First visit to Dragonspear.
First visit to Dragonspear.
Blaggerd is out again. Dorn was dominated and the party slowed. Voghiln got a haste off at the second attempt while Blaggerd lost about 30hp before his aura allowed a potion gulp.
No doubt he'll be recalled to do some more dirty work at another point.
Frith the Fearless and party have just about covered the minor quests in the Coast Way Crossing. Dynaheir died twice and Minsc once when fighting the lich, but Frith raised them again.
They haven't yet crossed the river. With it all being new, things are very time consuming. I am enjoying the extension very much.
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They tried to cross over, but the bridge got blown up. ![]()
When my party moved to Dragonspear, their experience dropped to 161,000. IMO that is great. They appear to be at about the correct strength.
They needed the higher experience for the Drizzt Sga, but not now.
Greetings, fellow adventurers.
I've decided to post a progress of my run both on Beamdog boards and this forum. After all, I hope this will be my full run till the end of ToB.
@Julius: Welcome, and best of luck with your new run!
@Grond0: Sounds rough! Would a party make LoB easier?
@Gate70: Sorry to hear Blaggerd went down.
Well met and welcome to the Crew, Julius! Safe travels for your team!
@Grond0: Sounds rough! Would a party make LoB easier?
I suspect not in my case. A party would bring the usual benefits of making the PC much less vulnerable, but would also increase the amount of micro-management needed and require more encounters in order to gain XP. There's nothing particularly difficult about making progress with Freya anyway, it's just an issue of maintaining concentration and avoiding mistakes. A party would mean that mistakes would be less likely to be fatal, but I think the greater number of mistakes resulting from a longer run would be likely to over-ride that as far as I'm concerned.
Freya{11} - LoB sorcerer (1st and final update)I'm still trying to make progress with this challenge - and still failing!This time Freya was up to level 7 and just finishing off the ankhegs prior to going to Durlag's Tower. All but one of them in the nest was dead using tactics of going into sight of them before immediately going invisible - leaving the ankheg above ground to be webbed and then blinded while held.SpoilerThe last ankheg was brought above ground before I realised Freya only had one second level spell left - meaning that if she used it on web she would be unable to go invisible. To avoid the possibility of being ambushed while resting / travelling she rested invisibly in the nest before going back to the last ankheg. Regrettably I had forgotten by that time that the ankheg was already above ground. I did react pretty quickly and Freya went invisible as soon as she saw it, but the ankheg also reacted fast and a shot was already on the way before Freya disappeared (and with the doubled damage of LoB she had little chance of surviving that).Spoiler
Hard luck. ![]()
@Grond0 While playing as a solo jester in the LoB mode, I've discovered you need Shield+Mirror Image(better chance ankhegs and the like won't hit you)+Vampiric Touch(more hps)+Relair's Mistake wolf form(more APR)+Wand of Paralysis to be able to kill LoB enemies as a caster.
@Grond0 While playing as a solo jester in the LoB mode, I've discovered you need Shield+Mirror Image(better chance ankhegs and the like won't hit you)+Vampiric Touch(more hps)+Relair's Mistake wolf form(more APR)+Wand of Paralysis to be able to kill LoB enemies as a caster.
I did read that with interest, but it seems too risky to me for a solo character. Even if the ankhegs only hit with criticals and you had 4 mirror images, that would still give them a 1% chance of hitting for damage - and a LoB critical from an ankheg could easily be over 100 damage. I'm also not sure if mirrors would stop their acid damage anyway (they don't affect acid blob traps in the EE).
My intended tactics with web and blinding are 100% safe if carried out correctly - though that's of course quite a large if in my case ...
I did read that with interest, but it seems too risky to me for a solo character. Even if the ankhegs only hit with criticals and you had 4 mirror images, that would still give them a 1% chance of hitting for damage - and a LoB critical from an ankheg could easily be over 100 damage. I'm also not sure if mirrors would stop their acid damage anyway (they don't affect acid blob traps in the EE).
My intended tactics with web and blinding are 100% safe if carried out correctly - though that's of course quite a large if in my case ...
The thing is I needed all those buffs only for the period my jester used the wand of paralysis, not for the fighting itself. So the chance of being hit was very low. If managing timing right, you don't even need any buffs - just timing an aura in the wolf form (which gives additional speed) is enough.
Also, blinding an ankheg would mean it going under the surface and becoming unreachable.
Also, blinding an ankheg would mean it going under the surface and becoming unreachable.
Not in my game. If you're seeing that behaviour I suspect it's because you've tried blinding them without them being disabled already. If they're webbed before being blinded then there's no problem.
I take it that is the end of Freya.
Interesting write-up.
I take it that is the end of Freya.
Interesting write-up.
Crowd-controlling spells are very important in the LoB mode, even more than in the normal game. This is why spells like Spook, Horror, Hold Person are all valid choices for an arcane caster. You could have easily chosen Spook instead of Identify - you can ID in stores, as money is not a problem in a solo play. Casting spook on a xvart would have granted you a free way.
I wonder if it's possible to move pause to another key
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I wonder if it's possible to move pause to another key
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I did have a quick look, but didn't see anything promising a solution. After another death this morning which was partly the result of pause problems I've decided that I'm quite capable enough of making mistakes without the help of anything mechanical and ordered a new keyboard
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