The Wise Wind

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I (sort of) defeated it, but how the hell do you do it?

I got the fellas to help but since I felt like luring it into the library I ran away and reread the book. While "rereading" the thing cast its Timestops and then by the time I got back, the wizard dude had killed it, singlehandedly!

As a warrior, how the hell was I supposed to kill it?

 

I played through as a pure fighter and just hit it again and again till it died. I had a ready supply of healing potions and these certainly helped but I don't remember the Wise Wind being that much of a challenge.

 

Knockdown works wonders on that one.

 

I think that it cast stoneskin and I just couldn't damage it with a +2 battleaxe. Perhaps it had something to do with murdering the wizard in hell?

 

He didn't cast stoneskin when I attacked it... all it did was couple lightning bolts and it went down like a sack of oreos... luck is part of the game

 

That's damned strange. The Wise Wind killed Karsus, the Knight guy, and kicked the living hell out of my PC. I beat it with almost all my potions gone and 2 HP left as a melee fighter.

 

I had to reload so many times that I forgot the number. I did 0 damage to it and it not only cast 2 Timestops it cast some storm type spell that raped me repeatedly with about 30 electrical and acid damage as well as stun every round until I was a smouldering heap. I had no way of defeating it so I ran. Then come back and it was dead! How the hell can a non magic-user survive it? What are its "stats"?

 

I suspect that the selection of story and/or the way you do it makes a difference, perhaps even alignment?

 

I seem to think when I fought it I might well have had the difficulty set to easy which naturally made a difference to the fight. But I didn't have too many problems with it.

Are you able to flee from the fight? I discovered in NWN, you could often flee from an enemy, rest up out of sight, then head back and carry on the fight with yourself back up to full HPs but your enemy still wounded. I don't know if this works in SOU or even if you're able to flee from this specific fight but you could certainly try.

 

Yes, you can flee from the fight - go into the hut (with lightning for a door) and it will take you back to the library, where you can go back in again.

 

I had to flee from it a couple of times before I figured it out-what I had to do was shoot it full of +something arrows and run around after it while I did that.
Not the most adventurous of tactics around, but it worked pretty well for me.

<Sorry forgot to mention I was a bard and was curse songing it all the time.>

[ March 21, 2004, 22:59: Message edited by: Amatorius ]

 

I wasted all my offensive spells as a sorcerer to no good, ending up firing various arrows for 0 damage every time. the thing that saved me was that the mage that tag's along from hell never died?? He took all the damage, while never going below near death!

 

That is plain ridiculous. I have a feeling that the story you write and or the selections in the Hell part make the difference.

 

Or perhaps.... your level? The game adjusts itself in some encounters after all.

 

If the Wise Wind adjusts itself to your level, then shouldn't the fight be of equal difficulty no matter what level you fight it at? In the sense that it will be a weaker version for a low level PC and a tougher version for a high level PC?