Anyone soloed Improved Irenicus dungeon?

[Rataxes]

Quite hard I must say, at least if you're going to do all the quests. Took me about 3 hours with a kensai because of all the reloads. The addition of much tougher shadow thieves lurking here and there, was the first surprise, especially when they began using wands to hold, frighten or hurt me. The first really tricky part was the Greater Otyugh (sp?) which kept slowing me so I could just barely beat it's regen rate (it casts regeneration almost immediately) , I died a few times just trying to force fight him down. Failing that, I sneaked past him with one of my many invisibility potions I'd gotten from the various shadow thieves, and then grabbed the speed potion. Experimented with invisibility and speed potions a while and then realized that the Otyugh would simply slow me yet again whenever I tried to speed up.

So I gave up trying to beat him in a fair fight. My new plan was to fight him from the stairs, where I could reach him with my staff, but he could not reach me. There I could slowly wittle him down and then, quick as a fox, swallow a speed potion and go for the killing blow when he panicked. He never did panic though, but simply died after I'd pounded on him for like 5 minutes. I had no great problems with acquiring the items in the library and the other trapped circular room, although I had to use another invisibility potion to be able to sleep in peace and recover (the creator lied when he said there's a chance of getting attacked when taking a nap, you ALWAYS get attacked).

The battle with Iliych (sp?) took about 30 minutes with all the reloads. Had to lure the golem and monster out first, kill the golem and then lure away the monster from me since I had nothing that could touch him, did this by basically going through the entire dungeon and closing some doors behind me. But now I couldn't sleep nor save since the game still thought I was involved in combat, even though he was trapped on the other side of the map! (bug anyone?). So every time I failed with the rest of the duergars, I had to reload from before I killed the golem.
But anyway, the battle with the duergars was actually not overly difficult. I first swallowed an invisibility potion and the speed potion I had saved. Then I went up to the priest and whacked him once, after that it was basically hit and run on every single duergar, they were also hasted but I was still faster, and attacked a lot faster. I did of course have to reload until I managed to save from the slow effect of that special ability Iliych used, downed the priest, then went after the annoying chick who kept pelting me with her crossbow. After that it was easy since they couldn't harm speedy me with their melee-only arsenal. Rasputin did manage to stun me a few times so there came a few more reloads.

The rest of the dungeon I went through without problems, couldn't kill the vampire though, could only be harmed by +2 weapons this time around and my 1 attacks per round wasn't going to cut it vs her.

Anyway, I'm interested to hear about other people who managed to complete the entire dungeon on their own, since I think that the mod was really balanced to be tackled by party you can build in the dungeon, rather than by a single person.

[serjeLeBlade]

I never solo, it makes me feel... lonely
I don't think I'd be able to beat Imp. Illych with the pc alone... It took the four of us just to take care of the Rune Assassins that used to ambush you at rest every now and then in version 5. (They really appeared randomly, back then).
Weimer is releasing new versions way faster than I can finish the dungeon one single time... Now v8 is out.
Anyway, we managed to kill the vampire instead
The club that Illych drops is +3 and is good for that

[genxooseven]

Solo'ed with a Sorc on insane difficulty. 20+ Skull traps for Illyich's bunch and some Melf's for the Golem. Rest remained about the same; melf here, melf there. Great job though on getting out of the dungeon in one piece, with a Kensai I'd expect it to be about 100X harder than with a sorc.