How on god's green earth do you defeat "Josephina"..... nothing works at all, she's seemingly invulnerable to absolutely everything, fire, lightning, poison, freezing, all other magical effects (eg polymorph) and both ranged and melee physical damage..... that's when you can even get near her in the microsecond gaps between the infinite number of dreadknights she summons - and covering the entire floor with hellspikes so you can barely even move without insta-death!

I can find two out of the three elven artifacts without fighting her..... they are lying on the floor just behind her. Use a shadow potion, grab 'em, use a second shadow, then run..... but where's the third?

Josephina has it doesn't she? Great that, seeing as she's impossible and all!

Maybe Raze had better put up trustable links to the save / item editors he's mentioned previously, seeing as there are no cheat codes for DD. I think armour that gives +10,000,000,000 HPs is in order. Funny how the games that need them most never have cheat codes built in.

You don't need cheats. She's easily beaten.

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All you need to do is get beside her as soon as possible after her prattling, then beat on her with melee attacks. The point is to interrupt her spell casting. It really is that simple.

Limited on my options there too.....
It's taking a long time now for each next level to come along..... and most of the wildness areas are now cleared of XP making monster fodder.
I haven't got either the "Withering Curse", "Survivor's Curse", "Stun", nor "Aura of Guarding" skills! But I do have a few weapons imbued with "Stun". So I'll try those. I'll resist the cheats to the very last!

And "Jospehina" is considered by some to be the game's hardest NPC? A bit odd considering she's just a mid-ranking Black Ring expendable. You'd think this would be left to the end boss! Mind you, I've found NPC strengths somewhat unbalanced throughout the entire game myself, you can either mow down 100's of them without even losing 1 HP, or end up having to spam 30 restoration potions in a toe-to-toe brawl, against some lone yoyo with 10,000HP! :)

PS/ I'm finding the game seems to be "closing down" on me, by that I mean I'm getting to a point where I just can't make further progress.....
1) "Dol Prynden"..... or whatever it's called..... the cavern that's supposed to be accessed from the Dwarven Halls. Can't find any way of getting in there, the gold river seems to totally block off all access. How do I get in?
2) There's lots of unexplored areas in the Dark Forest map I cannot get to due to impassable terrain like swamps, cliffs etc - is this intentional? The Rivertown map was 100% revealable in contrast.
3) Mardaneus won't unlock his door and come out.... even though I've cleared out all the orcs invading Aleroth. Another problem? Or am I meant to do something else as well?

Edit - well, trying the non-cheating advice has not even gotten me 0.00001% toward beating her!
Looks like's there's no option left....
That save editor just redistributes skill and attribute points..... it's not really a *cheat* util is it now?
That item editor does not even work at all. It crashes at "loading items blah blah blah 83%"
In the end I had to download and use Cheat Engine, luckily I was able to give myself infinite HPs with that - it still took quarter an hour to whittle Josephina down though, and over a dozen restortation potions to keep my SPs up!

I'm still stuck trying to get Mardaenus to come out of hiding.....

Corinna is toast. She mussed up her demon summoning and it fried her up a treat! :D So she's out as a supply of spellbooks! I've not seen Mpenzak have any yet.... I've had more success finding them in the inventories of minor characters, like guards etc, they somethimes have very high value items - like charms and spell books - and will sell them!

Yes, burning wall is damn good! Even at Lvl 2 it's impressive!

Thanks to that site you pointed me to I got the Dwarven caves area done! I found a map that was misleading, one that was making it look like you had to cross the river..... when you didn't!

Who decided the area was *too* large? You can *never* have too much scenery! Boy, some of you ex-collegues on DD had some damned odd design ideas!!!!!

Lanalors house? Thanks Raze. That I would *never* have thought of in a million!

Good job I kept the editor..... I'll try it again.....