Staff of Destruction - Argh!!

[Metathron]

Anyone else pulling their hair out because of this freakishly strong "hero" in the archmage's tower in Arlania? I've tried fighting it twice with a level 8/9 mage and failed, and now with a level 10 warrior and keep losing. The thing is just too freakishly strong, decimating my armies with some kind of chain lightning, and helped along with those gremlin towers.

Is/Was anyone else frustrated with this? Frustrated because I've wasted so much time!:-x:

[Namel]

Leave that alone for while. It is reasonable difficulty after you return from pirate islands.

[Metathron]

Yeah, I'll do that.

I reckon I won't be tackling that Enema kid before level 20 either. ;)

[Zhuangzi]

Yeah it sure is strange that there are a handful of fights in Darion that are much harder than everything else:

Enema kid - this sucks because you have no indication that it will be a hard fight.

Staff of Destruction - at least you can see that it is level 14 so you can tell whether you should go for it. Personally I would leave it alone until after Kordar.

Troops guarding King's Tent - a stack of 70 Horsemen? Yeah, that's doable at level 5. :rolleyes:

[player1]

Troops guarding King's Tent - a stack of 70 Horsemen? Yeah, that's doable at level 5. :rolleyes:

What is worse, is that when you get finally powerful enough to defeat them, you'll realize there is not enough knights or horsemen there to fill up single stack.

[bugmenot]

It's possible to lead the enemy away from the tent, loop back and recuit some horsemen.

I used them a bit in the Freedom Isles, but they didn't fit in too well with my (ranged attackers) army.
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[Metathron]

What is worse, is that when you get finally powerful enough to defeat them, you'll realize there is not enough knights or horsemen there to fill up single stack.

YES! :rolleyes:

[Metathron]

Finally defeated the bleedin' thing with my level 11 warrior. I got a perverse feeling of pleasure every time one of those gremlins slid down into the abyss. :rolleyes:

The 300 experience is quite unimpressive at this point and for such a foe, and the archmage tower offers a pathetic 10 archmages and 16 inquisitors. Gar!

[fld88]

Finally defeated the bleedin' thing with my level 11 warrior. I got a perverse feeling of pleasure every time one of those gremlins slid down into the abyss. :rolleyes:

The 300 experience is quite unimpressive at this point and for such a foe, and the archmage tower offers a pathetic 10 archmages and 16 inquisitors. Gar!

Spoiler Alert

In two different games now I asked for the staff. He refused but both times he game me an Adherent's Staff instead. I wonder if you have to ask for the staff to get that one? Both times I already had one but it will be worth a lot of money when I can upgrade it to the 3rd level.

At 2nd level it is +2 Intellect and I believe it will be +5 at level 3 so I'm going to wait until my Intellect is at 32 then see if I can upgrade the staff so it will bring my Intellect to 35.

[Zhuangzi]

You can use Sacrifice to create a full stack of Horsemen, so really you only need 1 Horseman from the King's tent using the pathfinding exploit. I love Horsemen so I have made this a priority.

Adherent's Staff (which upgrades to Archmage's Staff) is very nice for a mage once it's upgraded. I think it's +4 intellect from memory. In my last game I had two, both of which were equipped when I had Xeona, who can equip two weapons (3 in total including yourself). :cool:

[fld88]

Adherent's Staff (which upgrades to Archmage's Staff) is very nice for a mage once it's upgraded. I think it's +4 intellect from memory. In my last game I had two, both of which were equipped when I had Xeona, who can equip two weapons (3 in total including yourself). :cool:

I didn't know that. I'll have to get a divorce when I get to Demonis because my kids suck.

[corrozu]

Uhh... I just beat this quest at level 9, after I got the dual spell talent thing...

He didn't give me an adherent staff. I asked for the staff of destruction but he was a jerk. :(

I'm still using the training sword...where do I get a better weapon? x-x