When do you guys usually deploy your thieves trap setting skills? I have never found them useful exept when i fought bohdi the first time.(cause i kinda assumed after i staked the last vamp down there that shee would appear.)

Thoughts and tips are welcome as usual.

It's a bit of cheese, but you should also have a pretty good idea as to where liches will appear. Hell...if you're playing a decent trap-layer, trap every frickin' thing you can.

well, i would like to have the challenge of liches and dragons, so i don't really want to spoil that experiance of killing a worthy foe(most of the time worthy).

It really isn't for my character(I just started over and am playing a scorcerer) but i would like to know how to use yoshi better than i have been.(those special traps have to be good for something right?)

I usuaully set traps near a door that looks like there is a chance something id going to come charging at you from, then send in someone to lure them out and run straight through the door, and the thing following you usuaully runs right into the trap.

You should have your stronghold trapped to teeth to prevent villains entering :D

Well, i am looking for useful info laksol.(although it does fit the RPG feeling :D)

And that would be a good idea about luring stuff into traps.

You know the place in the Windspear Hills where there's a secret door in a natural-looking hillside, which leads to a golem-full area? I opened the secret door, and set traps all around that little opening. Then I sent Yoshimo in to lure out the Golems, and they were instantly killed as soon as they came through the door.

Another example is that book in the maze below spellhold (where you turn the pages and monsters appear). Kill the first, easy couple of monsters, keep in mind where they appear, and then set traps in that area; the harder enemies will be dead meat as soon as they appear.

Final example: the Twisted Rune. You go through a small corridor, and as soon as you enter the large room at the end, the lich Shangalar appears. Now, if you set traps around the end of that hallway, and send one character out to trigger the lich, he'll follow you across the traps. Ouch. :D

I never thought Yoshimo's special traps were particularly useful, so I just use them as a way to make sure that he has many traps left to set. ^_^

it's fun around dragons

actually, i never had found a secret door in windspear hills.(perhaps that is why they call it a "secret door") I have only fought shanglar(SP?) once and got my ass smeared across the floor. Try try again...

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Yoshimo can set snares and special snares. You can recharge them by clicking on Yoshi's dual class menu and then clicking cancel.

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Snares are really useful for killing anything. (Dragons especially!)

If there is enything i don't use at all the it are traps, if there even effective agaist dragons then i guess i should start to use them! I still think its a bit of a cowards trick though! You can cross youre own traps without engaging them can't u?

Do traps sit there until someone sets them off or do they go away after time? Could you leave an area (an area that autosaves), then come back, and the trap still be there?

Yes, the traps remains even after you left an party required area. But, if you place too many, the game will crash. The best thing is to remove them after you don't need them anymore.

BTW: about the topic, my multi-class mage/thief has a little use of traps. The major exception was the enemy who detect invisibility, like the demon-lords from Underdark.

can you set traps when in stealth mode?

No. When you are hiding in shadows, all you can do is move around. The moment you do anything else, you become visible again.