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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3248477" data-attributes="member: 29014">Yes, the Tulani had Ice Resistance 10--that's why it was so impressive a victory:  He would have done ridiculously more against something with no Ice Resistance, but I would have considered it an unfair test to say that he can win against something that is the optimum for him to fight--I wanted something that was actually somewhat strong against his attacks, though not immune to ice either, since obviously he won't win against that.  Fire Resistance stance gave him immunity to the Meteor Swarm (except the bludgeoning damage).  That surprised the heck out of the Tulani and used up its best attack for basically nothing.  After running out of better attacks, it later used Improved Invisibility and Haste and whacked around with its Brilliant Energy sword, but it couldn't even hold a candle to the Swordsage regardless.  He first used the manoeuvre that sets up a field of ice, and then he was combining his dual-wielded +1 Cold Iron Icy Burst Rapiers (aligned Evil) with Mark of Stygia (+4 to hit and damage if both combatants are fighting on ice, which the tulani didn't know he had) and/or (when he had it readied) the level 7 manoeuvre that gives all his attacks 3d6+16 extra cold damage (if he didn't have this ready, he also liked the manoeuvre that gave him an extra attack paired with his Mark of Stygia ability to add 2d6 ice damage to each attack).  When the Tulani tried hit-and-run with ranged attacks to deny him the full attack, he countered with the counter that warps him right next to the enemy and unleashed the full attack anyway.Granted, the Tulani's AC was quite high, so the Swordsage was quite lucky to hit with even 3 out of 6 attacks (his best round was 3 hits (1 of which was a crit) out of 6 using the 3d6+15 manoeuvre to deliver I believe ~60 cold damage and 47 regular damage (it was 107 damage in total after Cold Resistance, and I know the cold damage was at least 90 before Cold Resistance).  Mr. Tulani had to Heal after that, and the Swordsage eventually had to use a healing potion due to the Tulani's use of Heal, but he still won.</blockquote>

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