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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 2540300" data-attributes="member: 9053">There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread, but let me offer a slightly different approach. YOU seem to be doing your job pretty well. How are your other two members doing? What I mean is that in a smaller group everyone needs to be inherently more efficient to make up for the lack of extra bodies...err targets for the opposition. Having made it through the Tomb of Abythsor recently with only two casualties, here are my suggestions:First, sit down with the mage and cleric and go over their spells to get you optimized for battle. Two suggestions: summon monster to give your opponents something else to hit, and magic circle against evil for you. Tomb was full of bad-guy clerics, and the magic circle saved us so many times I lost count. As someone who owns and has run Temple as well, you're in for a lot of cleric encounters as time goes by. What our group ended up doing was going level by level through the spell lists (we used the complete books, so this took a while) and picked out all of the offensive and defensive buffs that would stack together. We put together a standard "combat package" based on those buffs.Second, fight those battles at a time and place of your choosing. Spend some time talking about what you expect to do each session, get in, get it done and get out. Both of our deaths in Tomb occurred when we had accomplished what we should have done, and then decided to stick it out for "one more room."Third, take a look at the tactics you're using for fights. I see that you have both cleave and great cleave (I am resisting the Order of the Stick reference here). Most people believe that you don't get a lot of use out of great cleave at higher levels, and this is true a lot of the time--but that's largely due to bad tactics! When you get into a battle, you can see pretty easily how many HPs your opponents have. After a few battles, you'll get to know some of them by heart. The way to handle it is to have your wizard nuke 'em to the point where you can come in and finish them off in one blow. Most of the time I've seen wizards do complete overkill on their opponents, which is a waste. Hope that helps...--Steve</blockquote>

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