How to Beat Eldirith Easily
Entry Location:
Onyx Tower
This is how you beat Eldirith easily. First, when she starts throwing her sword at you and you have a good shield (iron) use it. Every time her sword is coming back to her go up and slash her with the Onyx Sword (if you have it). Then electricity will surround her and she will become huge and go up to try to kill you. DO NOT TRY TO BLOCK IT, IT WILL STILL HURT YOU! Instead, run around like an idiot and hack and slash her. It may take a while, but it'll definitely work.
Submitted By: Cole Koretos
Two Player Regeneration
When playing 2p. mode and one of the players dies you dont need to load to get him/her back, the living player just have to go to a savegame point to regenerate the dead player.
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide
Bosses
HAving trouble with the bosses. Here is how to beat some of them.
1.Huge Rat: This is very dodgily fast so you will need to slash at it as it runs at you. The archer is good to keep it at bay. Its weakness is lightning so if you have a lightning arrow then use it.
2. Lizard King
This gut is slow and powerful. If you are playing solo then run around him and slash when you get his back to you. Use acid and fire together. If you are playing two player then one should stand and fire acid arrows and the other should use an axe or a sword and 'hack and slash'
3. The BEHOLDER KING!! This guy stays virtually still and his back is his weakness. With two players he should be easy, but watch out for when he eats you. If you have repulsion this is good to use. Try to saty far away and use arrows and Bull Rush if you are the dwarf.
4. THe Final Boss. This stupid woman's attacks are damn powerful. Kill her! I can never kill her the same way twice, so just go for it!! :)
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide
Sky Sleyvas
This is more of a glitch then a cheat but if u have a 2 player file go to sleyvas-one person cast meteor strike and at the same time the other person talks to sleyvas when sleyvas says more...the screen will hurdle in to the air above the forest and he will still talk like normal and there ya go Sky Sleyvas
Beat Last Boss
This is the way i beat the last boss (the nasty lady in the onyx tower). Two characters are required so get a mate and play together.
One should have the onyx sword to actually do some damage to her, and the other needs fairly good armor and a sense of loyalty to take a cap in the rear for you.
The fighter with the sword needs to run in and slash her then run away while the other diverts her to take the attack, this works best with the dwarf and the sorceress.
The sorceress doesn't have to run in and die for the dwarf, my friend and i managed to survive together by using the above technique. With the onyx sword this usually takes about five to six hits and your done.
One more thing, when she throws her sword, make sure you get that shield up fast because it homes in on you.
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide
Good Class/Weapon/Armour Mixes
You need to think about what class does best.
Obviously the dwarf needs to do damage SO...
The best thing to do when you progress further is get him the biggest whooparse axe you can find and hack and hack and hack till they fall to bits or the dwarf collapses from over-exertion with a silly grin on his face.
It might be my personal opinion but honestly, don't get yourself worked up over getting Clangeddin's Strike or whatever its called, because it just hinders you. It needs a hammer to use and the hammer is so much slower in attack than an axe you'd wonder why they put it in in the first place. Trust me, whirlwind and bullrush are the way to go.
Likewise the sorceress needs a way to protect herself when it comes down to the dirty work.
Regardless of what people might say, she just can't hack it with a shiny dagger and a cone of cold spell. Not to say she needs to get up close but you need to realize that there will be plenty of times when she has to disembowel the attackers. As soon as you can get her a decent sword, a decent shield and maybe even a bow. Oh, and put as many points as you can spare into mordenkainen's sword because the little bloke will go far let me tell you.
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide
Easy EXP and Onyx Sword
First use the level warp+the invicibility cheat and warp to the Hall of Remembrance, then go down the stars to the Black Forge, there open the chest and pick up whatever you find, then go over and search the weapon rac, take the weapon and slay the iron giant or whatever it's called. You should now gain about 17 levels
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide
Extra Exp
To gain loads of exp you can keep warping to sleyvas then Ciraxis. keep killing them for good exp.
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide
Advice for during the game
Killing Enemies easily: When you are facing an extra hard enemy or boss in Balders gate there are several ways to kill them:
Run around the enemy as if you were trying to make them dizzy and keep hitting them.
If you use a shield then you can block then hit then block then hit etc. It takes time but you don't loose any life if you are fast enough.
Find a doorway and use a shield for the above method. This is useful when more than one enemy is in the next room.
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide
Rise from the dead!
By using the Import Character function, you can bring a character back from the dead (in a 2 player game)WITHOUT loading a saved game.
When a character dies, Import the same character from the most recent saved file. They will return exactly as they were when saved. Remember that the character will return where they died, so if the character died by falling into a pit, for example, they will return and fall into the pit again.
This is a handy way to not have to repeat tough scenes over again!
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide
Play as Drizzt
To unlock Drizzt this is what you need to do:
1- Finish the game.
2- After the credits you will play an additional level ( the gauntlet ) as Drizzt. DO NOT SAVE during this level.
3- Once you finish the gauntlet level you will unlock the "extreme" difficulty level.
4- Beat the game again in "extreme" difficulty.
5- Import Drizzt into a new game.
Submitted By: Grimgor Ironhide