Damn, Baldur's Gate: ToSC difficulty level really took a sharp rise on the "werewolf/wolfwere" island, the shipwreck.
After several retries I was able to clear the first three levels of the shipwreck from the "wolfweres", but the fourth one where the boss of theirs is still feels a bit out of my league. So I went back outside to try to level up with random encounters (sleeping until more werewolves arrive, as killing them gives quite high amounts of experience), but even they kick my ass 9 times out of 10. I hate these encounters where you are thrown in the middle of the enemies, the ultrafast werewolves home in to your weak magic users in no time and kill them with one or two critical blows. Sometimes it doesn't take longer than that for them to kill my melee tanks either.
Yeah I got the point that only magic weapons can hurt the werewolves; does this include any weapon with some kind of +1 modifier? Or do they always have to be some specially named ultraweapons with elemental damage etc? I seem to be able to make respectable amount of damage to them, especially with spells, but the problem is that whenever they are able to land a successful blow to me, they make massive amounts of damage, even if I have cast every defensive spell I can think of beforehand.
One thing I don't like about BG is that levelling up seems to happen quite rarely at this point, and when it does, it doesn't really seem to make my characters much more powerful. The fights seem about as hard as before. Was this one of those games where the enemies scale with your level, ie. levelling up does not necessarily make the encounters easier?
Another thing is that the three primary magic users I have (1x cleric and 2x wizard/sorcerer types), 90% of their spells seem pretty useless to me, so I use only like 10% of the spells ever. Maybe I don't really understand the purpose of many spells fully, even after reading their short descriptions.
I dunno, maybe I should try to finish the Durlag's Tower before the Shipwreck? I was unsure which area should be performed first, or does it matter. I chose to take care of the Werewolves' Island/Shipwreck and the Ice Dungeon as they appear to be much smaller than Durlag's Tower.
Post edited August 13, 2013 by timppu
