Solo assassin help

cbarchuk · Post by **cbarchuk** » Tue May 15, 2012 9:56 pm

Trying to solo the game with an assassin. Started out a bit slow but now I've gotten a few HLAs and some nice equipment and things have been going much smoother until I decided to try Watcher's keep. The 1st and 2nd level were no problem. The third has been an extreme test of patience. By luck, I've gotten up to the fight with Ka'rashur and his buddies. I can last a long time but I can't even put a dent in these guys. I go in fully buffed and basically I'm just zipping around the screen throwing my crimson dart. These baddies can see through stealth, are immune to backstab, and poison. Traps aren't an option either. I really don't want to skip the fight but I'm starting to think I have to. This fight is making this character act in a manner that it was never designed for.:laugh: Any suggestions?

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Tue May 15, 2012 11:38 pm

Astute use of wands, potions and scrolls. Don't waste your time with fire though, give yourself stoneskin, resistance to magic and magic damage and keep firing wands, then going invisible, using scrolls; rinse and repeat.

cbarchuk · Post by **cbarchuk** » Wed May 16, 2012 6:28 am

Definitely not a bad idea. The only issue is I haven't been saving my wands...ugh. The only advantage I've been able to get is right as I enter the room, all the baddies are still blue. At that point I unpause and move right next to the portal I just came through which leaves me out of sight of the Ka'rashur and his team of misfits. I'm going to mess around with this a few more times see If I can't get some traps to work. If not I may have to go get me some wands and come back.

EDIT: Wow, I just did it and it was easy. As soon as I entered the room I backed up near the portal where I was out of eyesight from Ka'rashur. I laid a bunch of regular, spike, and a time trap and drew them to me one at a time. Worked like a charm. So moral of the story: More traps...lol.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Wed May 16, 2012 8:14 am

As soon as your wands start running low on charges head to your nearest store, sell them, then buy them back. If you sell them to one of the fences, you can even steal them back, thereby not only gaining recharged wands, but making some money as well!

cbarchuk · Post by **cbarchuk** » Wed May 16, 2012 8:22 am

Nice...lol. Good to know.

Okay, the demon wraith was next. This time there was no getting out of LOS to set traps. I was able to do it but it was extremely cheesy and it took me about 15 minutes or so to do it. Any suggestions here would be great but this is what I did:

1. Use a scroll of protection from magic
2. Oil of Speed
3. Zipped around the screen, first disarming traps, and then throwing my crimson dart at the demon wraith for a whopping 1 pt of damage.
4. Occasionally I would use a wand of spell striking to lower its defenses.
5. Continued zipping around the screen doing 1 pt of damage to the wraith till it finally fell...:laugh:

Is that lame or what?

Space Invader · Post by **Space Invader** » Wed May 16, 2012 8:32 am

Not more lame than using the fog of war to aggro one enemy at the time :laugh:
You're forced to use this kind of expedients due your class limitations, I wouldn't feel guilty for that

cbarchuk · Post by **cbarchuk** » Wed May 16, 2012 9:30 am

Yea I really just couldn't think of anything else to do. Yea the fog of war really helped out tremendously. I just killed off Aesgareth and his goons. This fight was extremely difficult and I just got lucky I think. At any rate heavy use of traps were deployed and thank goodness the tieflings were not immune to poison. I also used Fog of War cheese again to pull the fel cats to my traps and then I was able to more or less take down the tieflings one at a time by using poison. Aesgareth was last and, at that point, he had no defenses up so I just shot him with my bow till he dropped. Not pretty at all. I wish I could've recorded it. Pretty funny is more like it. I'm also soloing an elven fighter/thief who absolutely dominated every level of Watcher's Keep. The assassin has been tough mainly due to the fact that he can't fight in melee very well at all.