Farnirras, the lich *Spoilers*

[Drask]

Thanks to Ilthuliak's cave being opened up, he is now available in the lonely barrow. Assuming you have completed the other kills (everything other than the castle of knives). Some sick gear drops off of him too.

Including a + 5 flail! Finally, flail users have a named upgrade available to them. Also, + 5 heavy crossbow, +8 mental pefection wizard hat, + 5 greataxe, +5 dueling sword, and a +4 shortspear.

He's a pretty tough fight, as one would expect. Whole party got stunned for about a minute while the lich beat us up with wail of the banshee, etc. So, be prepared!

[Drask]

Sorry, I updated the title with a spoiler tag and should have posted it in the spoilers section. I was excited to see a flail.

[Shadenuat]

I am missing 2 monsters. Any idea which ones might be really hard to find? Killed everything up to dragon and scouted the map + finished locations which were bugged before.

I wonder if I have to scout whole map again with now higher Perception because some locations (like Three Pines Island) literally pop only if you walk on top of them. I did "scout lands" projects as well. Or maybe some monsters are futher than Chapter V-VI?

[living_one]

In the east, right at the edge of Pitax, there's as named location with a Mysterious Shrine *forgot the name, Giggling Glade maybe? )

If you scout the map there's a group of monsters in the eastern part.

[Shadenuat]

Turns out was some sort of a bug, I killed pretty much exact monster amount on my 2d playthrough and got to the lich.

This was the most disappointing fight in the whole game. 15th level Nok-Nok killed him in like 2-3 rounds - with +2 kukris.

They just must add Time Stop/Sequencers/Mantles/Protections to this game, this is not funny.

Or maybe fix sneak attack/flanking etc.

[dfedwards2001]

Tried this fight at lvl 15 by dimension dooring past the barrier. Valerie didn't make it past which was a bit of a bummer.

Lich dropped cloudkill which was fine but he then followed up with four successive greater shouts interspersed with wail of the banshee. Greater shout hit the whole team so I spent the whole fight stun-locked.

Amusingly, the lich just couldn't kill my ring of evasion wearing MC paladin with his spells. I think I may have actually run him out as he had to resort to melee attacks. Unfortunately the damage from greater shout was enough that he finally succumbed with about 15 seconds of stun remaining.

I'll come back when I legitimately drop the barrier.

[Alan Sylver]

Kind of a thread-necro, but I just killed the lich in about 6 seconds and figured this would be worth sharing. His first spell seems to be Seamantle, and once he threw that down I wasn't able to hit him at all (main damage dealer has +35 AB, his armor class is 47 flat-footed and 55 normal, if I read this correctly - without Seamantle!). So I figured I had to be fast about it.

The way: you can cast True Strike after opening the door, but before talking with the Lich. There is a small cutscene afterwards, which is why I didn't even try True Strike on my first attempt. But it isn't long enough to completely use up the 9 seconds. So throw True Strike on as many characters as possible, with wands and UMD if necessary, and if you have characters that can do a lot of damage (mine was a shapeshifted dragon with 5d6 sneak attack) you can kill him before he even finishes his first spell.

I was level 16 and this was on Hard.

[DesignerDave]

Originally posted by Drask:

Thanks to Ilthuliak's cave being opened up, he is now available in the lonely barrow. Assuming you have completed the other kills (everything other than the castle of knives).

But where is the phylactery?!?!?

[Mr. Hanky]

Originally posted by DesignerDave:

Originally posted by Drask:

Thanks to Ilthuliak's cave being opened up, he is now available in the lonely barrow. Assuming you have completed the other kills (everything other than the castle of knives).

But where is the phylactery?!?!?

This. There doesn't seem to be one. Am I wrong?

[Maurog]

For the record, there is a phylactery. If you befriend Vordakai and show him the "magical prison key" that counts the monsters, he will immediately recognize it as a fellow lich's phylactery and tell you so. You had the phylactery all along...