A6 - Various questions (spoilers)

[VCH]

1. What treasure does the Fang Clan chief drop? I like cats and don't want to kill him if he doesn't give up something great.

 

2. What method will work to kill the arenae queen? My brain protection spell doesn't stop my fighters from becoming charmed.

 

3. What are the ingredients for knowledge brews? I want to start selling some herbs, but don't know which ones I can part with.

 

4. Who gives the quest to kill Lord Farrar and when does this happen?

 

5. What method will work to kill the Lich in the Eastern Gallery (under the bone shards keep)? Is the fight more difficult than Nicodius the necromancer?

[Lilith]

1) Which Fang Clan chief? There's more than one Fang Clan outpost in the game, and most of them have pretty good loot.

 

2) Attack her with missile weapons and magic. Charm any monsters she summons. This is a very difficult fight.

 

3) Every herb. All of them. Energetic Herbs and Mandrake Root are the rarest, so hold on to at least as many of the other reagents as you have of those two. Healing Herbs are as common as mud, so sell some of those if you need the money.

[VCH]

The fang Clan chief that is in the old slith fortress. He's west of Ft Dranlon. The #1 chief.

[Randomizer]

Originally Posted By: VCH

The fang Clan chief that is in the old slith fortress. He's west of Ft Dranlon. The #1 chief.

He drops some very nice loot, but a tough fight:

Avenger's Ring [6% Armor, 8% Stun Res., +2 Anatomy, +2 Lethal Blow, +2 damage levels in combat]

4. Melanchion gives a quest to kill Lord Farrar near the end of the game, but it's optional. You need to kill 2 of 4 enemies.

5. Fighting that lich is hard because it's a two part battle. It's not worse than Nociduas, just different.

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For part one buff before entering and immediately head south to the pillar. Use a haste group item and head north when it's safe to the northern pillar. For the rest of this fight you can stay there. Avoid melee with the lich and use invulnerable potions for the last attacker on him in a round since it has a nasty missle spell attack.

For part two when you find his sarcophagus, keep your weakest members back on the path. Use spineshield and lots of control foe. Acid spray/shower seems to help too. Invulnerable potion for your lead fighter isn't a bad idea either.

[Fael]

Originally Posted By: VCH

2. What method will work to kill the arenae queen? My brain protection spell doesn't stop my fighters from becoming charmed.

If you're very careful about position, it's possible to use missile weapons to lure most of her escorts out into the hall without activating the queen, allowing you to dispose of them first, then heal up for the big fight. Then use all your buffs, a battle crystal, and a speed scroll or wand, and charge in, ignoring the rest of the escorts and going straight for the queen until she drops. Even then, you may have to repeat a couple times until you get lucky with the charm (make sure to save before going in the final time, so you don't have to re-do the escort sniping every time).

Originally Posted By: VCH

5. What method will work to kill the Lich in the Eastern Gallery (under the bone shards keep)? Is the fight more difficult than Nicodius the necromancer?

On normal, this fight isn't too bad once you figure out the trick. The insta-death ice blast that's your main enemy in this fight doesn't extend past the main platform. You can fight the lich pretty much forever as long as you stay out of range of those ice blasts Fully buff (use Ward of Elements as your ward and Cloak of the Arcane as your cloak, if you have it) and use a speed item (wand or scroll) and a regen item (Scroll of Regeneration or Battle Crystal). The north pylon activates first, so move your party into a square just on the south bridge. You'll be perfectly safe when the north pylon activates in a couple of rounds.

Theoretically, at that point, you could rush over to the north bridge and to escape the south pylon's ice blast. The problem is, by that point your likely to be pinned by summons and spawns, making it impossible to move across the platform. Thus, the challenge of the fight is that you have to kill the lich before the south pylon activates, using only ranged attacks (since you can't get caught on the main platform when the north pylon activates). This is just barely possible on Normal, although I'm not sure how you'd do it on Hard or Torment.

Basically, ignore the summons and spawns and throw everything you have against the lich. Someone should do a Shield Breaker as soon as possible. The priest should be using Repel Spirit and the mage casting Fire Bolts or Lightning Sprays, depending on whether there are nearby summons you want to damage. The fighters probably can't do enough damage with bows, so they should use Disruption Wands until they run out (I hadn't used my Disruption Wands at all until this point and then blew through the entire game's supply in five rounds at three charges per round per fighter). Again, you may have to repeat once or twice if you get unlucky with Terrors.

Then you go upstairs and fight the Lich's Sentinels, which are much, much, much harder...

[Fael]

I should add that I never tested whether you can survive the pylon activation after drinking an Invulnerability Elixer. If so, you could use a couple of those to make the fight really easy, since you could keep your fighters on the main platform fighting the lich hand-to-hand.

[Randomizer]

I think I did try it and the damage will only be survivable with high health, armor, and invulnerable. It's easier to keep moving around especially on hard or torment.

 

The main platform isn't safe because of another lich special.