Tactics "The Ritual" (SPOILERS)

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One question about the ritual quest of the tactics mod?

Would kill the Guardians, guarding the priest, who is fullfilling the ritual or would you let the ritual fullfill? Is there a difference in the Pontifex' reaction and reward?

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One more thing:

I now did different ways. Once I killed the princess, the other time I let her the ritual complet BUT:
I returned to Watchers ceep and got the 30.000 exp for everyone. 1 minute later iam teleported to a jungle where Iam killed by 5 red snakes/wyerns, etc... The battle against the dragon changed pontifex is impossible too ass he pounds my mainchar with dimension door and 3 time times stops. Iam at 4 million exp...

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There are three possible ending for the ritual itself, and two endings with the dragon.

First of all, you may attack the priestess - which will disrupt the ritual - but this will kill her, and Pontifex will be "angry"

Second of all, you can let the priestess finish the ritual - she will then vanish, but you get the rewards you would from Pontifex - the yellow guy will ofc be angry.

Third of all... You may disrupt the ritual WITHOUT killing the priestess, by interupting her casting any other way then damaging her. Examples : Fear, imprison then freedom, silence, mind flayer collar from underdark. Pontifex will be surprised that you did so well, and will give you additional reward - an armor - which otherwise is obtainable only via fighting him.

As for fighting the yellow dragon - which in my opinion is harder then Eclipse party and Improved Asylum mod party - only few pointers.

- Best way of surviving the regular time stops is having mage or sorcerer tank the dragon with "Protection from Magical weapons" (overpowered spell, but so is the dragon) Absolute immunity or even improved mantle MAY work, im not sure how "magical" his claws are. PfMG is however the best way to go, you will need the high lvl spells.

- If you have serious problems, run to the stairs to the left of watchers keep (the ones to lower levels). he wont be able to follow and you will be protected from SOME of his attacks.

- If you position whole party to the left (or right) of the dragon before the fight starts, he will wing buffet you all from Sand Golems reach, this may help.

- If you installed "Smarter dragons" and any mod that uses even MORE dragon casting cheese (example : smarter mages and liches. 20 sequencers per round) then prepare all the ruby rays, breaches, spellstrikes, lower resistances you can. You wont have much time to fire them so do get robe of vecna and amulet of power (even tho those are HEAVY cheese items)

- Give everyone some potions, the map-wide aoe spell he casts sometimes may hit for lots. I am unsure what damage it causes but one of my chars (which i buffed like hell) was immune to it, so do try out. My best guess would be acid or electrical.

- He is immune to fire (and unluckily best arcane spells are fire dmg) but Chain Conf with 3 horrid willings is great tool against this guy. However its wasted if you wont reduce his MR before. (sequencers, triggers)

- You may want to get a second mage / sorc for this fight. Also note - he teleports to you, so you cant run out of los (but you can run upstairs, as i said before)

Thats it. Use cheese to beat him good luck.

PS. Oh.. and the golems (Unit 0, unit 1, unit 2) are on HER side

PS2.

1 minute later iam teleported to a jungle where Iam killed by 5 red snakes/wyerns, etc...

Red Badge encounter. It has nothing to do with the Ritual. (get all the poison immunity items you can, its a walk in the park then. Chain Conf horrid willings and ring of gaxx for the main char makes it much easier)

PS3. (OT) Remember (for future tries) that you can extend the time you have to disrupt the ritual from 7hours to 15hours.


Yet another edit :

After a long battle (reloaded the game just to make the pic) the dragon got killed by.. [url="http://img15.yfrog.com/img15/87/beztytuusnq.png"]magic missile[/url]