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can anyone tell mw how to defeat "josephine", the witch in the cellar who keeps smoking me with hell spikes? She is the one I need to defeat so i can finish the elf quest for the council of 7.
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There were hundreds of posts about this on the old forum, but alas they've all vanished now. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

There are quite a few ways of beating her, but here's one or two..

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The easiest way of all is to climb down the ladder, drop a couple of scorpions and nip back up again. You can just whistle and polish your armour while the XP points float up from the pit... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

But freeze, blind, hellspikes and various other things in different combinations all work OK and help sort out the dwarves before you get to work on J. Freeze is very effective generally, either as a spell or if you find a weapon with it as an attribute (in fact such weapons tend to take the fun out of the game by being too effective).

There is an occasional bug here too - whereby one of the 3 artefacts you seek gets stuck in the wall (it's some kind of staff from memory??).

Good luck. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


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I managed to beat her the good old fashioned way the first time - by dying a lot. LOL

No, seriously I had none of the neat things listed above and had to somehow get to the point of hacking her with my sword. She actually has to stop doing hellspikes if you can hit her! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />


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If you are a warrior use a shadow potion then go stand next to her and use special move of her and watch her die slowly

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a friend had a hard time with that.. VERY hard time actually as a wizard.. i was a warrior.. and i was using the deathknight sword (like the sword of chaos.. but deathknight was better for me) which had frost 4 on it as well as the soul one with 4 on it.. i just used my spinny fighter move and hit all the dwarveses at the same time.. froze em.. spun some more and they were all dead..

i have to say.. if you can find a good sword with frost on it.. it will make boss fights so much easier.. i have tried some without my deathknight sword and they were alot harder.. i actualyl dont know how hard some of the bosses are because they were never able to hit me.. i am level 38 right now.. only had the game 3 days and really just found out about hwo you can reload to get a better ability on an item.. heh.. so i will probably camp that sword of gods till i got at least frost 5 with hopefully others on it as well..

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My character's a mage.

I was finally sick of tossing blind, curse, and watch as my skeletons barely hit Josephine. So I jumped into the fray, sucked up the beating her dreadknight was giving me, and hacked her to death. (Dagger with frost 4.)

It wasn't a pretty sight. -_-

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I just kept throwing Deathnights and Hellspikes right back at her. Plus busted her up with the good ol' sword helped too! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />


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