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After a second look I've realised that none of Wyrmlord's tactics for defeating Illithids are even possible at the start of BG2.
Wyrmlord said:#1 Illithid Mind-flayers and Ulitharid in Baldur's Gate 2
There's no HP bloat or high attack damage in these creatures. They have but one strength. They take possession of the minds of your entire party, turn them against each other, and use psychic domination to attempt to kill you instantly. How do you kill something that takes control of other people's brains? By killing it with something that does not have a brain. Skeleton warriors and Mordekainen's sword must be summoned to confront them, since they can't be psychically possessed. Alternatively, you have to send an invisible party member to scout ahead, and then land a Death Fog on them in order to kill at least two of them. And then finish the rest of them off with an Invisible Stalker, since they are immune to offensive spells and physical damage.
Supposing that the moment you leave Irenicus' dungeon, you head straight for Firkraag's lair after getting the quest from the Copper Coronet. There, you take the sewer key from the Tazok guy from BG1. Once you are done with Firkraag's lair, you head back to the city and enter the temple sewers.
-Mordenkainen's sword is a 7th level spell that can only be found in Underdark.
-Skeleton warriors can only be summoned by a level 15 priest.
-Invisible stalker is a 6th level spell and there's only one scroll for it in Chapter 2, at Prebek's house
-Death fog is a level 6th spell and the only way to get it during Chapter 2 is to buy it at Trademeet
The route Wyrmlord allegedly took wouldn't have given him a chance to acquire any of those scrolls, except through random drop, but the odds of them all randomly dropping during Firkragg's dungeon are practically 0. He wouldn't even be able to memorize any of them in the first place, and summoning skeleton warriors is impossible for a low level cleric. If he somehow did obtain the needed scrolls through random drop he'd use them all up on the first group of Illithids he encountered anyway. So basically his tactics are impossible.
Been a long while since I played BG2, but can't Druids summon Fire Elementals pretty early on? And aren't they immune to mind control?
I seem to recall using them a lot in the early levels of BG2...
correct; Druids have the 6th level spell 'Conjure Fire Elemental'. Going by the BG2 ruleset this allows them to cast this spell at level 11 for the first time (iirc you start a BG2 druid at level 8 or 9).