Sounds like good progress Corey - keep it going. In my BGT installation Carsomyr does reset MR to 50% when equipped, but anything equipped after that (like Ring of Gaxx or an amulet) provides an addition. You might want to experiment to see if that's the case for you.
That is the case for my install as well. The issue is I can't get 100%, as far as I can see. I can get 65% at the moment.
@Blackrave: best of luck in the end-game!
Blackraven, in my installation of SCS, my characters are stripped of their equipment and are eligible to retrieve it once Irenicus is beaten. Did you decide to forgo this component?
Gate70/Grond0 multiplayer attempt 59 - (6th and final update)
May, human necromancer (Grond0) & Blaggerd, human blackguard (Gate70)
A slight lapse in concentration saw this pairing fail to fulfil their considerable potential.
Blaggerd poisoned Perth and moved on to Spellhold. A couple of things soon combined there to spell disaster.
- normally we explore the area to the east by starting with the umber hulks, but this time we moved round from the north and came into their room from the other side. That contributed to May triggering the umber hulks before she had expected them.
- meanwhile Blaggerd had convinced some undead to fight on our side. He would normally have been in the lead, but was waiting for the slow-moving undead and, as a result had not entered the room when the door locked down.
The umber hulks instantly confused May and then had plenty of time to strip her stoneskins while Blaggerd looked on impotently through the bars of the door. He tried to summon the efreeti into the room, but even that was not allowed. A ghast and mummy were already in the room, but the ghast was incredibly hard to convince to move to attack the umber hulks on May and only finally started towards them as she was about to snuff it.
Sorry to hear that guys.
Lilah, neutral evil half-elven mage/thief, update 4
Lilah and her hasted party entered the planar prison, quickly killing both hostile spellcasters, rushing to the east, fighting their way further into the prison with the buffs still active. The Master of Thralls was quickly slain, and the warden was next.
Next, Lilah entered the old tunnels, spoke to Ghaal and some traps plus Keldorn with Daystar took care of the Lich. After fighting her way to the abandoned temple, the mage/thief had Keldorn use a PFU scroll to clear the ghoul city before ordering Jaheira to equip the Shield of Balduran to kill some beholders. After the blind priests were defeated, it was time to take on the Unseeing Eye. A couple of minutes and a horror spell later, and the whole cult was destroyed.
Now, Lilah decided to acquire her stronghold, the planar sphere. No problems here, just some battles against halflings, golems (using Tansheron's Bow for iron golems), Lavok, Tolgerias and some demons. All stronghold quests were quickly completed.
The party paid Gaelan Bayle, fought Lassal and the guild contact and entered the guarded compound, where Lilah backstabbed a demon. With the mage/thief laying traps downstairs and Jaheira + Anomen summoning some help, some of the enemies were lured into their death, the remaining few stood no chance.
Time to enter Bodhi's Lair. With Jaheira using the AoP, some vampires quickly fell, Tanova was defeated by summons and Lassal killed by Minsc. Bodhi didn't survive long.
Some traps and Keldorn took care of the elemental lich, and Anomen using another PFU scroll killed the city gates lich with the newly acquired iMoD +2. For Kangaxx, Minsc was equipped with the best thac0 increasing items, the iMoD a protection from magic scroll.
Lilah travelled to the Windspear Hills, visited the dryad queen and entered Firkraag's Dungeon. Some vampires failed to notice Minsc thanks to another PFU scroll. Three fire elementals helped with Samia's quest and the ensuing battle, Tansheron's and Firetooth took care of the adamantite golem, Tazok was killed again and finally, Conster died, which leaves Firkraag for later.
The group decided to finally sail to Brynnlaw, destroying some more vampires. Valygar backstabbed Perth and Lilah completed all of the other quests before entering Spellhold. While fighting their way through the asylum, the party encountered - among other things - a pit fiend, some undead, some clay golems and finally Lonk the Sane.
While battling Jon himself, Lilah used death spell to instantly kill all party clones before firing arrows of dispelling at Joneleth, allowing Jaheira and Valygar to get some quick hits in, eventually forcing Irenicus to flee.
The group has now entered the City of Caverns.
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Blackraven, in my installation of SCS, my characters are stripped of their equipment and are eligible to retrieve it once Irenicus is beaten. Did you decide to forgo this component?
- @Alaestr: I've never played with that component. It hugely favors Mages and Sorcerers (and to a lesser extent Priests), and I don't really like that, because I feel that (arcane) casters are already favored enough by the game. I usually solo, and I don't want my solo underdogs (warriors, thieves) to have this extra disadvantage. I can understand that people like the challenge of it though.
Russell VII the level 28 Undead Hunter - Update 9
So Russell VII has made it out of spellhold. He used a deva for distraction, then used dispelling arrows on Irenicus, then arrows of biting - this worked good.
Fish City was pretty straightforward. The large mass of undead were all chunked by turn undead. When doing the imp puzzle, Russell VII was very careful to walk on the outside, as he knows there's a maze trap nearby.
Underdark, most of it was skipped. Russell VII did battle the demon knights, he did buy some stuff from Ust Natha. He then immediately went to Adalon's lair, got 100% cold resistance, then summoned a deva, then slinged Adalon dead. He didn't actually want the blood, but just wanted to leave the Underdark quick.
He successfully battled out of the elvish temple, with the help of a haste potion.
For chapter 6, a few things were forged by Cromwell, then asked for help from Drizzt, Order of the Radiant Heart and shadow thieves, not that he really needed it. Bodhi's lair was fun, Russell VII spent most of his time chunking vampires with turn undead. He used GWW with Carsomyr on Bodhi - that was too much for her.
For good or ill, Suldanessar is Russell VII's next stop.
Time to go and explore Saradush... though not much, because a weekend filled with an extraordinary amount of gaming is coming to an end.
All good things come to an end - but hopefully not for Thani until Mel has been humbled!
Congratulations, Blackraven, with graduation in ToB! Personally, I try to avoid to deal with Balors in melee due to their vorpal attacks. I don't remember how that work in pure SCS but with aTweaks it's 15% chance with no save... Glad that Thani made it through. Take care of her!
@Grond0 & Gate: feel sad of your duo's fate... and the next one as well Better luck next time!
@Corey: nice progress there, keep it up! (killing Adalon just to speed the things up isn't a Paladin way to go though, IMO... 
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Russell VII the level 31 solo undead hunter - update 10
@Blackraven - glad to see ya in ToB!
Russell VII still lives. However, it's been a while since I had a solo character here, and I had forgotten how tough it can be without full party support.
For Ramilat and his Nabassu buddy, a Deva took them out for me.
Next major encounter was Nizi. I had forgotten just how tough this enemy can be - despite having two skeletal warriors and two devas (one at a time), the summon died quickly, so Russell's plan of ranging wasn't going to work. Worse, Nizi's dragon breath did huge damage, 1/2 of Russell VII's life in one shot and Russell has 160+ HP! Acid maybe? Regardless, Russell was forced to use RoR heals twice during the battle. Time to bring out Carsomyr - Russell VII did 3 GWWs before the big lizard finally goes down - good riddance.
Somewhat surprisingly, the next major encounter was the golems guarding the harp. They were hitting so hard, Russell VII had to retreat and RoR heal again. Eventually Russell VII noticed there was a clay golem in the mix - Flail of Ages and Giantkin Warhammer took care of things finally. There were other golems that were hanging in the vicinity that had to be killed - an admanite golem got caught on a fence, allowing Azuredge to take it down safely. This also got Russell VII level 31 - he used it for deva and set it after the Rakshakshas.
Since Russell VII definitely doesn't need the experience, he just put the items in the Temple to summon Rillifane and get rid of the enemies in the Temple - except Rillifane missed an iron golem, so Russell VII had to take care of that too.
Finally Russell VII gets to the palace. He rests and gets the dream with Ellesime - apparently Russell VII hasn't rested since leaving the Underdark Exit! He has one final thought (shown below)
Time to end this, one way or another - Irenicus, Russell VII is coming for you! (I will continue tomorrow - I want to be fully rested, don't want to make a careless mistake so close to the end of BG 2).
Thanks everyone for your congratulations!
@Serg, do you know whether MR blocks the Balors' vorpal attack? I suppose not. Good thing I wasn't playing with aTweaks, because I think in pure SCS this doesn't happen. I do consider playing another WS through BGT with all kinds of mods (including aTweaks), especially if Thani doesn't make it. Or maybe I won't, we'll see.
There might not be any updates this week or the next, because I want to play a normal, reload game of ToB, and take some nots before I go any further with Thani. I also started a run with a Priest of Talos a while back, and I feel like some play with him as well.
@Corey, love your lone Undead Hunter, best of luck against Jon boy.
@Corey, love your lone Undead Hunter, best of luck against Jon boy.
Thanks! Alesia_BH has shown it can be done, her undead hunter got far, and she was SCS and Ascension (she died at Abazigal). I kind of think I will get unstuck at Melissan, but will give it my best shot. I once had 4 paladins make it to Melissan, but we were wiped out - they weren't max level like Russell VII will be, we will see if that makes a difference...would be great to get a solo success, I've yet to do that.
@Corey: nice progress there, keep it up! (killing Adalon just to speed the things up isn't a Paladin way to go though, IMO...
You are implying this is a roleplaying run - I tell you now it isn't. If I were roleplaying, I would badly need a party. There are many things I did this run, I would not have done had I been roleplaying. For example, I wouldn't have got involved with Maevar at all (stealing for him, etc.), nor would I have killed the genies. But from practical standpoint I needed Maevar's cash, and I needed to kill the genies to get the Shield of Harmony right away.
Also, if I try to rescue Phaere, I run into the wizzy that likes to maze enemies - quite a problem for a soloer! (MANY a solo no-reloader have been mazed by that guy and ended their runs). The Phaere amush can be quite difficult for a non-arcane soloer. I avoid all this by doing what I did.
I would actually like to succeed at the trilogy.
@Serg, do you know whether MR blocks the Balors' vorpal attack? I suppose not. Good thing I wasn't playing with aTweaks, because I think in pure SCS this doesn't happen.
I just checked my Avatar's setup (SCS v.21 but sans-aTweaks):
So vanilla SCS v.21 Balor's Vorpal Attack has the same 15% probability, does bypass resistance but allows save vs Paralyze/Poison/Death at -4 penalty.
I don't know what saves Thani has at the moment but looks like she was pretty lucky there...
edit: on the other hand, it seems that aTweaks' vorpal attack doesn't allow save BUT doesn't bypass resistance.
Serg, very insightful information, thank you. Thani's Save v Paralyze/Poison/Death at the time of the final battle was -3: she had just received a -2 bonus from the Hell's trial and she had the Helm of Balduran equipped, though she did take that one off at some point whilst fighting the Balor.
Am I right in assuming that a Save of 1 is sufficient to always roll successfully, even on a roll of 1, provided that no penalty applies? If so, then the Balor's vorpal attacks were harmless up till the point whereThani equipped the Helm of Brilliance instead of that of Balduran (should have used the Helmet of Defense for fire resistance).
Corey, which wizard likes to maze players?
Was I lucky in a way, that I messed up on the first mission for Phaere (when Solaufein died and Phare became hostile)?
The mage is N'ashtar. He can be pretty dangerous for a solo player if you're not expecting him as he casts mislead early on and then sneaks up on you invisibly to maze you. If you are expecting him then damage spells from distance (like incendiary cloud) will quickly take him down or you can use summons or just wait out his buffs and then attack him from distance ...
Lilah, neutral evil half-elven mage/thief, update 5
After killing everything in the City of Caverns, Lilah entered the Underdark, killing some mind flayers and drow before taking care of the magical prison and Vithal.
The balor was quickly slain, and so were the kua-toa prince and the demon knights. Jaheira entered the beholder tunnels and took care of everything down there.
Next, the party explored the illithid city, and the first death of the party occured, with Jaheira instantly being killed during this battle (since I was very careful about intelligence loss and didn't study the combat log afterwards, I can only assume that two ulitharids hit her at exactly the same time). A RoR charge brought her back (and did the same with Valygar, who died in the following battle), and a couple of minutes later, the elder brain was defeated. Time to enter Ust'Natha.
Llilah saved Phaere via death spell, killed Quile and completed the other drow city quests including Deirex and House Jae'llat. After the egg switch, the party returned to the surface.
Now, this is where things went wrong. As some of you may recall, I had Montaron steal Drizzt's scimitar in BG1 for Kagain to use as his primary weapon. I had no idea this would have such dire consequences for my BG2 game (it was the first time I ever did this). Drizzt not only remembered Lilah (despite never actually seeing her), but also assumed she had killed him (which she didn't) and didn't believe her when she claimed to be a force for good now (which she is! she has max reputation!) - I later read that you can talk your way out of this battle, but I don't know how. The problem is, at this point Keldorn left the party and attacked Lilah, and Jaheira left as well (but only returned to Harper Hold, ready to be recruited again later) - I actually had no idea that this would happen, since antagonizing Drizzt is something I only ever did with an evil party.
So - the remaining few quickly killed Keldorn, and everyone but Lilah died a few seconds later, but their sacrifices provided the mage/thief (protected by stoneskins and mirror images) time to pick up all the equipment (including Keldorn's) and flee from the map. She resurrected her party at the temple district and returned to the docks, fought some githyanki and recruited Jaheira again. 1 down - but this does give me a good excuse to pick up Sarevok in ToB, something I thought about doing anyway (assuming I actually make it to ToB).
Anyway, the party cleared the secret illithid base, killed the shadow dragon and Firkraag without any trouble, explored the three new forest maps and entered the bridge district to face the Twisted Rune.
Here, traps and sunrays took care of the lich, while skeleton warriors distracted the other opponents. The opposing time stop was wasted, and Jaheira killed the beholder. The rest was simply breach + destroy.
The party entered the graveyard, Anomen was abducted, and helms of charm protection + a sunray were enough to stop the ambush. In the crypt, Eric was killed, but Jaheira and Minsc managed to defeat all of the vampires. Downstairs, Bodhi's group was blasted by another sunray before the vampire herself died.
Oh, and Lilah also tried to complete the gong quest, but Anomen (who was returned to his human form at the temple ruins) accidentally killed Grae with Crom Faeyr before she could talk. Meanwhile, the party members have received their first HLA (UAI for Lilah). Suldanessalar will be next!
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Thanks Grond0, my WS did face him. She pelted him with +1 arrows I think. I didn't even think of the Maze risk though 
Corey, which wizard likes to maze players?
Was I lucky in a way, that I messed up on the first mission for Phaere (when Solaufein died and Phare became hostile)?
The mage with Boz (the ogre with the +4 halberd) will maze, not sure how many he has. I don't know the mage's name off-hand. You get this ambush on the way to rescue Phaere.
Lilah, neutral evil half-elven mage/thief, update 6
In Suldanessalar, Lilah fought a couple of golems, rakshasa, demons and drow before preparing for the dragon. With a deva, some skeletons and lots of buffs, the beast was quickly slain, though everyone had to drink a potion to survive the insects.
The avatar took care of the opponents inside the temple, and Lilah entered the palace, destroyed the parasites and buffed for Jon. However, the fight was incredibly short - Irenicus was defeated before his buffs fired up (and I didn't even use any traps).
With the buffs still active, the group completed the hell challenges - the good way, except for Sarevok. Jon was summoned again - Lilah was well prepared, with some additional potions and skeleton warriors. The improved hasted warriors quickly took care of the demons, and soon, the party was chasing the slayer. With Lilah detecting illusions and breaching, Irenicus was quickly defeated, unable to deal any real damage to the party.
I also started doing some early ToB stuff, including Illasera, the first pocket plane challenge, equipping Sarevok, getting back the spellbook, helping the elves and killing Kiser. Lilah bought the few spells she was still missing from Lazarus and upgraded her Cloak of Protection +2.
Next time, the party will (hopefully) visit Gromnir.
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