Battle at tree of life, first time playing

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They didn't overexaggerate when they said Jon was powerfull. Bloody impossible to even get him down to
barely wounded.the instant the fight starts, he somehow casts prot. from magic weapons, absolute immunity, invisibility, sanctuary, stoneskin, firesheild read and blue and timestop. Goddam impossible. I did manage to kill him, once, when his spell protections ran out but then my entire party save for the protaganist was dead, so all my items dissapeared when I was spirited away from the scene.
After two hours of getting killed, I'm pretty angry at lil' Jonny. How are you supposed to kill him with all those protections on? Remove magic and the such has no effect it seems so I'm pretty clueless.

 

The easiest way to do it is to start the fight by running away a distance and waiting for some of his protections (and timestop) to wear off. Beyond that your tactics would depend on the composition of your party.

 

Use a protection from magic scroll on him (although his contingency spells ignore the protection effect, so either carry more than one, or just hack away at him, as he can't cast things at you).

 

Protection from magic? Won't that make me unnable to harm him in any way as more than half my party are spellcasters?

 

Shape shift into a iron golem = dead Jon Let the rest of the party run or bring down some buffs.

 

I would go with lots and lots of snares. They'll bust through all his defences and you can lay them out before you approach him. Then run away until some of his defences expire. Throw in a few summons to keep him busy as well.

 

Doesn't Breach, Warding Whip, Ruby Ray of Reversal, and Peirce Magic work on him!?

 

Jon throws a highly illegal spell trigger instantly which throws up Stoneskin, Absolute Immunity, Fireshield, Spell Trap and Spell Shield, followed by Mislead and something else, generally followed by Time Stop. You need a +5 weapon to hit (either Crom Faeyr or Carsomyr) and the first anti-spell attack you launch will fail. You have one round before he double-Time Stops and starts with the nastiness. Since it's a bitch to get through that in one round, the easiest thing to do is run like hell. The Cloak of Mirroring will work like a charm against Jonny boy in SoA.

If you can't use dmc's advice but you've got a bunch of spellcasters, I'd suggest that you do the following: cast True Seeing for a couple of people so that the Mislead won't save him for long, and have a couple of spell triggers ready with Secret Word and Breach ready. Make sure it's MULTIPLE spell triggers - and wait until his invisibility has been disrupted before firing the triggers. Also, for any weak spellcasters, cast Spell Immunity: Conjuration before you slay the last parasite, since Jon loves Power Word Kill.

Once his defences drop, Jon is easy prey for a melee character. Just make sure to keep Breaching him as soon as he throws up Protection From Magic Weapons or Stoneskins, since that will give him enough respite from your attacks to obliterate you. I prefer to beat the snot out of enemies up-close-and-personal, but you have to know when to cut and run, and against Jon is often one of those time.

 

Unequip Carsomyr, equip a non-magical two handed sword.

 

Go to the Adventurer's Mart in Waukeen's Promenade. Buy as many Time Stop and Spellstrike scrolls as you can. These are available as Ribald's "special wares." When he's sold out, end the dialogue and start a new one. Buy some more. He never seems to run out.

When you go back to fight Jon the cheater, have 5 party members close for melee and your wizard should cast Time Stop, Spell strike, Spell strike, Time Stop, Spellstrike, Spellstrike. Unless my computer has a bug, it's perfectly legal. I took Jon down like a ***** with only one reload.

 

True Sight+Resist Fear before battle,
Breach+Breach + hack him to death during the second battle.
The easiest way.

 

Shapeshift into an iron golem? Huh? Is that even possbile? The only thing I can shapeshift into is a troll, a smelly goo of jelly and a rat. I have neither peirce magic or ruby ray of reversal but when I try the warding whip and breach Immy, Aeire and Nalia start casting but halfway throghu they all die stimultaniusly for some unknown reason. The text in the message window scrolls by too fast for me to read.
DMC, I don't have a clue about his spells, or any spellseffects for that matter. I've tried summons but I tend to end up dead way before they even appear
Spell trigger? Out of the question. Can't rest anywhere and don't have them memorized.
A +5 weapon to hit? Well that would explain alot. The best weapon I have is Daystar (+4?) and a +4 twohanded sword I got off Ribald.
Would the fact that the average level of my pary being level 12-14 (Kurt is level 19 for some weird reason) have any significant effect?

I honestly didn't think playing the game on easy would be so hard.

 

The +5 requirement for magic weapons only comes into effect when he is under the Protection from Magic Weapons spell, which makes him immune to all weapons from +1 to +4, but not non-magical weapons or +5 or greater. Who do you have in your party?

 

Hmm, high powerfull weapons, like Crom Faeyr, The Wave and the Equalizer do some damage to him, but you should just move away from him, and rest if you can, that should take care of his protections.

 

My party consists is Kurt (Human bezerker), Minsc, Jaheira, Imoen, Nalia and Aeire.

The Equalizer works? Gotta try that one. And Crom Faeyr and The Wave I have only parts of. I believe they've been eaten by nishruus or something.

 

Well, as I suggested earlier, use a Protection from Magic scroll on him, and set Minsc, your Bereserker and Jaheira on him, and maybe even the others too, in hand-to-hand, as the poor old mage will be unable to hurt any of you in return. It might take longer, but it is safer.

 

Protection from magic scroll? Where can I get one of those? I do not recall having one in my inventory...

 

Ah, well if you don't have any by now, its probably too late, unless you saved before entering the tree-city. You can get some from the Adventurer's Mart, the woman in the top left corner sells some, and I think that some of the merchants in Waukeen's Promenade might have some.

 

Fortunatly, I do belive I have a save before entering the tree. A hellufalot of backtracking to do though. Protection from magic sheilds against *all* kinds of magic I take it? Even buffing and protecting ones? Why haven't I thought of that one before?

Personally I like my games to be challenging. I play most on medium or hard but BGII seems a little unbalanced between the types of enemies. Meh. I'll try it tonight and see if it works.