the almighty harm

BALDURPLAYER · Post by **BALDURPLAYER** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:33 am

wow this time i play i started using this harm and all i can say is DAMN. dragons won't even last 10 seconds when i spell trigger 3 lower resistance and then have jaheira use harm(+critical strike HLA for 100% to hit) + 1 magic missile and dragon's out. i'm just wondering is it suppose to be this powerful? also is there any monster immune to harm?

SupaCat · Post by **SupaCat** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:46 am

Harm is very powerfull. Hell, have it in NWN and you can win all the battles. However, undead heal when you use harm on them, so that's the downside, and it's in AD&D a touch spell.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:01 am

In 'Old School' AD&D it was also considered an evil spell, use of which would lead to expulsion and loss of divine favour from 'good' gods. It was also a clerical spell not available to Druids, so Jaheira shouldn't have it.

Either late 2nd edition AD&D completely changed things around, or the devs of BG2 screwed up on implementation again.

thebannedone · Post by **thebannedone** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:04 pm

No monster except demiliches, bonegolems, magicgolems and rakshasa(ruhk) are immune to harm, these few exceptions have spell level immunity up to lvl 6 and higher and harm is counted as a lvl 6 spell thus cant get trough(and magicgolems are immune to magical weapons also). Though if a creature has spell turning, spell deflection, spell trap or protection from magical weapons on the effect cant get trough, also magic resistance can block harm.