Archmage at Veteran LVL

[bannock]

At mercenary lvl I had excellent help when stuck at the archmage point.
Now I have reached the same position at veteran lvl. My characters are now all lvl 68. At mercenary lvl the archmage had 90,000 health points, but now at veteran lvl he has over 600,000 points and this seems excessive. My query
is should the same advice work for veteran lvl? I have spent a fair number of hours at this point.
Bannock

[HCTwinJava]

just kill him the same way.

it won't necessarily take more time, because you now do more than 600k / 90k = 7x damage that you did at merc level.

[Ginremy]

The Archmage has proven to be my arch-nemesis at the Veteran level too.

I've actually gotten him down to 24,000 HP only to have him erect a crystal shield and activate 100% of the obelisks. Kills my whole party every time!

[gid]

Don't be afraid to smack the space bar to pause the game and look around, finding where the safest place to direct your party in mirror mode. I was able to avoid all the missiles this way.

You can also shoot the obelisks to use them for yourself to become invulnerable.

You might want to save up your hero powers when get gets close to dying, then you can do one final push to finish him off real quick once he goes into crystal sheild mode, activating all the obelisks. Also, picking up a lap dragon and maturing it might help things out, the power regen rate on it's dragon scales spell is, to quote the pet faq, ungodly. He's now my favorite pet.

[bannock]

Success Possible Spoiler

I have now at last killed the Archmage at Vet. lvl. I used my two tanks(fighters), and my ranger, these three only. With only 3 characters the archmage has 450,000 points instead of 600,000 and this worked! the ranger took out the spelled oblisks and the tanks did the rest. I feel I should add that
the Archmage was much more trouble than Valdis who I took out first time. I will say that it took several tries but eventually this worked.
Bannock.