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As a note, the benefits for doing things the "good" way are somewhat substantial. If you chose the evil path on even a single test, your main character's alignment is immediately switched to evil (resulting in instant death for a paladin). The benefits you obtain as you open the five seals on the door are also different for good and evil characters. There were some other negative aspects to the evil paths of the specific tests; feel free to load up a game and see what happens if choose the other path through a test.
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It's too bad you'll only have these bonuses for the five minutes it'll take you to beat Irenicus. |
Before you approach the final door, get ready for the final incarnation of Jon Irenicus. He's really not extremely tough, though he does summon two glabrezus and two balors as soon as the fight begins, so a protection from evil spell would be wise to cast beforehand. If you're powerful enough, you can probably just lure them to the southern end of the level and kill them; Irenicus doesn't seem to do much when you're not around, though he will mislead himself, so be careful. He's actually not really Irenicus when you fight him; he'll become the slayer creature that you've morphed into on occasion since your soul was stolen. Weirdly enough, he seems to have fewer protections against melee weapons than when you fought him at the tree of life, or those that he does cast will run out before the demons are dead, so surrounding him and pounding might work in this instance for parties with powerful melee warriors. He does cast death spells on occasion, though, so if you can get out of his line of sight and send a few summoned animals or elementals toward him, he might throw away a few of his more advanced spells before you must advance.
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Elementals and other summoned creatures are surprisingly effective against the slayer. |
One trick that you might use to your advantage is that the slayer simply isn't very aggressive. He'll chase you, but if you throw a couple of summoned creatures in the way, he'll generally stop to deal with them and then stop where he is if he can't see you. So, you can simply wait for a while a screen or so away from the slayer, heal up, wait for any mazes to wear off, and when you come back to the slayer, most of his spell and weapon protection spells will have worn off. He does regenerate at a fearsome rate, though, so you'll probably be facing him at full strength this way, but he'll be easier to hit with your weapons and have fewer spells at his disposal. In the end, brawn defeats brains, so surround him and apply a beatdown to end all beatdowns for the win.
As we noted previously, there is unfortunately no way to continue the game with the same characters after you defeat Irenicus for the final time. If you want to keep on playing, you can always load up an earlier game or import your characters into the forthcoming Neverwinter Nights game.
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