Hello all, I humbly come before you on this forum because I've recently downloaded the Solaufein mod (yes I know the game is 8 years old)... anyway, I'm enjoying the character, both his dialogue and his abilities, but I'm having a little trouble with the fights the mod introduces.
Let's see... I'm currently doing the Umar Hills quest (at the end of it, in fact). I drop the shadow dragon no problem, then it's out to the altar. Sola steals the spotlight and after a banter with the Shade Lord in which the rest of my party feel like extras on a movie set, combat starts. Now the Shade Lord casts some... interesting protections on himself and zaps me with things like Finger of Death and level drain, I figure OK, if that's how you want to play it. Then a so-called Revenge Spider pops up, webs the area, and makes a beeline for Imoen whom it kills in one hit. While she was blurred and stoneskinned.
I manage to get through the rest of the fight somehow, but now two of my characters are dead and I haven't got any resurrection spells memorized, and also forgot the res rod. So I rest, but as soon as we wake up Sola tells me there's more revenge spiders on the way, and sure enough *pop* there they are before I've even managed to raise poor Immy. Cue more webbing and str-drain attacks. Reload time. In the end, the solution for beating them was as cheesy as the encounter itself, as I suspected: Since they all make a beeline for Imoen and ignore all other party members, have her run around with imp. haste while everyone else plays target practice with the spiders. Mission accomplished.
I mean no offense to the creator, as I do enjoy Sola's character and a lot of work has obviously been put into him, but I don't find particular pleasure or satisfaction in facing overpowered, cheating enemies over and over until I can figure out some obscure way that allows me to beat them. And from what I've heard, it gets worse - is this true? And is there any way to keep Solaufein while getting rid of the cheesy fights, like with Ascension's optional components? Thanks in advance.