How the heck are you supposed to kill:
clay golems;
liches;
dragons;
anything that can eat you for a snack;
with a solo assassin? Sure you might be able to backstab every other enemy in the game, but what about the big stuff? Are you just supposed to avoid them? Poison and backstabbing might work against SOME baddies, but then what?

[ July 10, 2003, 10:54: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

Use a club or a staff on the golems.

On the liches you should use the Daystar, and use the Sunray ability. Pr. from Magic scroll is always needed...

Ultimately, you'll get UAI as your first HLA, which will open the game up to you for a number of things. Vhailor's helm to allow a simmie and preserve scrolls, time stop from those scrolls for free whacking purposes, improved mace of disruption for lich insta-kill abilities, Staff of the Magi for random invisibility, spell trapping, etc., the list is endless with UAI.

Clay golems are easy even without waiting for UAI, as your guy can use a quarterstaff at the very least. Early on, buy the staff of Rhynn, as it's +4 (pretty huge benefit in the early part of the game). I think you can use clubs as well. If you have the items mod, you can make a club that conveys grand mastery on your guy (which is pretty nice for a back-stabbing assassin that normally can only take one proficiency in anything).

Assassin also have traps, and poisoning abilities. And the two can be combined. (You can poison your traps) It is effective against liches, ANY kind of golems and ANY kind of dragons. The dragons die immediately from 3-4 poisoned traps.

But setting traps around a "cyan" dragon is kinda cheesy IMHO. You should go right for him :D

That is intresting, that the trap is not activated against cyan characters, only red ones... But the fireball hurts everybody...

By the way if a weak assassin spots a dragon, wants to kill it, why she/he should not set traps around the battlefield?

When i was playing assassin, i checked the areas from the shadow usualy, and when i am spotted a greater monster, i placed some traps...after my sneak attack i ran to my traps and the monsters died there. If not, the trap (poisoned) slowed them down, and it was enough for me to hide in the shadow again... This is a normal behavior of an assassin, isn't it? Backstab, poison, traps...

But Dragons are supposed to be smart creatures. Wouldn't you mind if someone you haven't seen before strted setting several traps around you?

NO jokes about poisoning traps?!?!?! i wouldnt have ever thought of that......does the poison still operate within the time of thief's ability? Sorta like since the poison ability lasts (on the assassin) only 24 secs, then the poison on the traps are active for only 24 seconds?

thats an intresting question. i hope it doesnt because some creatures take forever to follow you.

The speed is important, as i saw. The poison signal must be there when you set the trap, and when the monster activate it... In case of 3-4 trap it takes 2x24 sec.

If you feel cheesy just set the trap out of the sight of the dragon. By the way mage is an intelligent person too, but can't detect traps without spell...

A dragon is TALL. It can see in the dark (I think). Therefore, wouldn't it make sense if he gets suspecious if he sees you, wherever you are (you have to be somewhere in his lair) kneeling down and setting a trap? I mean, if I were a dragon I would just squash the guy.

Use everything your assasin has; the traps, poison, hiding ability. I can't see an assasin going head to head with a dragon. He'd be more likely to hide, then attack, then run back and repeat. Going head to head is more for a fighter or Paladin, IMO. Good luck, none-the-less. :)