Erebus
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The final battle in Storm of Zehir is quite challenging and one of the most entertaining parts of the game. I'm pretty curious to know how players with very different parties managed to win it.
Needless to say, people who haven't finished the game probably shouldn't read what follows.
My party consisted of four 15th-level characters : a rogue, a cleric (Water and Healing ; not very powerful as far as melee is concerned), a wizard and a sorcerer. Since the loot is quite poor in SoZ and I never bothered with the crafting system, their equipment wasn't too good.
The Herald of Zehir was the main threat. Any of my PCs getting in contact with this killing machine was likely to meet a swift death. My Stoneskin and Mirror Image spells did not hinder him at all. The fact that he and several other enemies had Evasion rendered many of my spells of little use.
N'Safa had a lot of priest spells : he could Destroy PCs too close to him, banish my summons, use Earthquake, blind my PCs (fortunately, I had spells and potions to fix that), etc. He could also heal himself, which made him hard to kill.
The 7 or 8 other enemies were less deadly but too dangerous to be ignored.
Finally, the four praying guys regularly generated magical effects.
I summoned what I could and sent my sorcerer (with Expeditious Retreat) forward. She had a scroll of Wail of the Banshee (freshly plundered from the temple's library), which she used to great effect as soon as the fight began. My wizard used a scroll of Meteor Swarm against one of the praying guys, my priest targetted another with two Ice Storms and I sent my rogue to murder the other two. While my summons acted as meat shields, I used Finger of Death and Destruction spells to slay all the remaining lesser enemies. Once I was facing only the Herald and N'Safa, I cast some summon spells again and healed my wounded PCs. I had the Herald chase my rogue. Thus isolated, he was a perfect target for Missile Storm spells (fortunately, I had a lot of those). I had my priest attack N'Safa to keep him busy. Once the herald fell, finishing N'Safa was a piece of cake. The whole affair involved a lot of running around.
I'd be quite interested in knowing how less magic-heavy parties managed to win this fight. Is it actually possible to kill the Herald with melee fighters ?
Needless to say, people who haven't finished the game probably shouldn't read what follows.
My party consisted of four 15th-level characters : a rogue, a cleric (Water and Healing ; not very powerful as far as melee is concerned), a wizard and a sorcerer. Since the loot is quite poor in SoZ and I never bothered with the crafting system, their equipment wasn't too good.
The Herald of Zehir was the main threat. Any of my PCs getting in contact with this killing machine was likely to meet a swift death. My Stoneskin and Mirror Image spells did not hinder him at all. The fact that he and several other enemies had Evasion rendered many of my spells of little use.
N'Safa had a lot of priest spells : he could Destroy PCs too close to him, banish my summons, use Earthquake, blind my PCs (fortunately, I had spells and potions to fix that), etc. He could also heal himself, which made him hard to kill.
The 7 or 8 other enemies were less deadly but too dangerous to be ignored.
Finally, the four praying guys regularly generated magical effects.
I summoned what I could and sent my sorcerer (with Expeditious Retreat) forward. She had a scroll of Wail of the Banshee (freshly plundered from the temple's library), which she used to great effect as soon as the fight began. My wizard used a scroll of Meteor Swarm against one of the praying guys, my priest targetted another with two Ice Storms and I sent my rogue to murder the other two. While my summons acted as meat shields, I used Finger of Death and Destruction spells to slay all the remaining lesser enemies. Once I was facing only the Herald and N'Safa, I cast some summon spells again and healed my wounded PCs. I had the Herald chase my rogue. Thus isolated, he was a perfect target for Missile Storm spells (fortunately, I had a lot of those). I had my priest attack N'Safa to keep him busy. Once the herald fell, finishing N'Safa was a piece of cake. The whole affair involved a lot of running around.
I'd be quite interested in knowing how less magic-heavy parties managed to win this fight. Is it actually possible to kill the Herald with melee fighters ?
(I remembered that Cha and not Wis was the primary stat when she was Level 15 already).
