Talk:Drizzt Do'Urden/@comment-183.178.120.125-20180531130103/@comment-35434313-20200220031133

In BG2, you are "supposed" to enlist his help. if he's super strong, what's left for you to do when he's helping you? Even in this state, he's already very strong & super fast against those vampires that you may ask him to help get rid of. Every kill he makes yields no XP for you. You really don't him to be so strong as to make all the kills for you.

This Drizzt encounter was designed for original SOA, which had XP cap set to 2.95 million, meaning: the highest possible level for any mage was merely 17.

On the other hand, your mage must be level 16+ for being able to use the level 8 trigger spell and put a level 6 spell (Improved Haste) in it. Given that the difference between level 16 and 17 is minor.. obviously, your mage is already super strong by the standard of original SOA.

TOB raised the XP cap to 8 million. After that, you may be at a level much higher than what this encounter was designed for. It is understandable that you and almost all other players nowadays may find this encounter easy or super easy to handle, no matter which option to choose, going violent or not.