I don't have the points in fire for fireballs, nor in frost for the shield/barrier. I don't have the pet dragon either since I opted for the ring. My firebolts do VERY limited damage and I'm already busy trying to avoid his poison attacks.

Edit: I have already used the respec option, hence why I'm fully melee focussed.

I'm sure that if you put countless of hours into it practicing to become the perfect melee/archer warrior (and study the movement patterns of the final boss very closely), you can defeat the final boss and the pre-final boss without magic, but you just cranked up the difficulty of your game from whatever it was to impossible.

If worst comes to worst, grind 2 levels and get 10 points in ice magic at least and get all the spells you can get with that.

2 high level spells in Ice magic reduced the difficulty of the last boss from impossible to trivial.

Unfortunately, I no longer have my savegame for the spot you are at, but if ever you get to the final stage and decide that you want a character revamp, PM me and I can send you that savegame.

Thanks for the reply, a poster on the steam forums recommended I should drop points in alteration (I haven't done it yet, since I'm now farming xp). If I do that then is the last boss still gonna be hard? Cause otherwise I'll dump all my points in Ice

I'm sure several paths lead to Rome.

I used alteration a lot for the last stage leading to the last boss (in particular, portal and invisibility) and it made that stage a lot easier (though I think I could have done it without those 2 spells), but for the last boss, 2 high level ice spells really came through and changed the fight from impossible to easy. I would have had to wrack my brain to find a good alternative.

I think I would have found it harder to defeat the final boss without ice magic than I would have found it to finish the final stage without alteration magic. The main thing that alteration magic did was allow me to finish it faster (by bypassing some enemies or sneak up close to their mages to melee-kill them with invisibility and teleport back to where I was before falling if I fell using portal).

For the last stage, my character had about 12 points in fire magic, ice magic, alteration magic, healing magic and 7 points in arcane magic. I had about 10 points in bows, 9 in maces and 10 in polearms, 16 in armor and about 15 in life points. I had 8 points in potions, 5 in daggers and 7 in axes which I ended up not using for the final stage (I ended up not using the orb of rebirth to get rid of the slack). My character was a warrior/mage.

By boosting arcane at least to level 4, you get the spell that allows you to come back from the dead which is nice, but it's icing on the cake. Level 5 will allow you to get the deadly cloud spell which made the pre-final boss a lot easier for me.

By boosting healing high enough to get the basic healing spell, you get unlimited life points as long as you can find a quiet spot to heal (there will be plenty in the last stage) and buy crazy amounts of green powder from the kitchen cook. This greatly simplifies the last stage as you cannot teleport back to heal.

Yeah, if you can get past Madox at your current level, there is a spot at the stage leading to the last level that is grinding paradise.

Basically, you have 4 purple mages spawning an endless supply of skeletons.

I grinded up to level 19 at that spot. I originally wanted to hit 20 to unlock the achievement, but between 18 and 19 was getting a bit slow and between 19 and 20 would have been even slower so I gave up on it and just finished the game.

Between the fact that I hit level 19 and that I played on hard difficulty (6 points per level instead of 5), I had plenty of character points to spread and experiment.

Anyways, if ever you get stuck at the last level with your character, PM me and I'll send you my savegame.