The Guardians Of The 5th floor

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i inserted the key and then guardians apper

and the hive mother(beholder)is the leader
how do i defeat all of these guardians
they are very powerful
even powerful then Jon Irencus

 

cast chaotic commands first on everyone
if you have some, drink potions of regeneration

summon some diversions if you can (morkainens sword is great, as is a planetar)

take out the marilith first if you can cos it drains levels

find someone to harry the huntress at melee range

ive never found the hive mother to be much of a problem cos its not a machine gun like normal beholders (it casts spells slowly rather than fire beholder rays in quick succession), but you might want to take it out after the marilith cos it can get a little annoying

take down the drow kensai (xen wai toh???) *remember to dispel its blade barrier protection first cos it really hurts*

leave the priest and the nymph thing till last

thats how i did it anyway

 

I sent two of my best fighters to take out the Marileth and two more fighters two kill the nymph, cause she can be a real pain in the ass. Had my mages use their wands of spellstriking to take away protectiones on the two I mentioned above.

I also summoned alot of creatures(planetar,djinni etc.) to keep that drow and the priest busy while I took care of everything on one side of the plate.

So after killing the first two there really wasn't more to it than just to hit the remaining fiends with everything I've got.

 

Traps, dragon, Traps.

(Methinks I'm about to get spammed... but it does say 'turn the wheel again to release the guardians,' so you *know* they're coming.)

 

I tried a few skull traps (all that I had memorized). They didn't fire when the guardians showed up. They only went off when my elementals approached. Naturally this pissed off my elementals and they came back to hunt me. As though the fight was not hard enough.

Incidentally, I found this to be much harder than Demogorgon (admittedly I did not go about it in the best way). I lost four people to the Guardians, and only one to Demogorgon.

Of course, having Dragon's Breath for the Demogorgon fight may have made quite a bit of difference.

 

Not skull traps. Spike traps. 20d6 a pop.

 

Skulltraps give 20d6 damage as well, when you're level 20. Go check out this link for info.
http://www.sorcerers.net/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002747.html

And since it only includes SoA info, the skull trap in ToB might be even more powerfull

 

I have no high-level thief, only Imoen, so spike traps were not an option anyway.

IIRC, the skulls didn't really do anything to the monsters anyway. Magic res I suppose, unless they were just too far away. Grr.

[This message has been edited by Capstone (edited September 04, 2001).]