BG2 Blasted rakshasa...
Sophie Winkelman
my ass handed to me. Those three rakshasas are indestructible. What does it
take to beat them? I can't get off more than a spell or two (none of which even
work) before they cover the room in Cloudkill and disrupt my mages' ability to
cast. On top of that, most of my magical weapons don't work. Is there any
strategy for beating them? Should I wait for later in the game (my characters
are mostly 9th level now) or what? Help!
Sophie Winkelman
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John Tarkin
My strategy was this...
Have the sweet air spells at the ready as well as protection from magic
cast on your most powerful warrior. Make sure they are using +1 or
better weapons and have them lay into the first Rak. on teh ground
floor. Whwen you get the chance, cast a few animal spells to keep the
others busy. I also had a ranger launching +2 and fire arrows.
Eventually you'll get the first one dead. Have everyone retreat out the
building; they won't follow. Sleep off the wounds, and head back in.
Once the first one is dead, the others are a piece of cake since they
don't cast many spells.
Good luck.
Dianne McKinzie
I'm still not sure how I managed to kill them, but somehow I did. Minsc was
dual wielding two axes (gave him a proficiency there), one of which is a
plus three axe that does cold damage, the other a plus two. My character, a
monk, wielded a plus two sword long sword. I'm pretty sure those were the
only weapons that physically hit them. The rest of my party was Anomen,
Jahiera, Aerie, and Cernd (I know, can you believe we defeated them?). I
fortunately had two of the cleric spells, Zone of Clear Air, memorized. My
first spell failed. Second attempt worked, which was a really good thing
because my party was dying. Everyone drank some of those extra healing
potions, which helped, as well. I don't think I cast one offensive spell
at any of those guys which got off any damage. So I tried all the defensive
spell magic: haste, bless, protection from evil ten foot radius (GREAT
spell), etc. All of my clerical characters were kept very busy with healing
spells to back up my two fighters. Eventually they were dead. Those
raksasa deal out a tremendous amount of phyiscal damage when fighting as
well, so be ready with as many healing spells as possible. I tried using
some plus two bullets on them, and I'm pretty sure they didn't work, so it
may very well take a plus three weapon or higher to hit them. This was a
nasty fight. Hope this helps and good luck.
"Sophie Winkelman" <novus...@aol.comhikeeba> wrote in message
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Soren Rasmussen
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>I'm still not sure how I managed to kill them, but somehow I did.
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> I don't think I cast one offensive spell
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I seem to recall that rakshasas are completely immune to all spells
level 1 through 8 (!), and that you need +2 or higher weapons to
damage them. Tough hombres.
Soren
Jacob Fontenot
two of these very early. Skeletons are hard to hit and Rakshasa have
swords - which do almost nothing to them. And I'm not sure these things
have 100% magic resistance. Try to disrupt with Magic Missle and certainly
with bows.
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IHCOYC XPICTOC
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: Sophie Winkelman wrote:
: > I'm trying to complete the second half of the Trademeet quest and I'm getting
: > my ass handed to me. Those three rakshasas are indestructible. What does it
: > take to beat them? I can't get off more than a spell or two (none of which even
: > work) before they cover the room in Cloudkill and disrupt my mages' ability to
: > cast. On top of that, most of my magical weapons don't work. Is there any
: > strategy for beating them? Should I wait for later in the game (my characters
: > are mostly 9th level now) or what? Help!
Cast Silence 15' radius on your lead fighters. Then just charge. The
rakshashas have very good magic resistance. They also have dozens of
spells, incl. Cloudkills, which they cast at their own feet, confident it
won't hurt them. But if a silenced character enters melee with them, they
won't be able to cast their spells either. And since the way to take them
down is to simply hammer on them with your best (+2 needed, I
think) magical weapons, if they cast no spells they will eventually
fall. They are tough in melee as well, But not that tough.
Generally, you have to hoard your magic from one battle to the next. The
enemy has no reason to, and will let loose with everything they
got. Anything that prevents them from casting will be better than any
spell you can cast yourself.
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"zone of sweet air" to counter their cloudkill spells.. and haste... they went
down quickly
Serafin Nunez
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Focus fire the entire party on melee this cleric (except the melee you placed on the other guy, leave him there) Beat him to death. Scoop up his cleric staff =3. Equip it and focus fire entire party on melee remaining companion and beat him to death. Focus fire all ranged on Adratha and hit her with a Lower Resistance. Remove magic and unload on her with everything you got left. Everyone using their best attack.
EZ PZ
Auric__
> On Wednesday, September 27, 2000 at 7:48:21 PM UTC-7, Sophie Winkelman
> wrote:
>> I'm trying to complete the second half of the Trademeet quest and I'm
>> getting my ass handed to me. Those three rakshasas are indestructible.
>> What does it take to beat them? I can't get off more than a spell or two
>> (none of which even work) before they cover the room in Cloudkill and
>> disrupt my mages' ability to cast. On top of that, most of my magical
>> weapons don't work. Is there any strategy for beating them? Should I wait
>> for later in the game (my characters are mostly 9th level now) or what?
>> Help!
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> before you begin the fight.
on you as soon as you walk in the door.
> Put protection from lightning on everyone in the party. Dont talk to her
> just shoot her with an arrow and to begin the encounter then DO NOT ATTACK
> HER OR CAST ON HER AGAIN UNTIL HER COMPANIONS ARE DEAD. She is immune to
> all attacks until her companions fall.
it's been a while since I played it.) I usually kill Ihtafeer first, since
she's closest to the entrance.
> As soon as her companions become targetable Put one melee on each
> and then cast Spell thrust or pierce magic at the one on the right (he
> is a cleric) followed immediately (preferably by multiple casters)
> insect swarm and miscast magic. Focus fire the entire party on melee
> this cleric (except the melee you placed on the other guy, leave him
> there) Beat him to death. Scoop up his cleric staff =3. Equip it and
> focus fire entire party on melee remaining companion and beat him to
> death.
> Focus fire all ranged on Adratha and hit her with a Lower Resistance.
> Remove magic and unload on her with everything you got left. Everyone
> using their best attack.
> EZ PZ
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