Defeating Kangaxx the demi-leach easily

obadiah · Post by **obadiah** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:12 pm

I was surprised to find that Kangaxx can be easily defeated.
All I had to do was to first of all get invisibility potions for all of my characters, so when they reentered his crypt (afer I had defeated him as a leach, and he changed into the demi - leach, at which point I had quickly fled) he wouldn't automaticaly imprisson them. Then, when safely in his crypt, and in the far NE corner, I had my Cleric Anomen summon an Aerial servant. But before I sent him to fight, I cast a protection from Magic scroll on him.
At this point, I only had to sit back and watch as the Aerial servant slowly but surely repelled all of Kangaxx's spells and kept hitting him (about 75 hit points worth) till he was dead. Works great!

CopperWater · Post by **CopperWater** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:37 pm

With so many boads about this subject already, did you have to make your own?

obadiah · Post by **obadiah** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:50 pm

Sorry, I'm a new member who didn't take the time I should have to read enough of the past posts. It was a case of getting so excited about beating a part of the game I didn't think I could (not having read up on the easy ways of doing it) that I figured others needed to be informed of this incredible discovery - Hah, don't I look foolish!
Any way of deleting my original post, or do I need to suffer through having all other members thinking "Oh, no, not another one"

Thrifalas · Post by **Thrifalas** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:02 pm

1: It's Lich.
2: Protection from Magic works on every character, using it on an aerial servant... Well. That's the easiest way of killing Kangaxx (except protection from Abjuration) that I'm aware of.
3: You used Anomen?

bipbap · Post by **bipbap** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:45 am

I couldn't get this to work at all. It wouldn't let me cast Protection from Magic on an Aerial Servant because its considered invisible. And that protection spell didn't prevent anyone from being Imprisoned. Does memorizing that spell instead of using it from the scroll weaken it somehow?

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:50 am

You can't memorise those types of 'Protection spells'. Are you sure you have the right scroll?

JackOfClubs · Post by **JackOfClubs** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:20 pm

I'm guessing he used Protection from Magic Energy by mistake.

@Obadiah: I'm surprised the invisibility worked. Liches typically see through invisibility as an inate ability so I think you may just have gotten lucky. In general, a better tactic is to cast protection from undead on all characters except your main melee fighter. Cast the protection from magic on that character and you should be home free. (The reason you can't cast Prot from Undead on the final character is that Kangaxx has a script that doesn't allow him to die until he gives a final speech and he won't give the speech if he can't see your characters. Prot from Magic doesn't make the character invisible to undead the way the other scroll does.)

Welcome to the boards.

bipbap · Post by **bipbap** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:32 pm

Oops, you are right. I used Protection from Magical Energy, not Protection from Magic. The description says 100% protection from magic based attacks, so I thought that was the one. My apologies.

obadiah · Post by **obadiah** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:08 pm

that's kind of odd that the lich can see invisible characters.
I actually ran this invisible / protect from magic / aerial servant trick twice, and both times the invisibility seemed to work great. In fact, one time the lich turned yellow and ran away from my protected character and protected Aerial servant, and he ran right into the midst of my invisible characters, but still ignored my guys. Then, my thief, who was actually hiding in shadows (as opposed to having taken a potion) came out of the shadows and the lich imediately imprissoned him, but still ignored my other characters.

By the way, thanks for the welcome. It's good to be on and talking to others who appreciate this great game.

Also, while I'm thinking about it, how does Neverwinter Nights compare to BG 2? They say you can export your main character. Is it worth it? Or should I try BG 2 again with different goals in mind.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:52 am

Also, while I'm thinking about it, how does Neverwinter Nights compare to BG 2? They say you can export your main character. Is it worth it? Or should I try BG 2 again with different goals in mind.

I think that was Bioware's initial idea, but then they thought that you ended with such a high-level character that would have to be pruned all the way back to level 1, so that you would lose most of what made that character. So the idea was discarded.
That doesn't mean that you couldn't just make a charcter with the same name and class in NWN (and get the portrait off the Net) and come up with something similar.

NWN isn't as good as BGII in terms of it's storylines and such, but is still quite good. Good graphics, new classes and the ability to cretae/download new modules for the game extending it's playability.

JackOfClubs · Post by **JackOfClubs** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:29 pm

[QUOTE=obadiah]that's kind of odd that the lich can see invisible characters.
I actually ran this invisible / protect from magic / aerial servant trick twice, and both times the invisibility seemed to work great. In fact, one time the lich turned yellow and ran away from my protected character and protected Aerial servant, and he ran right into the midst of my invisible characters, but still ignored my guys. Then, my thief, who was actually hiding in shadows (as opposed to having taken a potion) came out of the shadows and the lich imediately imprissoned him, but still ignored my other characters.[/QUOTE]Hmm. Maybe Kangaxx is an exception then. I've had several tactics fail when liches saw my invisible character. Was he in demi-lich form at the time? It might be a scripting error that drops his immunity to invisibility when he changes. Which would be kind of ironic...

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:40 pm

I'm surprised if he was in the 'Morale Failure' state that he was able to react to anything like that (imprisonment).

obadiah · Post by **obadiah** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:58 pm

Actually, about the same time that my thief became visible, the lich turned back to his red attack stage, and quickly banished him. He didn't seem to notice my other invisible players though who were all very near him when he imprissoned my thief.
I suppose that it could have been a lucky break his not seeing them when they were invisible, but if you could see how many times I have to reload my games, you wouldn't put much faith in my luck.