Killing mara as SpEn?

[arandomperson12]

I thought of a easyish way to do this: read scroll of vulnerability, confuse, stab. Would this work? I do not actually have a SpEn right now.

[le_nerd]

Sure, that works. Paralyze works a lot better for obvious reasons and by the time one meets Mara one usually has one left over /paralyzes.

[Reptisaurus]

But if you're a hexer confuse would probably work better.

I ran it in wizmode. Hexes 25, Spellcasting 19, Intelligence of 22 plus scroll of vulnerability gave me a 48% chance to confuse Mara. Not too shabby!

Of course that is less than even odds, so he can always phantom mirror and then illusion you before confuse lands. But worth a shot, if you have scroll of vulnerability to burn.

(Generally, I just avoid Mara of course.)

[njvack]

If he clones himself or you, you can usually walk away and reset the fight, and come back and try hexing him again.

Otherwise, good allies (divine / undead / rod of shadows) and keeping Mara out of LoS (I think he won't clone, blink or illusion if he's out of sight) and big area of effect spells and invocations (this is a good time to pull out Apocalypse) will take care of him.

[Shard1697]

As species with high movespeed I would park him on cleared floor that I will not be retreating onto from fights.