Ok first of all sorcerer spell selection may seem sipler but in truth its more complicated than regular mage ss. The sorc picks his spells and sticks with them, no way to unlearn (short of cheating which i despise). Google Dan Simpson and take a look at his Guides. His BG guides are really good and intelligently written (i played with a guide close by through my 1st time, just so i don't miss on anything. Just play through the area/quest first and then take a look to see if you did it right (read: as an experienced player would).
About Time Stop, you shouldn't run in many enemies able to cast it early on. But if you got to ToB already, this implies you have the infamous Cloak of Mirroring. Just have Corgan sit there like a log, enraged of course, and let whoever cast the TT waste his/her time blasting away. If by any chance you don't have it or don't want to use it (kind of pointless if you CLUA those rods every once in a while
) Just do what the posters before me suggested - haste a char (Viccy for example, she is one of my favorite NPC's and i wouldn't reccomend dropping her, since she is one of the best decoy's in the game. Her MR and godly AC can really help you out with melee later on.) and as soon as the enemy starts casting, just run away from their view. No need to go in the next room, just hide out in the fog and wait untill TT expires. I just did this with the elemental lich, since i tackled it with a lvl 10 group
equiping your main char with arrows of biting and making him/her invisible could help if you manage to get a shot in before the contigency kicks in. By the way i'm not certain that Aerie can get to lvl 9 arcane spells. Can someone clarify that?
Oh, you could always summon a nishruu/hakeashar (might have spelled that wrong), since they are immune to magic and eat spellcasters for breakfast. Never felt the need to try them out myself. I played with a Sorcerer my 1st time trough, and just did the TT cheese myself. How dumb of me
By the way, if you do get to the Improved Alacrity + Robe of Vecna + Amulet of Power + Time Stop godslaying combo, be shure to set the game to Autopause when a spell is cast. Trust me on this one
