Talk:Shade Lord/@comment-35434313-20200213122428

The Shade Lord was dreadful in the original BG2 for a solo character.

He enters the battle with a spellstrike, followed up with a Finger of Death. Spellstrike removes all of your magical defenses in one go. Finger of Death instantly kills you if you fail the saving throw. Even if you successfully avoid its instant death effect, it will still do a small amount of magical damage, enough to nterrupt your effort to bring up your lost magical defenses.

After the opening, he may choose to stun you. If stunned, you'll almost surely die here.

However, if you are not soloing, this can be a very uneventual encounter. The Shade Lord is supposed to be a mighty evil villain in a corporal form of a ranger (othewise how could he have command a mighty dragon and a large army of shadows?). But Mazzy can almost always kill him with a fastest bow, if the game is set on full auto. That's because he does not have mage spells like Stoneskin to stop physical attacks.