I just used Aerie with Staff of Rynn. When Kang get's to phase 2, have her cast spell immunity then move her as close to Kang as possible and start hitting him. Then if you want to speed up the process, get someone to cast summon fire elemental just behind Aerie so it's in range to hit him and haste them both.
You're aware the SCS mod makes the fight infinitely harder, yes?? Attaining a high level in a game where the WHOLE OBJECTIVE is to gain power is not cheese.
@@bladesyz as has been told SCS Kangaxx is not the vanilla one that is certainly not designed with HLA in mind. That told I really appreciate how Tactics Mod, that here is not used, makes some low level enemies spawn before the boss himself spawns, those low level enemies trigger the traps so prevent the player to set them effectively on a known spawning point relying on metagame knowledge.
There's quite a lot of cheese in there, to be honest. To begin with, you're a cheesy level, so Kangaxx will not be able to dispel your buffs; and you're using a cheesy number of buffs that covers just about anything Kangaxx can throw at you. Your chosen class "Blade" could be considered cheesy optimal meta because it is one of the few classes that will allow you to level up quickly enough to overcome dispelling (because it is not multiclass) and still allow you to access to all the defensive spells you will need to be overpowered in such fights, as well as being able to equip any item and read any scroll at epic levels. CHEESY AMOUNT OF POT QUAFFING! You have cheesy meta stats that have been rolled to perfection. Your gear has some cheesy elements to it; Flail of Ages and Scarlet Ninja-To are optimal meta for fighting Kangaxx (blunt + elemental damage and extra attack speed). Gear doesn't matter much when you have that many buffs going anyway. The belt of Inertial Barrier is also 50% cheesy. :P There's no point having the difficulty slider at Insanity if Kangaxx can never hit you to apply the amplified damage in the first place. It may as well be at Normal. I would say, however, that I cannot blame you for using such tactics against Kangaxx, as he is one of the cheesiest bosses to have been put in any game, especially with the SCS mod and Insanity difficulty.
Agreed. Next time he should face Kangaxx with a naked lvl1 mage with 3 constitution. That would be the non-cheesy way. Right now? Total power gaming and cheese.
I want to be a demi-lich :\ It looks fun... Trap the soul here and there, the good life. Where can I get a lichdom scroll? Great video man. I got obliterated so many times against him with scs...
Not if you're playing with SCS, he keeps being active, he doesnt see you anymore but he knows somethings up and he tries to dispel/cast area effect spells.
@@shartlover420 Not in the Enhanced edition. in the original, undead were outright unable to see you. Now, in EE, it just renders undead's physical attacks uneffective. The scroll is great against Bodhi and shadows, for example, but pointless against spellcasters.
@@shartlover420 Loaded a chapter 2 start save to test. Went into the little tomb where you find the Daystar. What do you know? You're right. Lich just stands there doing nothing. The description on the scroll now is as I stated above, but it clearly works the way it always did.
The mod SCS actually improves the AI of the enemies you encounter, mages will now cover themselves with layers of protection spells while the the spell Breach has been significantly nerfed. Demi lich Kangaxx actually acts as a high level Lich instead of just spamming imprisonment which BTW, you can easily block with Spell Immunity:Abjuration making the Demi lich harmless against your mage.
How do you get to lv 32 at this point? Re-play the game with a character over and over again? (I'm playing on Mac, and am playing EE, so not sure if I have access to mods)
Late answer to your question. First off, his is playing without any party members which means he'll get all undivided EXP for kills and certain quests. Second off, his is playing a bard, who is the fastest leveling character in the game. He requires pretty much half the amount of EXP for each level compared to a mage.
Well, you get tomes from Baldur's Gate 1 that raise your stats and he used Wisdom as a dump stat, he didn't cheat his rolls really just min-maxed them (although, why the heck would you dump wis instead of cha???)
@@Geion Well... maybe not everyone knows this but you can just put someone else in the front of your party/have them speak to the merchants + affected questgivers. It's one of the few uses for Eldoth! Give him a friends spell and watch him go... (on a shopping spree)!
@@Geion Eh, I suppose it could be but it's nothing different than all the protection spells I'm forever casting on everyone, or the constant haste spells.
@@slavemonkey5063 for a solo money is not a problem, he needs less items then a party and can sell more loot, and he has not to manage a party so char is really not important. But also wis has no use unless you play a cleric or want to play with the wish and limited wish spells. So to dump one or the other is exactly the same if not for RP reasons.
in my solo mage run i just stopped the time and kept blasting him with melf minute meteors while hasted. When the time stop ended he was panicked and running away, probably from the amount of damage he took. It was nice to see mighty demilich so afraid of me LOL.
@@Dan-uf2vh not sure about SCS, but in vanilla he is surely not immune to time stop, If i remember correctly the only other boss immune to TS is Balthazar.
Firstly SCS seems useless. Second, even if you respect no cheese a lot more than any other video, saying no cheese is just a joke (for example: why play spell immunity?). However I admit that it is a beautiful video. THANKS
Soloing BG2 does not necessarily make the game more difficult. In fact, it's a lot harder to keep your party members alive than to solo bosses. Against Kangaxx especially, a solo character can just use a scroll of protection from undead, while a party needs to find ways to prevent Kangaxx from imprisoning the rest of the party.
Actually to solo is harder at the beginning of the game, then becomes easier then playing with a party because the solo character is so over leveled and it becomes again harder at some point of ToB as also with a party you reach high levels and get access to HLA while the solo hits the xp cap, can not improve further and its advantage of being over leveled does no more compensate the disadvantage of fighting alone. I find soloing quite boring and prefer to play small parties of 3-4 people, imho it is the right spot between leveling fast and having number and classes variety at your disposal. Also a 2 people party is really interesting, parties like dual figher->mage (or multi FM) and multi Cleric/Thief level up fast and are very versatile.
This is the worst Kangaxx I've ever seen in my whole life. No Trap Soul spell, and the demilich does physical attacks for the rest of the game. And even the level 3 Dispel Magic can work on him. I don't know what it is. Might be because of the Enhanced Edition.
@@JspoonG that isn't any major quest. Ribalds selection expands post freeing imoen and only then. The +4 is a barbarian sword at that point too, not a staff.
+izdatsumcp It's impossible to do this legitimately at level one, because upon embarking on the Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn campaign, your character is granted 89,000 experience which equates to level 7 for a fighter. I imagine that if you were to attempt this by setting your character to level one with the use of a character editor or console cheats, Kangaxx would simply laugh off your insult and, with one swift motion, liquefy your innards, causing them to expel through your lower orifice.
+izdatsumcp I was wrong. You could, in fact, import a level one character and play without leveling up. I doubt you would be able to make it past the two liches guarding Kangaxx's body parts, however, without being turned inside out and vomiting faecal matter before perishing most foully.
>no cheese >Caps on xp and used console commands for some items that literally could not have been legitimately obtained by this point in SoA Fucking trash
playing EE or the original with the ToB expansion installed sets the xp cap at 8M xp, so no cheese there, and playing solo you get tons of xp from the kills. You can also legitimately go to watcher keep from SoA and loot the items from there, even if Cromwell will not be able to upgrade them, i.e. he can not add the head to the Flail of Ages making it +4. which items he had that can not be obtained in SoA or WK?
in the original game you can, then you can kill him and have a second one, in EE you can still steal it, but then you will not loot it from his corpse, so you can steal it and run away, if you care only about the artifact and are not ready to kill him, but not have 2 rings.
No cheese means no preparation, no bug abuse, and no script glitching. You did all three. What's the point of having a mod to improve AI and difficulty if you go into every fight prepared for what's going to happen?
Because that's how you beat the game? How the fuck do you beat Kangaxx with no preparation? People like you make me laugh. We have a Baldur's Gate badass over here.
solo character, he got all the xp from the kills for himself (the quest one is not affected by the number of the party members). soloing is very easy to get some HLA somewhere in the underdark and a lev 32 character in SoA is not uncommon.
