How do I kill a water queen with a medusa shield?

Micah · #2 April 18th, 2008, 01:13 AM

Just stack attacks, 2x sword of swiftness, horned helm, stone bird and quickness will drop his defense by 2 for each attack, so after the first quickened round of swings he'll have -16 defense skill from the incoming attacks. (Luck might mitigate this somewhat, not sure if a luck'd attack counts for defense penalty). Plus quickness gives you +3 attack skill to boot.

Argitoth · #3 April 18th, 2008, 01:17 AM

Oh shoot... well the problem is that this thing I'm trying to kill has 64 hitpoints and regenerates half of it every battle round, so one or two hits don't do a thing.

Oh oh! How about panic or terror? This water queen has 30 morale. How many panics or terrors will it take to route her?

Micah · #4 April 18th, 2008, 01:20 AM

Then use 2 SCs or hit her with mages....

vfb · #5 April 18th, 2008, 01:23 AM

Or you can forge the Harvest Blade. It is an AOE weapon, so defense is ignored. Don't give it to anything you want to cast spells with, since it auto-berserks you like a lycanthrope amulet.

If the SC is not fire or frost immune and has low HP, you can just whack it with a Fire/Frost brand.

Can you teleport or trapeze a bunch of mages and blast it? Sometimes that's easier.

Edit:

Okay, forget all that stuff. Just give an SC an Eye Shield. When the Queen goes blind, her defense will drop to zero.

Argitoth · #6 April 18th, 2008, 02:05 AM

Did some tests: Poison Golem with two eye shields will die attacking the water queen with medusa shield.

Ironhawk · #7 April 18th, 2008, 02:18 AM

Just use insti-kill. Soul Slay, Disintegrate, Moon Blade. Stuff like that

Argitoth · #8 April 18th, 2008, 02:40 AM

How hard is it to get through 23 magic resistance with 3, 2, or 1 penetration and 4 nature casting charm?

Saxon · #9 April 18th, 2008, 07:32 AM

Argitoth,

Have a good read of the magic resistance section of the manual. There a lot of details that are critical. I learned a lot last night doing just this. I am on the other side of the problem, as I have SC who keep getting knocked out by astral spells like paralyze and, especially enslave mind. I am trying to boost my MR, but knowing how to penetrate it is closely linked.

Rune smasher is not the only item to boost penetration and boosting the levels of the caster is also important. If you have communion capability, you should really explore that, as that can really boost your penetration.

Saxon · #10 April 18th, 2008, 04:04 AM

Auto rout.