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Beating Drizzt fair and square

Discussion in 'Baldur's Gate (Classic)' started by dshadow, Feb 12, 2003.

  1. dshadow Gems: 8/31
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    Has anyone ever got the better of him in a fair fight? I don't mean firing arrows at him while he's fighting gnolls or enclosing a character in a sphere or lowering the pathfinding, but in a straight and fair fight? Every time I've tried he's just slaughtered me and I'm lucky to even land a blow on him.
     
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    Why is using a magic sphere unfair?

    The Wizards Union doesn't think so! :lol:

    It's a legal level 4 Mage spell in the game if you have TotSC. No hacking involved...
     
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    With a f/t i pickpocketed for his swords and then used them to beat him down. I was quite high in level at the time. He never really retaliated though, just kept running about the screen like he had morale failure. So i quaffed some speed potions and strength potions and left my character attacking him while i went to make food (having turned most autopauses off).
     
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    I think he means good old fashioned melee combat.
     
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    Loerand My heart holds no fear for death

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    He's kinda hard to take out man-to-man-melee, especially if your xp-cap is still on. I just fired arrows at him after i talked to him. Boots of Speed + Oil of Speed + 40+Piercing arrows = dead Drizzt. I don't kill him in my true Pole-playing games, because i'm a Ranger :)
     
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    "I think he means good old fashioned melee combat."

    Well in the big scheme of things I always try brain power over brawn first.

    In the AD&D world that means:

    If you can make a fight easier with a spell, then that's the way to go! :D
     
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    Yes, I meant in melee combat. Hand-to-hand. A nice clean fair fight. Or not that fair actually as you outnumber him six to one.

    So has anyone beat him in melee combat then?
     
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    I doubt it unless they got very lucky and got some critical hits in right away.

    He is suppose to be a level 16 superman against a modest level 6 - 8 party. ;)

    edit:
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    No more ugly yellow triangle thingy!
    Skydrops are much nicer. :)

    [ February 14, 2003, 01:36: Message edited by: Aces ]
     
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    Well if you could kill Drizzt with as much effort as it takes to kill a Gnoll ...

    Everybody would go that area at the earliest opportunity, get the scimitars and the mithril chain, and then coast through the rest of the game with such ridiculous ease that every monster is about as scary as Bambi and well ...

    You could accomplish that with the console anway.

    Making him a melee killer machine forces a party to use different methods and resources, albeit underhanded and dirty ones. And incidentally, the murder of Drizzt is more realistic for it.
     
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    The armor isn't that great, an Ankheg armor has the same AC and weight, but better modifiers (slash...). And it prevents your using magic protection rings. The advantage is you can wear it and use thief abilities.
    The best armor is the full plate mail, but expensive and heavy.

    Still another trick to defeat Drizzt unfair: conjure skeletons with your cleric, enough to completely surround Drizzt, and make them attack him (you may help with arrows): strangely he doesn't attack them back, he tries to reach you but can't.
     
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    Loerand My heart holds no fear for death

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    Man! I killed him "fair and square" last night, but that was in BG2... I was soloing and chrushed him with my lvl 21 Ranger. He wasn't even easy then so I think it's impossible to kill him the "fair and square" in BG1 without cheating. BTW I just "tried" to kill him. I'm a true roleplayer :)
     
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    Fair and square? Bah, it's still murdering an innocent. That's never going to be fair and square, no matter if you do that in melee or help yourself out some other way ;) So sayeth the uber-goody-goody.
     
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    The main difference between Drizzt's Mail and Full Plate is that a Ranger can still Hide in Shadows with it. Plus it looks cool and it's an accomplishment (killing Drizzt is hard).
     
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    Loerand My heart holds no fear for death

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    ...and with a fighter/mage you can still cast spells IIRC...
     
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    I wasn't aware of this. It makes the armor more attractive, but it's not in the ADD spirit (neither are the archmage robes IMO)
     
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    Drizzt is incredibly hard to beat in melee combat. Choose your party well, get a lot of melee fighters or bowmans (Kivan comes to mind). Then when fighting him, quaff down speed potions and strengh potions and any other potions around and you might have a chance.
     
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    Like I put in a post closely related to this one...

    Have 3 theives (fighter/thieves are better, I think, better THAC0) and have em all hide. Have your fighter/mage cast stoneskin and mirror image (have more ready, cuz they'll go down fast). Cast bless, chant and haste. Speed potions are good. It's not a really FAIR fight, but it's the closest to one that a normal party will get.
     
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    Or you could get your archer the Boots of Speed and the Bracers of Accuracy, then get him to launch arrows while your warriors keeps him distracted. Drizzt can attack very fast, so any melee attack against him is likely to fail because he seems to interrupt your attacks.
     
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    I tried some of the tricks mentioned here and they flat-out don't work. When I tried to pick his pocket for the swords and chain, it said target has no valid items. The skeleton trick doesn't work either, even if you're outta sight (no way it works if you can see him to fire arrows). I'm playing with TotSC and the most recent patch, so maybe things are different.

    I killed him the 'cheap' way: wand of monster summoning and an unrelenting missile barrage. By the way, sometimes that doesn't even work; the wand runs out of monsters and Drizzt kills them ALL. I don't think it's unfair, though. AD&D rewards clever tactics and not just brawn all day long. You want a tough fight? Try taking out Shandalar in Ulgoth's Beard . . .

    Just for fun, I cloned my Fighter PC to a party of six and gave him all 25 stats (still level 8). I took out the final demon in Ulgoth SOLO with this guy (normal stats). Six of these clones took on Drizzt toe-to-toe and he still managed to kill one.

    edited to add: I don't know about F/M, but Bards cannot cast while wearing his armor.
     
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    Loerand My heart holds no fear for death

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    I think that the armor has about 60% spell failure. Correct me if I'm wrong...
     
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