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I play BGT and until now I did not have big problems. But now I am on the wolf island in TotSC. I defeated all enemies except the leader (Karoug, or something like this). I have beaten the others by sending my tank up and then down immidiatly and only some of them followed me. (not really fair, but for me it was the only way to beat something there).
But when I attac the leader it says "weapon ineffective". I have weapons +2 and +3. Only the silver dagger from dradeel can hurt it. But greater wolfweres heal themselves so fast, that all chars have to hit him. My chars hit, but They do not do damage. Is there a way to solve this?

PS: I have beaten vanilla BG1 several times and I was always able to beat him. I am sure +2 or +3 weapons were able to hurt him. And I am also sure I had no problems beating greater wolfweres in vanilla BG2.

Magic is also useless. I gave a wand to every char who can use it and used the spells that make most damage. It was not enough to kill him and he recovered completely at once.
There are tricks to defeating him, mostly within the game's rules rather than exploiting the engine. I wish I could remember what they were, though...

Rather than using spells that deal damage, try using spells which perform disables and suchlike. They tend to work better, and will let you hit him at your leisure. He IS a hard fight, though, so good luck.
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Mad3: I play BGT and until now I did not have big problems. But now I am on the wolf island in TotSC. I defeated all enemies except the leader (Karoug, or something like this). I have beaten the others by sending my tank up and then down immidiatly and only some of them followed me. (not really fair, but for me it was the only way to beat something there).
But when I attac the leader it says "weapon ineffective". I have weapons +2 and +3. Only the silver dagger from dradeel can hurt it. But greater wolfweres heal themselves so fast, that all chars have to hit him. My chars hit, but They do not do damage. Is there a way to solve this?

PS: I have beaten vanilla BG1 several times and I was always able to beat him. I am sure +2 or +3 weapons were able to hurt him. And I am also sure I had no problems beating greater wolfweres in vanilla BG2.

Magic is also useless. I gave a wand to every char who can use it and used the spells that make most damage. It was not enough to kill him and he recovered completely at once.
The problem with fighting the Greater Wolfweres in the BG2 engine is that in BG1 they are immune to ALL weapons except silver weapons (Sword of Balduran, Bastard Sword +1 +3 vs Shapeshifters, Flame Tongue, Silver Dagger Werebane). Now, in BG1 there are flags that set those weapons as silver (and some as cold iron). These flags are simply not used in the BG2 engine, and that is why your +2 & +3 weapons are ineffective. It's been a while since I played BGT, so I'm not quite certain how (or if) this has been addressed.

Edit: As for magic, they have very low saves -- lower is better -- vs everything, they have 50% resistance to ALL elements (fire, cold etc.), and they regenerate at the rate of 5 HP PER SECOND!

Oh yeah, did I mention that they have 19 STR, 19 DEX, 3 natural AC, THAC0 6, and base 3 attacks per round?
Post edited March 03, 2014 by Hickory
Ok, those were the good new. Where are the bad ones?

I have only the dagger and the sword of balduran and no one of us is specialized in daggers or bastard swords. I have also the feelining it heals faster than 5HP per sec. I used all things that do damage at once (i guess 30-40 damage) and pressed pause in the moment it hit (the damage was shown in the log). It was still labeled as uninjured.

Hold person will not work on him (I guess) and I do not have hold monster. I do not have the wand of paralisation too. Only web and wand of fear could effect it. But this does not help. I can survive against it for some time and I can hit it. The problem is that I do not do damage. When only 2 people have effective weapons I cannot defeat it even when hasted.

- How much HP does he have (If one critical hit with bastard sword and 24str (I have a potion) is enough I have a 5% chance of killing it)
-Even if I could put him in a state where he cannot attac, this would not stop his immunity and regeneration.
- Im am sure I could harm greater wolfweres in BG2 with any magic weapon.

Is there a command to kill him? I never used the console (or other cheats) before, but in this case I would do an exception)

Edit: I used my best strengh potions and haste. He was hit for 61 damage within less than 1 sec and I pressed pause at once. He was still described as uninjured.
Post edited March 03, 2014 by Mad3
It sounds like you're affected by the rather severe Greater Wolfwere regen bug that exists in BG2. They have an undroppable ring item (wolfring.itm) that gives them their regeneration, but instead of giving them the bonus while it's equipped like it should, it gives them a permanent regen bonus every time it's equipped. Functionally, this means that every time you save and load the game in the same area as the wolfwere, their regen is increased permanently. I've you've been doing a lot of quicksaving and quickloading in the area, this can make them virtually invulnerable unless you can kill them with a single hit.

If you installed BGT without any other fixpack mods, you may just need to CTRL-Y him to kill him instantly, though you won't get the 8000 kill XP that way. Alternatively you can reload a previous save from before you entered the area, if you have one, and try to get all the way through without reloading. Since you're in BGT, you could also cheat in a Scroll of Finger of Death, which would have a pretty good chance of taking care of him.
Post edited March 03, 2014 by bevinator
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Mad3: Ok, those were the good new. Where are the bad ones?

I have only the dagger and the sword of balduran and no one of us is specialized in daggers or bastard swords. I have also the feelining it heals faster than 5HP per sec. I used all things that do damage at once (i guess 30-40 damage) and pressed pause in the moment it hit (the damage was shown in the log). It was still labeled as uninjured.

Hold person will not work on him (I guess) and I do not have hold monster. I do not have the wand of paralisation too. Only web and wand of fear could effect it. But this does not help. I can survive against it for some time and I can hit it. The problem is that I do not do damage. When only 2 people have effective weapons I cannot defeat it even when hasted.

- How much HP does he have (If one critical hit with bastard sword and 24str (I have a potion) is enough I have a 5% chance of killing it)
-Even if I could put him in a state where he cannot attac, this would not stop his immunity and regeneration.
- Im am sure I could harm greater wolfweres in BG2 with any magic weapon.

Is there a command to kill him? I never used the console (or other cheats) before, but in this case I would do an exception)

Edit: I used my best strengh potions and haste. He was hit for 61 damage within less than 1 sec and I pressed pause at once. He was still described as uninjured.
He does not heal 5 HP per round. He heals 5 HP per second! That is why you don't appear to be damaging him with a weapon you are not skilled in. In vanilla BG1 he has 66 HP. Every time you do 30 damage, by the end of the round (6 seconds) he will have healed fully. If you have a cleric, use Doom to lower his saves, and pile on him with both the dagger and the sword of Balduran. He will go down if you do it right.

Edit: I just noticed bevinator's post re. the BG2 regen bug. I wasn't aware of that. Nasty.
Post edited March 03, 2014 by Hickory
How to enter console?

I addad "Debug Mode=1" in the baldur.ini in programs/gog/baldurs gate II.
Then it is written I should press control+space and a window will pop up.
control = ctrl (Strg on my german keybord), right?
Nothing happens when I press ctrl+space except pause/unpause the game. especially no window popping up.

As I have said, I never used the console before.

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This means I have to be careful in areas with wolfweres.
Are there greater wolfweres in other areas than the ruin with the shadow dragon?
I must take care when saving then.

Does this affect other regenerating enemies as well?
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Mad3: How to enter console?

I addad "Debug Mode=1" in the baldur.ini in programs/gog/baldurs gate II.
You have the game installed to Program Files? Then Windows is using a baldur.ini in a virtual folder. You should never install games to Program Files... ever.
So I have to re install BG2 + BGT somewhere else and hope my save file still works.
Cut and paste won´t work, I guess.

Thats why I didn´t use any mody until now. I had no problems when I played vanilla BG1 or BG2. And without these problems I did not have the need to use cheats to advance.

PS: Is there a way to change the default install place? When I donwload games on gog it shows a big fat install button and a small button that leads to another screen where you select the install folder. When you watch how the download bar gets full you want to start playing it´s easy to push the big fat blinking button.
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Mad3: So I have to re install BG2 + BGT somewhere else and hope my save file still works.
Cut and paste won´t work, I guess.

Thats why I didn´t use any mody until now. I had no problems when I played vanilla BG1 or BG2. And without these problems I did not have the need to use cheats to advance.

PS: Is there a way to change the default install place? When I donwload games on gog it shows a big fat install button and a small button that leads to another screen where you select the install folder. When you watch how the download bar gets full you want to start playing it´s easy to push the big fat blinking button.
Yes, install it to somewhere like C:\Games\ , and don't worry about your saved games, they will work fine, but you will need to find them in the virtual folder, since they won't be saved to Program Files.

The GOG installer sets the default path. It is up to you to change it manually.
Problem solved.
I did not need to re-install. I searched the file name, it showed also a file in a folder called "virtual whatever something" and changed it there as well. Then I killed the wolf by command and continued as normal.

PS: when I killed these creatures they were called werewolf. I can remember I read wolfwere somewhere. Maybe it was a bad translation in the german version I had long before getting it on gog.
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Mad3: PS: when I killed these creatures they were called werewolf. I can remember I read wolfwere somewhere. Maybe it was a bad translation in the german version I had long before getting it on gog.
That must be a bad translation, because they are wolfweres. and [url=http://www.dotd.com/mm/MM00300.htm]wolfweres are completely different species, and have a lot of enmity between each other, as can be discerned by talking to the various people (werewolves) in the village on the Isle of Balduran, and as evidenced by the want to wipe each other out.
In BGT (english) the enemies I fight on this Island are described as werewolf. I know they were called wolfwere somewere, but I am not sure if it was vanilla BG1 or 2 and if it was english or german.

The creatures in the village live together as a family, they are in human shape and they live in houses. This makes them werewolfs according to your link. In their wolf form they look like a mix between wolf and man.

The creatures in the ship live together with wolves and they have only human form when they lure you into a trap. This makes them wolfweres, I guess.

I don´t think the game developers think that much about PnP rules. Most poeple know werewolfs but only a few know wolfweres and the difference between them (including me, until your link).

The article does not say how a human becomes a were-animal but I think it is by getting bitten. Which means there must have been one original were creature of each species. (wolf, rat, who knows what, . . .)

Edit: The enemies in the village were described as werewolfs. I did not read so carefully on the ship, so maybe the game is correct.
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Mad3: I don´t think the game developers think that much about PnP rules. Most poeple know werewolfs but only a few know wolfweres and the difference between them (including me, until your link).

The article does not say how a human becomes a were-animal but I think it is by getting bitten. Which means there must have been one original were creature of each species. (wolf, rat, who knows what, . . .)
I think you will be surprised at just how much information there is if you talk to all of the people in the village, and take note of all of the information in your journal about how Balduran's expedition came to a sticky end -- the villagers are, ultimately, Balduran's expedition descendants. I won't go into detail, because of spoilers.
After I returned, I found out that the person who gave me the quest is also immun to everything but silver weapon but his servant was not, though both were labeled with the same name. But he was only a normal and not a greater one.
Post edited March 05, 2014 by Mad3