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Ok, jokes 'bout opening advices aside (but it really rocks!) just a note on the Chosen of Cyric encounter.
First of all, I've played it some time ago, so I don't remember clearly who did what, please excuse me if my feedback isn't as detailed as it should be..
Anyway. I've read in the readme that the CoC encounter would fit for a fairly experienced 6 char party, so I decided to wait 'till the very end of the game (read: already done all the sidequests, main plot was the only thing left) to defeat Bodhi. Did that with my 6 char party: main pc (blade), Imoen, Aerie, Minsc, Keldorn, Jaheira. First thing, please note that the CoC encounter requires a 6 char party but if the pc is engaged in a romance, after defeating Bodhi the party's down to 5 (in my game, Aerie's the one who got vampirized). Leaving the graveyard district triggered the CoC encounter. The opening dialogue was just great. No other words could describe it. As already said, I too would love to see other encounters with such good dialogues and use of abilities - both of the main pc and of the party members.
I decided to go for the battle, and it was a great error. I don't remember the levels of my party, but all of them were terribly close to the
SoA xp cap (and someone even broke it already, if I remember it well). I tried the encounter several times, but everytime the thief killed Imoen (if not invisible) or Minsc with only one succesfull backstab, disregarding Keldorn's True Sight (which fires once per round, so the thief had all the time to hide and backstab). Aside from that, and down to a 4 char party (Aerie out 'cause of main plot, one chunked), after a quick buff casting I found myself outnumbered and greatly overpowered. I think that the three main troubling foes were the female caster, the chosen and the thief (he hits hard).. In the end I couldn't win the fight once, playing both fair or cheesing.
Of course I know I didn't have the best party composition, as my only healer got kidnapped, and I think it could have cut in half my party's power, and I know too that it's quite a poor feedback of the encounter.
In the end, I found them to be too hard to hit and to be too hard hitters (backstabbing thief on top, killing 80hp characters in one hit).
Hope it will help. Obviously enough I have the CoC component installed on my current install too, so I will give more detailed feedback as soon as I'll fight them again.
Edited by kthxbye, 20 February 2009 - 02:33 AM.