I finally won Eclipse, after some spectacularly unsuccesfull attempts (What - immune to ADHW? Immune to Sunfire? What? What? Geez, how did Edwin/Jaheira/Jan die SO FAST? Crap, they're immune to time stop!). What an awesome piece of fight design. You really HAVE TO understand spell protections and their removal unless you just follow someone else's walk through.
Up untill now, I've been fairly clueless about spell protection, beyond the really simple stuff using skins & traps, SI-conjure for the puller in the Bodhi fight, using Breach & bugs on mages, etc.
This fight requires you to really buff up with layered protections, planned countermeasures and some really well thought out plans for stripping the other side's protections. So, it took me a bunch of tries, but with insane levels of spell protections on the mages (Seven rounds of combat buffs, on top of the basic skins, spell trap, etc.), and suitable protection removals up my sleeves, I was able to do it with one casualty - and that due to my inattention on Jaheira's hardiness, which, I think, ran out :unsure:
Rats, bugs and LOADS of spell protections = TEH WIN11111
Anyway, that's all. I just wanted to make a thank-you to Wes and all his little elves for such a cool piece of fight design which also doubles as a GREAT lesson on spell protections.
Happy adventuring to you all!