Dumb Noob Question

Knai · #1 February 14th, 2012, 10:34 PM

What resources do you have? You mentioned paralyze and soul slay, so I'm assuming fairly good astral access. In which case, at a very low end, you almost certainly have Horror Mark. Slightly higher up, there's the small matter of Stellar Cascades.

However, if you also have other magic, new options open. For instance, Gifts from Heaven may well be your friend (29 protection does next to nothing against it), and if it isn't immune to lighting there is always focused fire lightning spells.

Another method is to use your own SC, that is specialized in killing SCs. What equipment you would use is slightly different, in that you want a single target weapon you can reasonably hit with that does either a lot of damage or has a very nice side effect. If you're dealing with an undead or demon, that may well mean the Flambeau, and if you are using CBM the Gate Cleaver is actually a meaningful contender. If, and this is a big if, you can manage to get your hands on a Hell Sword that would be ideal. One touch, and your SC problem is solved forever.

Kobal2 · #2 February 15th, 2012, 12:54 AM

Fatigue is the SC killer.
Fatigue is the little death that brings total obliteration.

Stellar Cascades, Ghost Grip, Numbness, Petrify, Paralyze (with high S and pen. boosters, it's easier to cast than Soul Slay so an S4 caster will have +1 pen bonus on top of their gear), Sleep spam, summons with heat/cold auras or in a pinch and if the SC is not fatigue-neutral, a massive skellyspam.

That's what I'd try first.

If that SC relies on self-buffing and doesn't have a tower shield, a handful of air or nature mages self-buffing eagle eyes/aim then letting loose with bows of botulf will neuter him. Even better if you can Quicken them.

If you have the blood/astral combo, repeatedly sending horrors at the guy will work. Eventually. And in the meantime, if you can send a lot of them at once then you stand a chance of stacking enough fear auras to make him run and cancel his orders for the turn (or even kill him if you've cut off his escape routes). This of course assumes the guy is on his own, if he's in the middle of an army this particular trick won't cut it.