Shadowy Figure, Did you kill?

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So this guy caught me by surprise.. easily one of the cheapest and most annoying enemies in SoD that had me resetting the encounter over and over again.
Killing this guy should grant an achievement or something considering how broken and difficult the little SoB is to kill.

I'm curious as to how many people killed him and how they did it.
Lemme know below.

For me I got screwed out of spells so my mage was near useless.
This enemy will constantly spam stealth backstabs like a ♥♥♥♥♥.. (he says while his current main is a shadowdancer.. shush, don't you dare -.- lol)

Anyway he will never be visible long enough to land any physical or ranged attacks on (least that was my experience)
He has healing potions and will always focus on the weakest member of my team which was my mage for me.
Oh and despite the no magic rule on the map I saw him on multiple occasions go into a casting animation, cheating little swine.

Eventually I bought a bunch of detect invisibility scrolls and tried using them but.. no no, he says F U! there are constantly just re-stealth's shortly after being revealed.
So revealing and ganking him also doesn't work >.<

Finally I found a strategy that worked for me though.
Magic is a no no but the scrolls of detect invisibility worked so I figured i'd give wands a try.
Eureka!! Wands are not effected by the magic block, wonderful.
But I only have Dynaheir in the party.. and I need her to keep casting detect invisibility scrolls to keep revealing this guy.
This left me with one option.. Wand of the Heavens and thank Bhaal I had 3 of them and coincidentally 3 Clerics in my party as well (Jaheira, Viconia and Glint)

So I had my strategy, Dynaheir will spam detect scrolls and the 3 clerics will nuke this mother!! into oblivion.
Suffice to say this is easily one of the most satisfying kills i've gotten in this game.
I was damn near close to screaming DIE YOU SON OF A!!! at my screen when he fell xD

I try to play a good Bhaalspawn who doesn't give into his murderous lineage but oh man did I fail with this guy, I hope he burns in the 9 hells!! lmfao

So what was your story with this guy, lemme know how/if you dealt with him and how satisfying it was to murder him XD

[wendigo211]

Is this the no-magic zone fight? Everyone lobs a Potion of Explosions/Oil of Fiery Burning in his general vicinity and that's it. I used a similar strategy solo, but with a lot of running in circles as well since you don't really have the combined fire of a party.

That said, I'm not usually in favor of nerfs, but this particular fight needs them. Particularly on the higher difficulty levels, since the no-magic zone takes away a lot of player tools to deal with the encounter.

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Yeah the no magic zone random encounter ^^

I never keep those potions around, never really used them so always sold them lol

I dunno if i'd nerf this guy though, he does run away after a few of his friends die so I assume the fight was designed with that particular scenario in mind which is why you get a nice reward if you do manage to kill him.