Getting past the bloody spider.

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18/mage/hard

trolls trolls trolls. abuse these suckers hard. they are boarder-line cheating IMO. I managed to squeeze 3 into a stack with some leadership items. just had them hit the boss every turn, backed by some offensive magic for about 1k damage a turn. 1.5k with double cast.

the trolls usually shurgged off the damage and full healed at the beginning of the round, although once the baby spider stacks get big enough you could get unlucky and lose a troll before there turn starts to full heal.

the other stacks are simply throw-away troops to tie up the baby spiders. hitting the boss with anything else just gets them counter attacked and chunked badly. the boss is even capable of multiple counter attacks per round.

try parking your baby spider diversion troops in the corners so they cant get surrounded and mobbed by more then 2 baby spiders at a time.

what makes excellent tanks in this battle are snakes. you can mass purchase them from the witch chick in the cave. snakes have 90% poison resist and the baby spiders are 100% poison damage, so you buy 3 full stacks of snakes/swamp snakes/royal snakes.

another suggestion would be to pick up the calm rage spell. turns useless rage at boss fights into usable mana. the conversion ratio is like 2 rage for 1 mana.