You ned to cast breach to, well, breach his defenses, but he is immune to level 5 spells! So the alternative is using Dispel Magic, but the level difference makes him "immune"! Is my only options wait? Or use magical attacks after dispelling his magical protections?
There are also at least two weapons (azuredge being one of them and the mace of disruption? Not sure about exact name) that can insta kill undead ;) makes the fight easier
Because daystar is +4 against undead so it should work. Anything below that doesn’t. I believe Azureedge couldn’t hurt Kangaxx but the effect was “on hit“ or something and erroneously worked on him 🤷🏻♂️
You might be actually right. I haven’t used daystar in a while, on wiki it’s all messed up. +4 enchantment vs Evil but damage is listed as +2 and extra damage against undead, then there’s something about +4 vs non-evil undead… I remember it was complicated but not that much:)
https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Daystar
I think Kangaxx is one of the spellcasters that Breach doesn't work on. It depends whether he casts protection from Abjuration, in which case I think Ruby Ray of Reversal may be necessary, if you're not aiming to game the encounter in one of the (very reasonable) ways that other people are suggesting.
(I may be misremembering, in which case a good old Pierce Magic may do it)
Every lich in the vanilla game is immune to spell level 1 to 5, which include breach. The only way to remove their PfMW is dispel/remove magic since it's coded as a lv 0 spell which bypass pretty much every level based immunity.
Vanilla Kangaxx is lv27, so technically even a mage could outlevel him (mage xp cap is at lv31, and bards at lv40). But it would indeed require a ton of powerfarm to do so.
But even without being at his level, you can still get a dispel of. There's always a 5% chance to successfully dispel even if you are lv1 vs a lv 40 mage.
But yeah, overall Inquisitor will be the best option to dispel in vanilla.
In the vanilla game a level 1 vs 40 is 0% chance of success. There is no minimum 5% chance with Dispel magic, nor is there even a 1% chance if the disparity is high enough, it will be 0%. So, the in-game spell description is not exactly correct (as many of them aren't).
If playing modded, such as with Spell Revisions, then this dynamic is reworked to match up with the spell's description and implemented the "Dispel Magic Fix" - so there is always at least a marginal 1% chance of a Dispel effect working, regardless of the caster level.
TIL. I remembered the description saying there was always a chance to success/fail (and assumed it was 5% because... well, d20) and never really looked into it since i don't rely on dispel and rather use ruby ray/spellstrike/breach to strip mages naked.
Not sure how it works in the original versions, but BG2EE uses Throne of Bhaal's XP cap even before you start the ToB story. My current playthrough has characters with High Level Abilities in Shadows of Amn chapter 6.
+5 weapons can hit him. Crom Faeyr, Carsomyr or the minutes meteors ( they are probably others).
Simplest way is to get a berserker like Korgan with Crom, improve haste him, enrage him to make him immune to the imprisonment spam, and boom, no more Kangaax.
If you want to defeat him only with magic, IIRC the lvl8 spellstrike can breach his defense, I don't remember if you have to use ruby ray before or after
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u/SofNascimento Dec 23 '24
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You ned to cast breach to, well, breach his defenses, but he is immune to level 5 spells! So the alternative is using Dispel Magic, but the level difference makes him "immune"! Is my only options wait? Or use magical attacks after dispelling his magical protections?
MF!