psi-beams is to cast a lot of pets/monster and let them take the damage cause a mind flayer will attack a stunned monster and then just pin them down with long distance weapons, easy and very rewarding for low level partys.

 

I tried that once, but even with haste, I couldn't get my party member back before they stunned him and killed him. I have the wand of resurection, but I don't like to use it unless I am really close to winning a hard battle that I don't want to loose, and I lost a party member to get there.