Ferriic Ironblade is a member of Samia's relic hunter group.
Gameplay[]
This human male Fighter/Thief will spawn at the designated location when Samia's group is triggered by script to appear.
Ferric might be invisible when he spawns or soon after and will remain so until his invisibility is removed via magic or detect illusion or breaking it by attempting a backstab attack (X4 backstab damage modifier).
His script looks for Mage, Cleric, Bard and Druid classes as his primary target for a backstab, in that order.
His script will continuously be performing a Detect Illusion thief skill of his own, although he has a very low chance of success. He does have a pretty good stealth chance of >100% to become hidden, depending on lighting and proximity to opponents.
Ferric will quaff a Potion of Extra Healing if moderately wounded. He will also use the Potion of Frost Giant strength in the first few rounds of hostilities.
Mod content[]
This section is about unofficial content that is only available via fan-made mods.
The Sword Coast Stratagems mod makes a few changes to Ferric. He has a new default SCS Thief script, that implements a backstabbing plan. He may quaff a ability boosting potion while under his initial invisibility. These are random by the mod, such as a Potion of Freedom or Potion of Magic Blocking.
As with the vanilla creature, it looks for spellcasters, and helpless opponents to attack from stealth/invisibility first. After taking a swing, when he breaks invisibility, will quaff a Potion of Invisibility and attempt another backstab. Can do this a total of four times. After that will apply the Oil of Speed and try bow fire first, and long sword when forced to.
Weapon proficiencies were kept about the same, except Ferric has 2 pips in shortbow, so has slightly improved THAC0, damage and APR.