Even though Oberon is only level 11, I decide to go for the planar sphere early so I get Aerie the ring of wizardry sooner. I swing by umar hills (doubling back once to return Rengfeld to the harpers) and pick up valygar. I use him to open the sphere then boot him from the party and grab yoshimo from the copper coronet as my thief. He's only got 160 000 xp though, so I buy two potions of mater thievery just incase.
The sphere turned out to be a cake walk, the battles went as follows:
1) Clay Golem was killed by tanking with spiders and shooting it with Melf's Minute Meteors.
2) Shauigan were killed by a cloudkill from aerie with a few extra damaging spells from Oberon.
3) The separate halfling warriors were hit with hold person and bashed to death.
4) Before the big group of halfling fighters Aerie and Oberon pre-cast Polymorph Self then stepped up to start the battle, Oberon flinging out a sequencer with 2 Webs and Aerie casting her other Cloudkill. They then immediately polymorphed into mustard jellies. Kayardi was the only one not held (protected by her globe of invulnerability) but she just threw all her spells on the mustard jellies as Anomen and Yoshimo were waiting back with the knights in the circular room. Oberon then just launched a bunch of volleys from the wand of lightning until only Kayardi was left. Still in mustard jelly form Aerie and Oberon bashed on her until she started running out of spells then transformed into sword spiders to finish her off.
5) The sword spiders and ettercaps were killed with help from some buffed skeletons.
6) The next group of halflings was just rolled over. Some spiders and skeletons were summoned outside the room to lead the charge, Oberon started by spell thrusting one of their minor spell turnings whilst Anomen cast true sight. Then it was just a general melee with some minor spells to speed things up as I was resting after that battle.
7) The fire elementals were killed by some Aerial Servants (and some skeletons to suck up damage) which stuck around long enough to kill the golems too and help get me the kill shot on the elder orb.
8) I thought from previous playthoughs that Lavok summoned some annoying monsters so I rebuffed Oberon with a bunch of protections and a number of spell Immunities so he wouldn't have to resort to mustard jelly form, but I did pre-cast it just incase. Turned out Lavok didn't summon anything and my spell immunities wore off fairly quickly so I just polymorphed and attacked him in mustard form whilst he wasted his spells.
9) Chaotic commands + melee for the mycanoids after having cast blindness on the spore colonies to stop them summoning more. Grease + ranged weapons + melee Anomen with free action for the lizard men.
10) Buffed Oberon with everything I had for the fight with the Tanar'ri and sent him in alone with 2 Aerial servants and 3 skeletons to back him up. His first move was to cast glitterdust to blind the little dudes, he got lucky and blinded the Tanar'ri too. Been a while since I've done this quest but I thought he was heavily magic resistant with good saves. Anyway, with him blinded for 4 rounds right at the start the battle was basically over before it began. I decided not to kill the other Tanar'ri, they are kinda dangerous and it's unlikely i'd get that lucky again.
11) Went mustard jelly form for Tolgerias and his buddy with an initial cloudkill from Aerie. Turns out it's Tolgerias with the summoning spells, which would have been quite dangerous (only 22 hp in mustard jelly form) if they weren't all killed by Aerie's cloudkill immediately after being summoned.
12) The fire room was rather annoying as the efreeti kept coming back but luckily I managed to blind him every time.
13) The Ice room wasn't so bad, a cloudkill, a Grease spell and a bunch of melf's minute meteors did most of the work.
14) Decided to rest before taking on the golems in the next room so I'd have Anomen's 2 Aerial Servants to fight them. Using the Aerial servants as blockers on the thin walkways with Minute Meteors for Aerie and Oberon took them all out fine.
Overall I got some great xp and some really useful items from the quest like the staff of fire and ring of Acuity all without any real danger. With the Stronghold mine I do some quick errands for Aran Linvale killing the vampire on the docks and the traitors in the Five Flagons to push Anomen into level 14 and Oberon into level 12 with his first level 6 spell Contingency. I also had enough money at the end to purchase Oberon the robe of vecna.
I decided to do the Umar Hills shade lord quest next. I won't bore you with the details other than to say a level 14 cleric makes the whole quest rather trivial. Anomen couldn't destroy the skeletal warriors outright so they had to be killed with summons, and two Aerial servants were needed to take out the bone golem but that was basically it, the rest were turned.
The only really interesting things that occurred were
1) a level 12 Mazzy joined the party and
2) I took the risk of attacking the shadow dragon. It actually went rather well. I summoned a bunch of fire elementals using the staff I got from the planar sphere, hasted and resist fear'd them then surrounded Thaxll'ssillyia and had Anomen cast firestorm on the top of them and then stood back until the firestorm was over and he could safely summon his Aerial Servants. All the while a heavily buffed Oberon and Aerie pelted him with Melf's Minute Meteors from the sides whilst Oberon re-summoned more fire elementals as they were killed and Aerie stripped his protections with Breach. It was all over in about 8-9 rounds. Pitty you can't use Firestorm on Firkraag too.
By the end of the quest Mazzy had levelled to 13 and Aerie levelled to 11/11 getting her first level 6 cleric spell allowing the party a third aerial servant.
Modifié par Blobsy, 25 décembre 2010 - 10:50 .
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