Never's swords

koz-ivan · Post by **koz-ivan** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 10:37 am

i totaly cheesed this fight. tomi set to fire ranged weapons was zero help. & my 7th lv ftr was taking heavy damage, after grabbing the gear, i ported back to the temple.

ran across the street and hired the barbarian, leveled him, and ported back in - focused most of my attacks on the only damaged sword, after taking serious damage, keep porting back, rest & back to the fight, once one sword "dies" it's much easier as the odds swing back into your favour, still i think i must have ported in and out about 5 times...

despite getting the cash for the treasure i think that little encounter cost my ftr more money...

Kibblez · Post by **Kibblez** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 12:18 pm

I've enjoyed this thread... I tried three times originally and just got thrashed; so I waited until I had leveled and just happened to find a Wall-of-Flame scroll. (I'm a Bard, so can use any magical items like this.)

Again I had the half-orc henchy and I think all I could summon was a dire boar. I cast the fire-wall immediately and sure enough, the swords got toasted nicely, I believe one died, two were injured and one unharmed. I sang the bard-song and passed out haste potions, then began healing the orc. Piggie didn't make it; I was able to finish off his sword while henchy did the rest.

This was my toughest fight until late in chapter two. Illusk tomb (*shiver*) - but I'll wait a bit to bore everyone with that one... I still haven't had to resort to bailing out via the stone-of-recall or running out of the area... that's just too cheezy for my "mighty" bard.

--Kibblez

Izgoth · Post by **Izgoth** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 4:05 am

Doh I seem to have missed that dungeon.

SPOILER!

Is that the place behind the book shelf? I only found a few skeletons and a door I couldn't open or break.

archerknight · Post by **archerknight** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 1:55 pm

It's behind the bookcase where you have to say the secret word.

Spoiler

The note in the chest gives the clue of which artifact to put in the chest. I think it's the arrow. Then you can open the door.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 12:25 am

Nice to see I was not the only one who found those swords difficult...I play with core rules, and my ranger is an archer lvl 5 + lvl 1 rouge. First time I came in, I had Shaewyn(sp? the bard anyway) with me, and we both got killed in a sec. Reload...brought Daelan (the half-orc) instead, drank all potions I had (barkskin, aid, cat's grace) and ran around all over the place. I got a couple of shots at one of the swords, then I ran down the stairs to the right, a couple of shots again, continued to run...Daelan died when 2 swords were still uninjured, and 1 was badly wounded, so I teleported back to the temple and got him, then continued to run and shoot arrows of piercing until all the swords were gone.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 12:22 pm

My fighter/rogue 4/2 didn't have much problems with them.
Haveing Daelan with me, the team is heavy on meele, still had to teleport to the temple a couple of times to get Daelan and get some healing, but didn't neeed a reload ( Stone of Recall has saved me often

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koz-ivan · Post by **koz-ivan** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 12:28 pm

on 2nd attempt i used a 9th monk & grimgaw henchman, totally rocked the swords world, just stood there and fought it out. drank a few cure crit potions and that was it.

Absolute · Post by **Absolute** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 9:38 am

I bought the greater belt of swordmanship (the one that gives slashing resistance) & beat them on my second try.

I had the barbarian henchman. Before I went in I swallowed potion of bull's strenght, potion of speed, barkskin & bless.

I remained behind my henchman, then when the swords targetted on him, I slashed them to pieces from behind. When my henchman died, there was only one sword left and I beat it easily.

I play on maximum difficulty, and was a 7th or 8th level fighter at the time.