Baldur's Gate 2:
Hah, after killing the red dragon (Kirkgraad something), I now eat dragons for breakfast! Before moving on to chapter 3, I decided to re-visit Umar Hills to kill that pesky Shadow Dragon that had earlier effortlessly wiped out my party when I tried to approach him.
Now I proved to be a much more worthy opponent. Unlike the red dragon fight where I basically got lucky and were able to kill it by spamming with cloudkill wand spells while he was stuck in a small room, this was a genuine and tactical head-to-head encounter, which I won.
I sent as many summoned monsters as possible to Shadow Dragon to keep him busy, and then sent two of my best fighters to hit him from behind. At the same time I cast some spells at the dragon that would lessen his magical defenses. Whenever my fighters would become badly injured, I sent them back to be healed by others (and drinking health potions), while spamming more summoned monsters to keep the dragon busy so that he would not follow the fleeing fighters.
Bit by bit the dragon's condition got worse and worse, and I even started believing I can beat him in a fair(?) fight head-to-head. And sure enough, eventually he did die, and I got his scales. Woohoo! Then again, Shadow Dragon seemed to be easier than that red one, mainly as the shadow dragon wouldn't cast the Heal spell which would bring his health back up.
Then again, when I went to make another set of armor from the Shadow Dragon scales, the armor made from it was rather meh. AC 0, and extra resistance to acid attacks. Meh, all my fighter types already had the same or even better armor. The armor made from red dragon scales felt better, AC -1 and +50% to fire resistance.
So, where be more dragons, then? Maybe in chapter 4, it took me only an hour or so to go through chapter 3 as I had already finished almost all the subquests I could find in chapter 2 (except Kangaxx quest), so there was only one set of missions to do to finish chapter 3.
Post edited September 27, 2013 by timppu