how do I kill Gauths ?

RuthSwarbrick · Post by **RuthSwarbrick** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:40 am

Am trying to get through the Rift area in the unseeing eye quest and can't get past these things- any suggestions?
thanks

rapier · Post by **rapier** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:47 am

Hmm...Shield of Balduran should do nicely, spell immunity: Necromancy, or waiting till chap 6, for Cloak of Mirorring...

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Vehemence · Post by **Vehemence** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:47 am

Same way you kill beholders. If you have an thief, then your hide in shadows ability can be useful to scout the area. Your mage can then cast area effect spells like deathspell, ice storm and so on.

Summoned monsters work great too with combination of your fighters. Send in the animals and have your fighters storm in as they're distracted.

I'd suggest the magic tactic first though, since Beholders and Gauths can be pretty heavy on the damage they dish out.

Good luck!

Osiris · Post by **Osiris** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:49 am

Rapier is right - Shield of Balduran is easiest, and you can get it early in the game too (if you have the bonus merchants)

rapier · Post by **rapier** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:51 am

It makes Beholders almost too easy, they petriefie themselves in secs, and you just have to hit them once, same thing with Cloak o Mirroring...

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Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:59 am

The only one's to watch out for if you use the Shield of Balduran is the Elder one's they cast imprisonment(I believe this is what it is called)

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Brink · Post by **Brink** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 8:04 am

Yes,the Elder ones do cast Imprisonment(they casted it on Jaheira

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Hazim ibn Gorion · Post by **Hazim ibn Gorion** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 9:38 am

One of my gripes the first time through was that I thought the beholders were way too damn easy to kill, even the elder orbs...and that's without either the shield of balduran or the cloak of mirrors. Whenever I met one, I just sent everyone in guns-a-blazin' but had my two mages both hit him with double magic-missles set up through minor spell sequencers. MM only does about 3 damage on average, but that's six missles for a level 12 caster x2 for 2 casters x2 for the sequencer--a total of 72 average damage. That's a lotta hurt laid down really fast. A couple more hits by your melee folks and you got yourself one dead beholder.

fallout · Post by **fallout** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 10:07 am

After a Chaos spell Gauths get confused and very easy to kill.

The fallen one · Post by **The fallen one** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 11:50 am

Just use a thief to scout out a little and find the nasties and use the spell holy Smite. With this spell you can cast it and they will not come running. Wear then down to near death. Then use something like fireball. This is what I did takes a long time but what can you do if you go there being low level. Now I have the cloak just need to stand there they kill them self. So much for a smart creature.

Xo Martel · Post by **Xo Martel** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 2:38 pm

Well, if you don't have the luxury of those items.
you can try my way.

i summoned animals/monsters. put them in front of you, and have yoshimo scout the area a bit. then let it agro to gauths.

and have your party ready with range attack.

works well for me. GL

Locke Da'averan · Post by **Locke Da'averan** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 6:24 pm

My tactic is simply this: if you encounter one beholder, just put every melee character beating it, those guys drop in no time. But if you encounter more like in the beholder dungeon (underdark)(You need aerie and Imoen + haste) find out where the beholder's are, go almost to a visual range and shoot simultaneuosly two fireballs, they don't die but if you're fast you can back away and do it again, and after 4 fireballs they're pretty cooked up, just finish them with MM and with your fighters.

rekker · Post by **rekker** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:02 pm

Gauths basically use two types of offensive spells: cause serious wounds and lightning. Use protection from lightning and magic immunity: necromancy on a fast, hard hitting character, buff him up and haste him, and send him in. Won't take long.

Try softening up clumps of gauths using fireball, area effect spells, or sending waves of summoned skeletons/monsters. Haste the creatures you summon; that helps a ton as well.

The free action spell helps stop paralysis. Just make sure you put that on someone AFTER you haste them, or the haste won't take effect.

rekker · Post by **rekker** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:07 pm

I've also found that gauths are quite susceptible to the "hold monster" spell, since it has an area effect.

Vehemence · Post by **Vehemence** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 9:19 pm

Also, a spell sequencer loaded with three Flame Arrow Spells is absolutely devastating!

It's one of my favourites!

Giles the Sorcerer · Post by **Giles the Sorcerer** » Thu Feb 15, 2001 12:21 am

or a sequencer with skull trap (doesn't have a damage max like FBall) does nice things to big groups.

samcu · Post by **samcu** » Wed Mar 21, 2001 12:46 am

It was one of my first quest and all I needed was stealth Yoshimo to find out where they were and had Jaheira cast summon fire elementals. They really kick the beholder's ar$es.

Loredweller · Post by **Loredweller** » Wed Mar 21, 2001 3:50 am

Beholders' (elder) spells:
Voclise, True Sigth, Spell Turning, Maze, Imprisonment, Power Word Kill. +gaze...
Now you know what must you be protected from

HTH,
L.