HELP...
I have tried everything I can think of to defeat the chromic demon on the second level, but he still wipes my behind everytime. I realize you can only damage him when he is inthe ice incarnation, but even then he stays in that state long enoug for 1 maybe 2 flame strikes and fire arrows etc. I have tried lowering his resistance to magic and nothing seems to work. Any form of help would be greatly appreciated
Thank in advance,
Toot33
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fool me a third time and I begin to wonder about natural selection.

dont free him until he changes into his ice elemental form, then he will be vulnerable to fire, there is a wand of the heavens around, that should give you plenty of burning :D

btw, he normally stays in his ice incarnation

[This message has been edited by kevlar0101 (edited June 24, 2001).]

He can be hurt in the other incarnations, but he takes more damage from what I saw while he was in the ice form. One thing I found was that if you wait until he is in a form OTHER THAN ice he is too big to move all the way around his cage. When he is in one of the other forms, ie. demon, use one of your characters to lure him around behind the cage (counterclockwise, but I suppose it would work the other way). As you dodge out the other side just stand there and he will try to come after you (kind of like the big golems trying to squeeze through a door way). Keep his attention while everyone else shoots at him with ranged weapons such as bullets +4 and arrows +3. I was able to swat at him with Carsomyr and he couldn't touch me. When he changes to ice you'll have to run away because he can now squeeze through the small space. It shouldn't take too long to take care of him after that. I had Anomen throw down a lot of damage with flame strike when he was in his ice incarnation, but he would never stay long enough to kill him with multiple strikes.

Does any one know roughly how many hit points he has?

At a guess I'd say around 150.

I must have been lucky, cause when I fought him, he was in ice golem form right away and two flame arrows and a flamestrike did him in. I was surprised at how easy he seemed.

Maybe it's far less than 150, but he had an annoying habit of healing himself.

140 HP. Base AC is -5, Saving Throws are all 2, THAC0 of -5, # of attacks 4. It has 95% resistance to slashing, crushing, piercing, and missile damage.

i dont know what all the fuss over him is about; i thought he was pretty easy. He was in slime monster form the entire time i fought him. My group consisted of my paladin with carsomyr at 21st lvl (thaco -10), anomen with crom faeyr (grand mastered) at 27th lvl (thaco -9), valygar dual wielding crazy thaco and ac reducing +4 long sword (forgot name) and celestial fury (thacos -6,-1), and mazzy high mastered with the vorpal sword. I then proceded to kick the crap outta him and he fell in no time

in every form he is weak to a specific element:

demon form : ice
ice elemental : fire
air elemental : poison
green earth elemental : lightning

you should have figured it out from reading the notes ;)

He (like everything else in this game) is still tough as hell to kill as a solo mage. Heh.

Just curious, how the hell can you play the game as a solo mage? I had a hard enough time trying to get 3 mages to do anything remotely effective so booted them all out cept aeire for the romance plot. Lots of summoning? Or lots of blowing s*** up?

Salvage the stuff from baddies you kill, get gold from them, and buy a LOT of potions and scrolls. Boots of Speed with the Sling helps out a lot as well.

i must of just been lucky, cause he was in his air elemental form(and no poison weapons in sight... huh)so i was just taking off 1 hp for every hit(even sarevoks deathbringer assalt only did 100). But he got scared for some reason in the middle of the fight and i had to lock him in one of the rooms so that i could keep up with him and corner him. I think i lost about 20 hp in the whole fight.

Use the celestial fury. I was so disappointed when i stunned him of the second hit and then kept on stunning him. I was expecting something more challenging.

i thought so also

Yes, I did not think he would be that challenging but he was actually hard to kill, though he did not hit me enough. In my dialogue after killing, my monk did about 30 damage to him while everyone was doing 10.

I think he is more of a pain in the *ss than any thing just because of his rediculous weapons resistances.