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I have been through the five sites withing the skull in the land of the dead for some time now, and cannot seem to defeat Josephine in the last site. The hell spikes she uses keep killing off my character!...any suggestions?
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Thee are many ways to do it. Do a search. As an archer I used poisoned weapon and splitting arrows.

Chasing Josie... techniques for defeating Josephine


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I found them very easy. I never used any spells for it.
Just use the holy weapon. It will freeze her almost constantly.
I thought the end game was a little too easy. I never used one single spell for the whole part after becoming the divine one. Except for going over that black river.
When using the holy weapon,I didn't even need to use heal potions or any other potions. Just hit her and she falls dead, without even hitting you (since she's frozen most of the time)

Personally, I avoided weapons with Frost, since it is over-powered (ignores target resistance, and works on creatures the Freeze spell will not). I re-loaded a fair bit for my Nobleman's Sword, but only got Frost as a bonus a couple times. The one I kept was my second or third try.

You mean the weapon is random? (up to a certain level of course)
if so: didn't know that... I think I might have been lucky then.
And I agree that it's over powered a bit.
I mean,I'm not much of a gamer,I never even finished a game, but I finished Divinity in 2 months, while I couldn't play during 1 month, so I finished it in 1 month. And actually it went really fast as soon as I had that weapon,so...
Still...i'm exited I finally finished a game I'm good! yay! *g*

Yes, all stats on weapon, armour, etc. are random. They are determined when you first look at them (even if you only ID it later)
Lots of players use the trick to save before opening chests and reloading after identifying an item when they don't like the stats.

If you quick save before running your mouse over an item/chest/merchant or hitting the alt key, you can identify the item or trade with the merchant, then quick load to get different stats or inventory. This can be done repeatedly to get the best stats or specific bonuses on an item (save after finding good candidates) or looking for specific items (such as spell books or charms) from merchants.
I wasted too much time getting good items this way my first game, which made the game a little easy (even with avoiding Frost and not using charms, except one).

Actually, items can be a bit too random. Re-loading for the holy sword and various dragon armour pieces, I saw a few with white names and no bonuses. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> In my second game, I decided not to re-load for regular chests, and only re-load a limited number of times for stuff like the dragon armour.

This is what I got;

Nobleman's Sword

Durability 12
Charm Quality 3
Damage 71-100
2 Strength
4 Agility
6 Constitution
60 Magic
Life Drain(4)
Stun(5)
lightning Damage(5)
Spiritual Damage(4)