Easy way to kill Arkanis or any immortals

KensaiRyu · Post by **KensaiRyu** » Sat Mar 17, 2001 9:55 am

I am posting this so everyone can see that it has been discovered that the immortals in the game can be killed. The credit goes to ripper for the idea, but i have come up with a stratetgy for fighting Arkanis, and Harper Harkell so you can get Drizzits equipment, (and Maevars) without cheating.
Things you need to kill immortal:

Scroll of shapechange (must have)
Protagonist that has the spell prot from magic weapons or the scroll of magic prot found in adv mart.

Cast prot from magic weapons on protagonist before fight (or use scroll in Adv mart). Use scroll of shapechange, pick mindflayer.
Attack shadow thieves in guild (after you've been 2 underdark).When Arkanis appears attack him with mindflayer while hes attacking protagonist. If hes still alive, repeat. The int drain from the mindflayer gets em all, dont matter what belt hes wearing (in this game my pro was a mage so i killed him myself). Also anyone protected from magic weapons wont be harmed by his deadly attack.He was dead in about 4 seconds.
Note: i had the scroll of shapechange on me after completing underdark, not sure where i got it but i think it was from one of the high level cowled wiz parties or a random encounter.

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In such times we may need the powerful magics of the past, and the heroes to wield them.

Kovi · Post by **Kovi** » Sat Mar 17, 2001 10:49 am

Good work guys!
As the Shapechange scroll is probably not available in the first chapters you can use a one time wish from a Limited Wish scroll/spell. There is one in the Adventurer's mart.

The Outsider · Post by **The Outsider** » Sat Mar 17, 2001 2:54 pm

Now, the question is:

How much exp is he worth? what kind of stuff does he carry?

rapier · Post by **rapier** » Sat Mar 17, 2001 3:14 pm

Well, none of both I'd guess, coz it was never calculated that anyone would crap around til he finds out hoow to kill these guys...

RiPPeR · Post by **RiPPeR** » Sat Mar 17, 2001 4:05 pm

yeah, you could use death ward so arkanis will not kill your character with 1 blow

T'Challa · Post by **T'Challa** » Sat Mar 17, 2001 7:40 pm

When you kill the immortals, how does that keep the game from going to a dead end?

KensaiRyu · Post by **KensaiRyu** » Sat Mar 17, 2001 8:57 pm

strangely enough you get no exp for killing him (big suprise there), he merely dies.All he is carrying is the same leather you get from completing Umar hills.

Melkor · Post by **Melkor** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 5:39 am

you could always just ask them all to help you kill bhodi(sp) and then watch them die.

KensaiRyu · Post by **KensaiRyu** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 7:00 am

The fun part about killing him is the fact that it supposedly cant be done. This is just another example why the game developers have a hard time making the game hard, we, the gamers, can overcome anything they make, given time. I like doing things that supposedly cant be done and when you have beat the game solo with almost every clas (havent tried beastmaster yet

you look to do new and different things with it, to keep havin fun. Besides i never said you should do it, i only gave a strategy for doing (nice having 3 pairs of boots of speed!).

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In such times we may need the powerful magics of the past, and the heroes to wield them.

RiPPeR · Post by **RiPPeR** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 9:09 am

yeah, next time i will play a beastmaster solo to use two drizzt cimitar

KensaiRyu · Post by **KensaiRyu** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 10:40 am

Good idea.

Gomez · Post by **Gomez** » Mon Mar 19, 2001 2:53 am

Very interesting, KensaiRyu and Ripper. But how do you kill the harper that takes away Drizzt's equipment? He just teleports in, takes your stuff, and teleports out. You don't have time to even attack him.

RiPPeR · Post by **RiPPeR** » Mon Mar 19, 2001 8:23 am

i never met him, but they say if you leave the equipement out of your inv he will try to kill you then you kill him

KensaiRyu · Post by **KensaiRyu** » Fri Jun 15, 2001 3:23 am

For the harper I made a patch it is at Arundors Abode at :
[url="http://go.to/arundor"]http://go.to/arundor[/url]

Keep in mind if you have any romance patches it could overwrite them. If anyone is intersted I could send them a different patch that only replaces Harpers script so it wont affect any romances. (The one I created only will if they edit Baldur.bcs which I doubt they will) try exporting the Baldur.bcs file to your override directory, if it asks you to overwrite Baldur.bcs then say no cause something else is using that script.

Chade Fallstar · Post by **Chade Fallstar** » Fri Jun 15, 2001 5:59 am

Just one question: Who is Arkanis?

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Fri Jun 15, 2001 6:06 am

If you try to kill the guy on the second floor of the shadow thief building, while not working for bodhi, he will appear. He is immortal (always stays on near death no matter how much dmg you do to him) and kills everyone in one hit.

@rapier: Have you tried killing imoen in irenacus' dungeon? If you have removed the XP cap and then you import your char again (and have shapechange in your spell book) you should be able to kill her. I have never tried that myself though.

Tigerin · Post by **Tigerin** » Fri Jun 15, 2001 7:07 am

I killed her, though she still appeared when you go up and out the dungeon...

Robin_Hood · Post by **Robin_Hood** » Fri Jun 15, 2001 7:50 am

@Chade Fallstar: Good to see some other finns than Locke and myself! And you see to be an oldtimer

Hyvää kesää!

Chade Fallstar · Post by **Chade Fallstar** » Fri Jun 15, 2001 2:22 pm

BTW. This has nothing to do with the thread

btw2. Sorry 'bout me bad english

To Robin_the_dude:

Once upon a time, in a bizarre universe also called 'The Internet' there was a messageboard ...

Seriously, there was one guy who called himself 'Miekkamies', who I think, was finnisg also.

It's strange how different kind of people are intrested is Baldur's Gate. There was a poll here (a long time ago) about nationalities etc. Mostly people in europe in ages between 15-50 were writing here, even some professors who only had time to play after they've put their children to sleep ...

and for the last thing, niin ... hyvää kesää! =)

Izgoth · Post by **Izgoth** » Wed Jun 20, 2001 7:47 am

Yeah Im finnish too. Hyvää kesää kaikille suomalaisille!