Hard luck Corey. My WS is doing OK, but that is possibly because of the mods that I have.
Mine is a drow using FinnJo's sub-race mod which gives great magical resistance, 72% at level 8.
Of course, being drow means a 10% experience handicap.
Some of the equipment that he has are from mods and therefore she can use a necklace that gives Protection from Evil.
Specialises in staves *****
Two handed weapons **
I never saw her interrupt any spells either
Imo, the problem with WS is the fact that if you can hit a mage, he will be dead soon anyway, regardless if he gets affected by spell failure or not. You can easilly disrupt the spell with elemental damage anyway. The restrictions on item usabilities are insane (no potions aside healing?! wtf? Being a WS doesn't (imo) mean they're half-witted idiots), which in turn makes them the most vulnerable against their arch-nemesis - mages. Even worse, plenty of oponnents in vanilla game force-cast spells, making them immune to the whole "spell failure" thingie. It's a shame a berserker is actually a far better WS than a WS....
Those are good points Aasim. And in fact, a few times my berserker used a potion of magic protection and indeed got his MR much higher than the Wizard Slayer, so the WS didn't even have that going for her...
Taum, 2nd BG2 update
We exposed the skinner murderer, and got Ilbratha sword from Umar Hills for the precious Mirror Image 1x/day casting.
Since I wanted Mazzy, returned to Amn, and bought a Magic Shielding potion x2, 3x Secret Word scrolls (Jan failed to learn it..fffs - he will get kicked out the moment I finish WK level 1, Edwin has 19 INT so he will be far less prone to such mishaps) than back to the Shade dungeon. Mazzy was adopted as a ranged expert (GM in shortbows) and an AC tank. We pre-buffed for Shade with 2xNPP (Taum and Kivan), SI:Necromancy for Xan, Haste, and a Potion of Magic Shielding for Taum, to avoid Disintegration from his BBoD.
Fortunately, Xan does know Secret Word, hence uses one on Shade immidiately for his Spell Turning, while Taum, Mazzy and Kivan kill off Patrick.
Altar is next.
Shade uses PW:Blind on Taum, making him moot.
Xan's Breach comes in.
And then it's done.
After collecting reward from Umar Hills, we pay a short visit to WK, kill of Wraith spawns and disarm the damn petrification trap 
...
..and kill the 2 statues there. For some odd reason, they use potions.
Next were slavers in Alkathla.
Jan disarmed all traps under invisibility, then it was a straight route to Haegan.
Decided to fight Rayic Gethras, so I can swap Jan for Edwin to assemble a very poweful arcane duo (Edwin + sorcerer).
To my surprise, no invisibility on him. Grand. Xan opens up with Secret Word.
And another.
Unfortunately, this took too long. Magic Shielding potion was used to avoid gibbing of Taum.
After that, Xan's aura is clean for Breach cast.
He never finished the spell.
We swap Jan for Edwin, and pay Mae'var a visit. He was the only one not to get confused to Edwin's Chaos.
Taum tried to block the door, but one assassin somehow got through (also not confused, apperantly) and get a stab on Viconia. She dissapears instantly.
Mae'var's Chaos only manages to affect Edwin.
The assassin near us dies, trying to kill Kivan.
After many rounds of turning invisible, Mae'var finally dies. Not before he confuses Xan however.
Xan's crit. Maybe I should use him as a fron-line fighter 
The last assassin finally dies.
We end the session here.
Taum, 3rd BG2 update
A short session started by facing Mencar Peeblecrusher's gang. We opened up with Chaos and Ice Storm.
Chaos affected the thief, Xan responded with 10'invisibility, so Viconia will be safe. There's no telling who he will attack. He chose Edwin, who was stoneskined.
Both Pooky and Orcslicer die.
Mencar died to magic missile barrage.
Finally, Amon.
Next, Temple sewers party. We pre-buffed extensively for this one, opened the battle with a Malison.
Draug Fea was the first victim.
Enemies didn't use dispel, so aren't long for life.
Viconia removes imp.invisibility from Gaius.
I tried to breach him, but he still had Turning active, it bounced back, disabling Edwin's Spell Shield
This might have been a chunk hit, but Xan wields 50% Fire resistance Moonblade, keeping him alive.
When Gaius' contingencied stoneskins expired, Mazzy got the killing blow.
En route to Nalia's Keep, we survived Orog ambush, altough Edwin came fairly close to dying after two consecutive lightning bolts. His HP pool allows him to survive one even on a failed save, which cannot be said for Xan.
Nalia's keep
Here Taum came fairly close to his demise. He got webbed and hit by a Cone of Cold.
Kivan and Viconia immidiately rush to him to draw fire away.
Others join soon, after a Secret Word + breach Yuan-ti dies.
We decided to fight Torgal head-on. Xan picked up Chain Lightning as his 1st level 6 pick, and isn't afraid to use it.
Yuan'ti mages apperantly lack some coordination. Torgal is closing in on Mazzy as well.
She soon gets hit for massive damage.
Edwin drops a well-aimed Chaos. One of the Yuan-ti fails his save.
Torgal dies to Mazzy and Kivan, Taum is keeping mage busy.
Yuan-ti brings out heavy artillery - Flesh to Stone on Mazzy. I decide to play it safe, she drinks up the last available Magic Shielding potion we have, unless we find them on bodies the next few can only be bought in Underdark.
He just wouldn't die. In the last few seconds of his life, yuan-ti confuses Kivan.
Taum approaches Kivan so he would be the most viable target for the archer. Mage finally dies.
and Viconia succefully removes confusion from Kivan.
I adopt the keep as my own, and end the session just as Mazzy was called to Trademeet, which will be our next destination.
Gate70/Grond0 multiplayer attempt 46 - (update 2)
Tweedle, dwarf fighter (Grond0) & Guarh, dwarf fighter (Gate70)
The dwarven duo continue to pound their way through BG2, although they hit an unfortunate glitch in today's session.
The first port of call was the Graveyard where Pai'Na provided Tweedle with some better headgear. Use of RoAC by Tweedle meant both fighters had automatic saves against the spider bites. Moving on to the vampires Tweedle wielded Lilarcor to play target, while Guarh threw in Azuredge to destroy the attackers. They just collected the MoD and left Tanova for now.
After forging the iMoD they released a kidnap victim (not bothering with the fat armour again) and then headed to Watcher's Keep to get a potion case. The 2 vampiric wraiths made a concerted attack on Tweedle, but the last one fell to Azuredge before things got too critical. The RoAC allowed Guarh to spring the FoD trap while looting most of the top floor (couldn't open the chest with the +3 dart, but we don't need that anyway).
The next stop was the de'Arnise Hold, which was rapidly cleared, only the iron golem doing a lot of damage (though without being threatening). Glaicas was the last target there and was a victim of Kitthix's web - killing him got the duo to level 12. Tweedle accepted the stronghold, although is unlikely to spend much time managing it.
Back in Athkatla preparations were put in place for a lich hunt. A green scroll of undead protection + a potion of speed each meant that the liches lasted very little time, while a potion of fire giant strength and DUHM opened doors and containers and another green scroll protected against a petrification trap. Unfortunately, progress came to a grinding halt against Kangaxx. That was probably a result of the game refusing to pause after Kangaxx's lich form gave its death speech. That resulted in the lich form receiving further damage before turning into the demi-lich - and the latter did not then appear (leaving an unkillable lich). Resting and reloading failed to reset the change, so it looks like we'll have to do without his ring for a change.
The final action of the day was at Trademeet, which again proceeded very smoothly. The RoAC was used to defend against the genies' petrification attacks and the efreeti contributed a couple of spells while attacking Kyland Lind. However, the bulk of the action just saw the fighters ploughing through the opposition. Guarh picked up Belm, so will be even more vicious in future, on the way to watch Cernd eat Faldorn for breakfast. Back at Trademeet Tiris was helped and the tomb made safe to get the duo to level 13.
Stats:
Tweedle, fighter 13, 128 HPs (incl. 11 from ioun stone), 344 kills
Guarh, fighter 13, 129 HPs (incl. 5 from helm), 474 kills, 0 deaths
Taum, 4th update
A rather short session saw Trademeet done. We braved Trolls, Spiders, druids
Fungi
Shambling Mounds
More druids
Rakshasa (went rather smooth, all things considered. The main guy was killed almost instantly.Kivan did get confused )
Viconia restores Kivan's sanity. Should probably buy Reflection shield for her, Kivan gets confused often.
I let Cernd do Faldorn (I restored this fight to vanilla, it's supposed to be a cutscene, at least when you don't adopt Cernd imo)
Returned to Trademeet, wrapped things up with Guldmistress and mayor, bought some neat stuff and Xan got his Robe of Archmagi (bought from town merchant, it's a mini-quest with Xan NPC).
Finished Mazzy's quest,
rested, picked up Mazzy again and am now pondering what to do next. I'm reluctant to join either Shadow thieves (vamps can be annoying) or Bodhi (thief mages can be deadly as well.). Probably try for some levels first, but I'm unsure where to get them.
Nice progress, everyone! Mine is far less *speedy* as you might presume... 
but here are some details of our early adventures in Amn:
Escaping the improved Dungeon (further modified by aTweaks) and with only one rest allowed is a challenge by itself (at least for me as this is my first try of it). We should conserve our resources but once we got used with that the things went more or less smooth. Cleared the whole dungeon but left a Cambion alone as we were short of resources at the moment. Randomiser took away the Helm of Balduran and Metaspell Amulet but at least we got Mail of the Dead, Sword of Chaos and Girdle of Bluntness. Jaheira acted much more effective in Bear form (18/00 Strength and 2 APR are better then her *human* abilities at the moment).
After escaping the dungeon Jaheira and me parted our ways with Minsc and Yoshimo and we looked around. Ribald's stock was emptied by Randomiser as well but it put some new *shiny ones* there instead: Ring of Djinni Summoning (that's nice opportunity to try it out as I never sided with Bodhi), Gauntlets of Weapon Skill, Cloak of the Sewers, Cloak of Non-Detection, Skin of the Ghoul +4. And Bracers of Defense +4 are there as well. Not so bad. Bought Battle Axe +1, Wand of Frost and some scroll/gem/ammo cases. Deidre lost Robe of Vecna somewhere in her travels...hmm 
Should look after her wares better, if you ask me...
Solved the Circus problems with Aerie's help but then left her there at safety.
Went to the Slums and talked with Gaelan. He sent us to the Copper Coronet and we joined with Nalia. Polytweak changed her into the Swashbuckler 5/Mage and modified her proficiencies as **Short Sword, **Dagger, *Crossbow. Well, will see how she will fare that way.
Fought the guards (disabled them with Chaos) and Beastmaster (Emotion put him out of fight):
Looted Beastmaster for Shortbow +1 and Missile Attraction +2 armor.
Bernard's stock is even more *thin* than Ribald's but at least I got a scroll of Spell Shield from him. Pretty useful if not crucial.
I'm thinking about getting Viconia in the Crew before descending into the Sewers for further elimination of the slavers.
Current state:
Impish Face: Fighter (8) / Illusionist (9), 52 kills (Frennedan);
Jaheira: Fighter (8) / Druid (10), 23 kills (Mephit Portal);
Nalia: Swashbuckler (5) / Mage (9), 1 kill (Panther);
to be continued...
@Serg
In ToBEx .ini folder you got a Tobex_core file. If you want, you can make Saving Throw Fix=1 to 0. That disables the message Save vs.x to be displayed multiple times. Fwiw, Saving Throw Fix doesn't apply to anything in the game!
Taum, 5th update
We decided to do the Planar Prison. Not the easiest of quests to take, but chances are better here than anywhere else probably.
We start of abruptly killing the Yuan-ti spawn in Mekrath's Lair. Lightning traps did a fair deal of damage, but no deaths.
Prior to visiting the planes, upgraded my Quiver of +1 arrows to +3 status, so Demons are vulnerable to them.
We enter the prison buffed and invisible. Mage on the left side dies instantly, his HP is very low.
The rest are done swiftly.
Before facing the 2nd group of Thralls+Yuan-ti, we send an Earth Elemental (from ring) to draw some fire.
Then we rush in. Taum gets held in a Web, but succeeds his next save, just in time to heal up via potion.
3rd round, he fails his save again, and gets blasted by Sunfire. He acually has 50% Fire resistance due to Ring of Fire Control, but the damage on a failed save is massive.
Mazzy gets disintegrated. That's fine, she's available for ressurection.
Again a Sunfire. Taum is near death state.
After expending the rest of Evocations on Kivan, mage turns invisible, only to show up to strike with another Lightning bolt at Kivan.
Finally, she dies.
Demon managed to succesfully gate one of his friends, and turn Ethereal a few times - I'll disable Demons' Etherealness power from now on, it's annoying for me.
They both die soon enough. I rest there, and have Viconia cure Mazzy off level drain.
Warden must be approached with caution. Earth Elemental was summoned again.
Run, Taum, run!
Yuan-ti mage approached just as his Pfmw expired, Mazzy&Kivan demolish him in 2 rounds.
Time for skeleton army.
Here comes the Time stop. Warden had no NPCs in his sight, so didn't actually do anything, not even a swing at the skeletons.
As we approach, he strikes with 3x Chaos trigger, leaving Kivan, Xan and Mazzy confused.
Viconia has but one Break Enchantement memorized, and she uses it on Kivan.
Next round, Kivan is confused again. Bad luck.
Taum approaches. Most of the high-leveled spells were expended, or so I tought, since he got Mazed instantly.
Xan dies to a Flame arrow.
While Kivan dies to confused Mazzy.
She does regain her senses the following round, and Edwin approaches with Breach after Viconia's Invisibility Purge.
Warden's two next spells were succesfully disrupted, and he dies.
I raise my dead, and return to home plane.
Taum, 6th update.
Upon returning to Amn, we sell of most of the loot from Planar Prison, and finish WK level 2 without much problems. The moment Chromatic Demon was set free, I exited the area, I can't fight him.
Forged Helm of the Rock. This is priceless, since it gives immunity to critical hits. Taum gets it, as a sole front-line fighter in my group.
Payed Shadow Thieves 15k gold, finished first two quests easilly, and then Edwin started his jabbing about Nether Scroll.
Fine, fine, we shall fight the Lich.
Vamps posed no threat.
Bodhi didn't go hostile until all Grimwardens were slain. Nice.
After few rounds of running in circles, she gives up the chase.
Nether Scroll galore
First I forgot about Mummies' Fear. Luckily, Taum has no fear of such abominations.
With that done, Edwin summons 2 Wraiths and parlors with Neveziah.
Lich laughs at our summons, and calls in a Planetar.
At least Wraiths served their purpose, Minor sequencer was wasted. Edwin gets in sight of summoned Glabrezu and he gets stunned immidiately, but not before he summoned a Wyvern. We run.
Oh, we forgot something. Stunned Edwin.
He manages to haste us just before Glabrezu stuns him again.
I forgot to turn of Demon's Plane Shift. I don't want to do that in the midst of battle, so it lasts a bit longer, but under focused fire of Mazzy and Kivan first Glabrezu falls. I say first, since he gated in another.
Now the second one dies, as does Edwin.
Lich launches a Symbol of Stunning, paralyzing both of my archers. That's just s*** since Viconia doesn't have any more Remove Paralysis memorized.
Desperate times, desperate measures.
Yugoloth comes to my aid.
To rub more salt, Lich responds with a sequencer:3x Remove Magic. All buffs are gone, including Pro Evil. Yugoloth is angry at us, and launches a Fire Storm. A spell-draining monster is summoned near Xan.
Run, Xan, run!
Invisibility won't help against Lich or Yugoloth, however.
Now he's paralyzed as well.
Neveziah finally doesn't re-cast his protections, and dies as Kivan is free from stun.
Ultroloth dies next, and that was it. We raise Edwin, he Dimension doors near Lich's coffin but doesn't say anything about Nether scroll. Odd.
Spider Lair was done with Breach (Edwin) and Chain Lightning (Xan). We sail to Spellhold now.
And 2 CLUA commands I entered now:
1st one disables Plane Shift
2nd one makes mages have stoneskin in place before battle starts. In effect, they're pretty much immune to backstabs, but it doesn't really matter.
Taum, 7th update
Bryllaw troubles
I don't have high charisma, Minsc or Yoshi, hence I need to fight Perth the adept. He ended my run once already, so I was very careful about him.
Oddly enough, Edwin apperantly found Nether Scroll on Saemon's ship.
We pay a visit to Perth buffed for battle. His summoned Simularcrum isn't buffed as he is, and dies instantly.
Taum knocks him out with Divine Wrath innate, but it won't last long. He's also under SI:div, and protected from Magical weapons, so our attacks are futile.
As he wakes up, he targets us with Prismatic Spray. Mazzy's badly hurt, and Edwin dies.
Next his trigger activates, and he casts a Sphere of Chaos on Kivan, who walks away from it.
Next Perth's move was Flesh to Stone on Kivan. He drinks up Invunerability potion (with IR it's +2AC, +2 saves, invulnerability to normal weapons) to buff his saves somewhat. Pure luck here tough, he wears Helmet of Balduran with 5%MR, and it blocks it.
He dies as he was casting yet another Pfmw.
Luck apperantly expired with Book of Infinite Spells. It had Fireball which I don't like, turned the page, and got this:
Last page, Burning Hands. We now enter Spellhold.
To rub more salt, Lich responds with a sequencer:3x Remove Magic. All buffs are gone, including Pro Evil. Yugoloth is angry at us, and launches a Fire Storm. A spell-draining monster is summoned near Xan.
Sounds nasty - I'm glad you were able to adjust to the shifting allegiances!
Taum, 7th update
Sounds nasty - I'm glad you were able to adjust to the shifting allegiances!
All in a day's work, Grond0. At least that sequencer dispeled Stun from Kivan and Mazzy, so screw both Ultroloth and Neveziah! 
Anyways, I had to reload upon entering Spellhold - Bhaal wouldn't die. 
He did once I reloaded, so this is probably a bug (he buffed with potions, which is also a bug.)
Never the less, we fought:
Rakshasa and Mephits
Umber Hulks
Yuan-ti
Mummies, and other Undead (luckily, no Lich spawn)
Beholder (Taum saved vs Death Ray, Kivan was targeted by Anti-magic ray)
Kobolds
A non-memorable vampire and a large group of Umber Hulks (2x Chain Lightning did them)
Then we decided that, given Viconia can cast level 7 spells, including Gate, we let Demons do our bidding.
The beast gated is completely immune to Yuan-ti weapons, and rips them to shreds. Mage Dimension-doored near us in panick, only to get whipped by arrows .
Taum, 8th update
Escaping the Spellhold
Everything was going rather smooth until Slayer change wouldn't kick in. Purely cosmetic bug (altough Taum could be level drained as a consequence).
One near death experience was Ulitharid. He hit Taum 3 times, lowering his HP to 25% very quickly.
We payed Lonk the Sane 2k gold to give us the keys.
Reasoned with the loonies downstairs, and then all hell broke loose. "Fake" Viconia died first. She was casting some Enchantement spell, I don't like holds and similar so I focused her down first.
Next, "fake" Edwin.
"Fake" Xan was also slain prior to Wanev's Time Stop.
Wanev only used Remove magic on the remaing clones. Kivan is taking heavy damage from his clone.
Jon casts Time Stop. Remove magic (affects Taum) + Alacrity. Kivan (the real one) dies to his clone and Taum clone. Viconia summons some skeletons to keep Jon busy.
Kivan's clone dies.
Taum's clone is next.
Jon isn't being idle. ADHW bombardement lays waste to loonies.
Viconia reveals him via True Seeing. He's attacking Edwin with Energy blades, so Edwin can do nothing apart drink healing potions. It's up to Xan's Secret Word casting.
Over and over.
Final Secret Word opens him up for Breach.
Of course, he still has one up his sleeve. Mazzy is hasted and runs away from Taum upon seeing this.
She dies.
Now Jon starts Prismatic Sprays.
One more, but he's taking damage...
Yeah! He gives up!
We accept Saemon's offer to take the ship, and are now resting in Brynnlaw.
Taum, 9th update
City of Caverns
Not much to say here. We killed the priestess, and completed the locked chest quest. Taum got Mazed by a trap there but it's irrelevant since he isn't soloing.
Priestess wields the Cloak of Mirroring, tweaked by IR it's turned into this. Mazzy gets it.
Taum gets Etherealness boots. These are indeed a splendid pair, with outright immunity to Imprisonment & Maze.
We kill all Sahaugin, both King and Prince.
Underdark
Drow are outright horrible. We destroyed Air Elemental Portal summons, but those drow party gang were much trouble.
Kivan died to Skull traps, Mazzy got confused by Myconids and ran towards Earth Portal.
Just as Mazzy regained senses, she got confused again. Grrr.
In the meanwhile, Edwin is charmed, and we're collecting enemies from around the map.
After a long time, we kill of the remaning forces and raise Kivan.
Next, Kuo-Toa. They succesfully disabled casters, but fighter trio doesn't really care about Deafness.
They die swiftly after tadpoles were polluted.
Their prince wears these gauntlets, which Taum now adopts as his own.
Demon Knights (aTweaks modified Undead)
Buffs will do little good, so Taum uses potions which are undispellable. He is in there solo.
He gets hit by various nastiness, including PW:Blind.
Edwin casts Haste, and Mazzy and Kivan open the door to the slaughter.
They instantly get hit by Remove magic and covered in Ice Sheets, but they bravely fight on, destroying the Knights one at a time.
After the last one fell, Skeleton Warriors were easy pickings.
Now it's time to reap my rewards!
Taum's brand new sword:
And his brand new set of Full Plate.
Note that SI:Necromancy isn't as good as it sounds - with Spell Revisions, all Necromancy spells force a save vs death, which Taum is now at -2. In addition, it prevents healing from working on him (items with regeneration and potions can still be used). "Cure" type spells are also ineffective, so disease and similar effects become a pain. Time to face the drow party near Underdark exit.
Taum, 10th update
The drow war party
I used very little buffs. Demons dispel at high level, hence I saved my spells for later use.
We kill of one of the two Glabrezu guards instantly.
They have HLAs. Dragon's Breath is upon us, and the party retreats having no fire protection. Taum is left alone against the horde.
He tries to run to his comrades, but a golem slows him down. He just drank healing, and needs to wait a few precious seconds to do something about his slowness.
Phew!
Viconia casts Heal at him. I forgot he can't be healed! Mazzy switches to Harmony shield + Foebane. Oh, and that other surviving Glabrezu gated in a freakin Balor. Now I started to worry a bit.
She drops unconciuss as we get hit by Remove magic.
Taum heals up with big healing potion, as Edwin casts haste. Kivan is desperately trying to finish off the Balor before he gets too close.
Glabrezu decides that the golem Xan summoned is a bad target for stuns, so picks Kivan as a target. Fuuuuu....
Taum sends the Balor back to Hell.
aTweaks Glabrezu, unlike most of SCS oponnents, doesn't ignore disabled oponnents - in fact, he prefers those. Kivan is in for a lot of hurt now. Edwin has no stoneskins. I don't know how that happened, I'm afraid, a lot of stuff was going on.
Pure luck strikes again! Kivan dies to Unholy Blight, instead of getting shred to pieces by Glabrezu.
Of course, Glabrezu's PW:Stuns are a neverending story with Xan's HP pool. I should use SI:Conjuration more often.
More bad news. Taum is hit by a Symbol of Weakness or something similar, which drops his ability scores, and cannot move. Edwin is in a near-death state after a failed save vs Flamestrike.
Ok, it's time to panick now. How Edwin didn't get chunked to this is beyond my coprehension.
Taum drops his old Full Plate +1 to the ground, and can move again.
Unfortunaly, Taum tries to get into Rage, but it takes no effect if he suffers from Rage fatigue effect, bad call.
Xan dies. Again, no chunk. 
Close one. If the Trigger was 3x Chain Lightning, it's good night gracie. Luckily, it's 2x Lightning + Chaos.
Taum runs and drinks big healing, as Mazzy takes the position.
Taum gets confused. Viccy - this isn't a time for spell failure. Success!
I ain't getting confused again.
Die...die!
All die!
Die while stunned!
Taum, 11th update.
We got the Balor off the Deep Gnome village without trouble. Second drow ambush on the bridge was much easier than the first one - we buffed properly, and drow even summoned Gnolls in desperation.
Bought Mirror Shield (IR version of Balduran's shield), but it is of little use against Beholders since they steal it via telekinesis, Greenstone Amulet (Kivan gets it, no longer can he be disabled by enchantements), and all Potions of Magic Shielding there.
Time to wrap up our mission in Underdark. Boz and his gang were dealt with swiftly - a pre-cast True seeing from Viconia made Damien visible, while Taum destroyed the opossition.
Mind Flayer ambush was also taken care of w/o casualties.
Dualed for that magical bastard sword, just so I could sell it. Did not fight other pit fights.
Killed the beholder in Ust Natha.
Had much difficulty with Quille. Edwin died, and a number of healing potions were used up. I'm getting rather low on these - Taum usually drinks one each round.
It took a long while to kill off all the mages in Quille's home.
Finished the helmet quest and Solaufein's quest "the good way", letting both the gnome commander and Solaufeinn live; Demon who wanted the eggs was sent back to his home plane ("Remain silent").
I really wanted to buy Psion's Blade (IR places it in Underdark), but it's terribly expensive and I couldn't afford it.
Beholders were next.
Under Magic Shielding potion, Immunity to Necromancy (armor), Disintegration and Petrification (amulet) Taum had little fear of them.
Main target was the Elder orb, who leaves behind Equilizer part and Spell Warding amulet.
Taum now gets superb saves against a number of threats.
We report back to Adalon, but decide to wrap things up completely and visit Mind Flayers.
Impressive progress Aasim, impressively fast too. What levels are your team at?
Imo, the problem with WS is the fact that if you can hit a mage, he will be dead soon anyway, regardless if he gets affected by spell failure or not. You can easilly disrupt the spell with elemental damage anyway. The restrictions on item usabilities are insane (no potions aside healing?! wtf? Being a WS doesn't (imo) mean they're half-witted idiots), which in turn makes them the most vulnerable against their arch-nemesis - mages. Even worse, plenty of oponnents in vanilla game force-cast spells, making them immune to the whole "spell failure" thingie. It's a shame a berserker is actually a far better WS than a WS....
The disadvantages of a WS are mostly mitigated by playing in a party with arcane casters and priests, they do have one valuable ability that's not easily replicable by any other warrior prior to HLAs i.e. interrupting a mage with Stoneskin + ProMW by hitting them with a normal weapon. I know you don't use normal weapons vs ProMW casters though...
The main problem IMO is their awful armor class compared to other warriors (at least 3-4 points worse, and up to 7 points worse when you consider the golden girdle and suchlike).
Mind Flayer ambush was also taken care of w/o casualties.
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Ooh, thanks for reminding me of this: Phaere can get confused by Umber Hulks with current polytweak mod, and would possibly attack Solaufein and turn him hostile (ending the drow city quest line). I need to fix that.
Of course, since confused creatures only ever attack the nearest creature, you could just stand someone between Phaere and Solaufein to distract her.
Impressive progress Aasim, impressively fast too. What levels are your team at?
At the last screenshot, they were (I don't use "revised XP tables" from Kit Revisons, it kills my mages completely):
Taum - 16
Mazzy -16
Kivan -14 or 15
Viconia - I think 17, but definitely highest
Xan - 15, close to 16
Edwin is lagging behind due to BGT (he doesn't gain EXP until he joins, he had a slow start so was 13 or 14.
The disadvantages of a WS are mostly mitigated by playing in a party with arcane casters and priests, they do have one valuable ability that's not easily replicable by any other warrior prior to HLAs i.e. interrupting a mage with Stoneskin + ProMW by hitting them with a normal weapon. I know you don't use normal weapons vs ProMW casters though...
The main problem IMO is their awful armor class compared to other warriors (at least 3-4 points worse, and up to 7 points worse when you consider the golden girdle and suchlike).
Vanilla WS simply isn't worth it. MR is good, but I'd rather have the ability to use MR potions from level 1 than rely on inborn slow gain.
Mages using Pfmw are imo, probably best killed with AoE such as ADHW and similar, relative to what protection they lack.
Good point about AC. All this is probably irrelevant once you have a mage with Vecna + Alacrity.
Ooh, thanks for reminding me of this: Phaere can get confused by Umber Hulks with current polytweak mod, and would possibly attack Solaufein and turn him hostile (ending the drow city quest line). I need to fix that.
Well, the dialogue didn't trigger immidiately. I waited, had Viconia cast Invisibility Purge (I tought some Mind Flayer was invisible perhaps), and then Confusion wore off and was able to continue.
Looks like some great progress there Grond0 - try to keep it up!
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