Final Battle

Well here's the strategy I used and I beat the deamon in the second try:
1. Don't bother with protective magics BEFORE the battle starts. They'll all be dispelled before you even start fighting.
2. Scan the whole area once with your thief just to see where traps are on the floor. Since you can't remove them, you can at least avoid them. (Traps spring arrows of dispelling).
3. Dispatch the golems when Belhefit teleports to the other sides of the room. You'll have enough time then.
4. Have plenty of the best healing potions on you, plus any of good modifing potions you can find. If you're like me, you had a ton of them by the end of the game anyway, and since you're not going to use them for anything else you might as well drink them all once the battle begins. Especially the ones that boost strength are important.
5. Don't cast healing spells while fighting Belhefit. You'll most likely get disrupted and you will have spent a lot of time on nothing insted of doing some damage.
6. Use the best healing spells when Belhefit is out of sight.
7. ALWAYS have at least 3 people thumping Belhefit and the other two or three healing.
8. Try to wedge in a corner somewhere where there are no traps to dispel the effects of the potions.

Well... That's about it. Worked for me like a charm. Oh yeah, your mage will most likely get killed very fast by the golems, so at least use him to cast something on the golems before he drops.

[This message has been edited by Taluntain (edited November 06, 2000).]

 

I had my mage and thief go invisible after the battle started; I had my cleric and dwarven fighter kill the iron golems. My paladin and ranger used all of the arrows of piercing I had saved from the tower with the archers. Both ranger and paladin would maintain their distance and keep firing (it was easier for the ranger because he had the boots of speed). When I ran out of arrows, one swat did him in... I didn't bother with any buffing potions/spells since I wanted to maintain mobility and invariably ran over a few of those dispelling traps.