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heheheehe, u probably thinks its nothing but it took me trial and error 2 hours! (which is probably not fair and square)

I would like ppl to see what I did, and comment on teh good bits and what I could have done better so I can IMPROVE! afterall I am a newbie [img]smile.gif[/img]


I am a level 12 mage... so its hard right?

This is what I did (don't laugh):

************** spoiler for other newbies *************************

Umbra is East of Suran, but travel south first and then east followed by NW to get to him... looks a bit like a Samurai warrior in his full Orc Plate and his Umbra sword...

SAVE GAME!

I am a mage with some 70HP so Umbra would crush me in 3 blows if not 2. he also runs just as fast as me (which is pretty fast as I am a stead).

Here is what I did:

--- summon fire annorach who gets killed very quickly but does the pretty decent fireball a few times [img]smile.gif[/img]

--- now be fair and talk to Umbra to initiate the attack

---have the secret weapon which is a shortsword of paralysis (can't remmeber name but was given earlier on in a quest? Very cheap with only 50 charges, but paralyzes Umbra for 5 secs per hit (needed to brush up on Shortsword skills to at least 30? I was on 32)

--- run behind your summon very quickly and keep running as Fire Anorach is about to do its multiple fireballs

--- this draws fire away from me and I now SAVE THE GAME!!!!!!!! [img]smile.gif[/img]

--- this is the key, get Umbra damaged and NOT attacking u [img]smile.gif[/img]

--- Now use the shortsword to go up and get him again before he kills the summon

--- Use ABSORB health spell (need to be have Mysticism 40), to drain HP to u...
can do upto 50HP drain added to urself [img]smile.gif[/img]

--- Have an extra Summon Scroll ready if ur Summon dies... it is vital to always have someone else with high HP to run around of.

--- I failed about 9 times or something, each time I either got slaughtered in 2 seconds or got Umbra down to a few HP before died. This time I just got lucky I guess

--- Key is not to get him to touch u [img]smile.gif[/img] need Absorb health and some kind of Paralysis [img]smile.gif[/img] and Save in battle often

--- I haven't tried legging it to the guards yet [img]tongue.gif[/img]

HOPE that wasn't a lot of rubbish, but IW is friendly and I am a newbie

Avy




Umbra is name of his sword which soultraps on hit for 60 secs and does max dmg of 50.


P.S. look for an Adamatine Claymore (can't remember where from but is priced at 21,000 I think and dishes out more than Umbra?) That was not as hard to get from a less talented fighter in Vivec.