Wise wind

Valmont · Post by **Valmont** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:52 am

Could anyone give me a few pointers on how to defeat the Wise Wind? Im a lvl 10 wizard, with Deek as my henchman and a little dragon as familiar. Ive recruited the other two npcs as well for this bit.

Everytime I get the wind to "badly wounded", it teleports away, and fully heals again. Very frustrating.

Fiberfar · Post by **Fiberfar** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:09 am

You don't happen do hav a couple of Isac's Greater Missilestorm?
That would make the Wind pretty dead.

Admo · Post by **Admo** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:20 am

I must admit that fight was annoying, and I don't really know how I won in the end. It just seems that at one point it stopped teleporting away. But it did have a certain Monty Python feel to it, running after it every time it teleported!

Zel Greywords · Post by **Zel Greywords** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:06 am

Just looked at the specs... the Wise Wind can teleport at the end of every combat round, and he can do this as often as he wants to (no spell ability but a script).The probability for it is 50:50, unaffected by its current damage, meaning the wind won't deliberately teleport away even when near death - it's pure luck.

It has only 130 hitpoints, but the actual problem lies somewhere else... namely that it is unusually well-equipped with healing spells:
- 4 'minor' healings
- 2 'serious' healings
- 1 'critical' healing
- 2 'full' healings
Now, while it's reasonable to just ignore the 'minor' spells, the rest of them still is annyoing. Yet, note that this is the worst-case scenario, i.e. know that the NWN critters do not always heal themselves even if they can.

Now, while I see a few elemental resistances, they aren't much of a problem - meaning if a spellcaster justs hits it hard enough and fast enough, it will crumble. Judging from what I see, a GreaterMissileStorm (especially maximized) sounds like a sure-hit-kill...

-Zel

Valmont · Post by **Valmont** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:16 am

Uhm, yeah... A few misslestorms would probably do it in, but there's the minor detail that i'm only lvl10 (or was that 11? no matter). Ive only got 1 spell in that level, let alone that I can maximise the spell...
I think I'll just have to try and throw some other magics at it... Thanks anyway!

The Great Hairy · Post by **The Great Hairy** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:13 pm

Greater Missile Storm, Lesser Missile Storm, Magic Missile. Melf's Acid Arrow also works, as it is damage over a series of turns.

The best way to handle it (IMO) is make sure you have a screen of summons to distract the wind and then hit it with direct damage spells. You can also knock the difficulty level down a notch and hit it with area effect spells if you get really stuck.

Cheers,
TGHO

Valmont · Post by **Valmont** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:36 am

Just so you know, them missle storms really hit the spot. Well, they and a few empowered magic missles...

Thanks everyone!