energy drain

[jdm_ian]

my characters all suffering energy drain, how do i recover

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Cast a divine spell like Lesser Restoration (or better) on the character. Or visit a temple shop.

[wendigo211]

If you want to prevent energy drain in the future, you can cast the 4th level cleric/druid spell Negative Plane Protection. The Undead Hunter (Paladin Kit) has immunity to Level Drain as does the Berserker and Barbarian while under the effects of Rage.

It's a good idea to make sure, at the very least, your Cleric/Druid is protected from energy drain whenever you fight enemies with the ability.

[red255]

To protect against energy drain you get the Improved Mace of Disruption +5 and the Amulet of Power. both items protect against level drain.

Minsc with a Mace of disruption +5 and dunno chaotic commands should be able to reek havoc against level draining enemies.

[jdm_ian]

thanks for the tips guys

[Termagant]

During the beginning, it might be hard to bolster your party up sufficiently against multiple enemies with level drain. Those shadow fiends or vampires are pretty annoying. A tactic that works pretty good, and also against other enemies later in the game: summon a lot of creatures. Both clerical and magical spells have the optoins. They make great cannon fodder

[Profile Name]

Beserker rage also shields from level drain i think but not stat damage

[wendigo211]

ATM I don't think anything is shielding from stat damage, including Negative Plane Protection, which IIRC should. If that stat damage is from a disease or poison, then immunity to those effects will help. But somehting like a Shadow's strength damage or an Ilithid's intelligence damage is going through everything (even summoned skeletons)..

If you can negate the attack (e.g. Protection from Magical Weapons), that should stop the on hit effect from being applied, but Stoneskin or Mirror Image will still let on hit effects get through.

[theworld]

Originally posted by wendigo211:

Ilithid's intelligence damage is going through everything (even summoned skeletons)..

It used to.

IIRC you can't cheese so much in BG2EE with Improved Haste -> Shapeshift (Mind Flayer) -> Timestop guaranteed hits like you could in vanilla. IIRC you could cheese the "Oneshot Assassin" in vanilla, but in EE you can't.

[GrandMajora]

The only way I know to get rid of it is with priest spells. Either have your cleric cast Restoration type effects, or pay the temple to do it for you. I think it's like 700 gold for a Greater Restoration.

Outside of that, some items and spells have been known to protect against energy drain. Or you can make an Undead Slayer (Paladin kit) who are flat out immune to Level Drain.

[red255]

level drain can be removed with a lesser restoration scroll. you could get vhalior's helm, equip the restoration scroll, use the helm, then have your copy cast the scroll on the target. also useful for making your simularcrum be your level.

but yeah lesser restoration cast from your priest is best, or using a temple in the worst case scenario.

temple costs money.

I can't recall if its cheaper to kill off party members who get level drained and ressurect them at a temple instead.