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"kevin" <khiggins2@nyukhouston.rr.com> wrote in message news:<HszCc.5281$OX2.3857@fe2.texas.rr.com>...
> > > "Bill" <bcouch@completeprogrammer.net> wrote in message
> > > news:dffcd032.0406212159.1efc943f@posting.google.com...
> > >
> > OK, I restarted from the beginning of the fight. Thank goodness I had
> > done a save after all my memorization and buffing prior to using the
> > last Tear! (Learned my lesson after the first reload.)
> >
> > I didn't really want to do the Ctrl-Y thing, so I fought it out again.
> > That made me realize how fortunate I had been last time, as I got
> > smoked... Reload again.
>
> Yeah, it's a challenging fight. My last time I made it through without
> dying, and that's the only time I've accomplished that. The key for me
> is to take the dragon out quickly - I had a time stop go into effect just
> as it stuck it's snout into view - hoo ha, what perfect timing.
>
> >This time, after fine-tuning my tactics for
> > each enemy, I made it through, using the Rod of Ressurection to bring
> > back Keldorn and Sola mid-battle! Whew!
>
> BTW, you don't have to kill the shadows to get to fights 2 & 3.
> I don't know what happened on your original attempt.
>
> As for ctrl-y - my game sometimes freezes when I kill Irenicus, so I
> try to save him for last so that if it does crash or freeze I can ctrl-y
> them all and feel good about it. I get a bonus of no potions or ammo
> used and no dead or even wounded companions but that doesn't
> even nearly make up for the aggravation of having to reboot!
>
> Ha, then again, it sometimes crashes just as I'm facing a fairly certain
> death.
>
> > Jon 2 appears, and my luck returns... I get teleported buck naked down
> > to the south stairs and Jon the Slayer comes down to attack. I had 3
> > Skeleton Warriors ready to go in a sequencer... John comes down the
> > stair toward me and I fire off the sequencer right at him... and the
> > three skeletons arise around him, perfectly surrounding him and
> > pinning him against the wall!
>
> Ooh, I never thought of something like this!
Well, I sure never had it work that perfectly before!
>
> >Jon is so intent on getting to me, that
> > he never attacks the skeletons! Unfortunately, they only hit him on
> > rolls of 20, but I'm in no hurry... Let's hear it for the long
> > duration of Animate Dead! Eventually they finish him off. Just like
> > I planned it. ;-)
>
> Of course!
>
> I usually race back to my equipment stash and get the boots of speed
> and quaff an oil of speed and then I'm a bit faster than Jon - run away,
> shoot and similar acts of heroism follow until he finally dies. <g>
>
> fireshields/pro from magical weapons help too.
> (just in case you sometime fail to hem him in)
>
> > Jon 3 appears, and I'm concerned, as the party is pretty spent from
> > the initial battle. I page through Jon's list of protections and my
> > nerves fray some more. I gulp hard and read off a Spell Strike scroll
> > I've been saving (I hope there's another one in ToB somewhere). My
> > fighters apply some Oils of Speed and move in. Keldorn uses his last
> > Dispel Magic, and Jon's defenses crumble.
>
> Good grief, don't you have Carsomyr?!
I do, but it didn't seem very useful in the first fight. Nor did
Arrows of Dispelling. The only thing that seemd to work was Keldorn's
high-power Dispel Magic.
By the way, why did the text keep saying the Jon's aura was clensed.
Sounds like something Phoebe would to Ross on Friends.
>
> Whack, whack, whack, a
> > litle chasing, Death spell on a magic sword, one last Breach, whack,
> > whack, it's all over! I can't beleive it. Slightly anti-climatic,
> > but I don't care!
>
> Yeah, the first fight is by far the toughest.
>
> > Anyway, it's such a fun fight, I just had to tell the story.
>
> >On to ToB...
>
> Do you have ascenscion?
Um, I thought I did. Was it supposed to kick in before the firt ToB
fight? As I mentioned before, I haven't played this far since the
unmodded SoA-only days, so I don't know what to expect.
Thanks,
Bill
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