Hmmm, Xykon can cast 12th level spells.

Badass.

Xykon raises an excellent point that, as usual, no one has really thought about. Also, for all you who aren't so familiar with D&D rules, the souls just dropped at least ten levels. That's really bad. If V doesn't know liches are immune to electricity it might be reasonable to assume she also doesn't know about details like a phylactery, but the way this fight is going, it looks like that's not going to be an issue anytime soon.

e: I'll just put the exact wording here:

Yeah it occurred to me after I woke up this morning that he just used a Maximized Energy Drain, IE, holy shit, he's not an 18th level sorcerer, he's like 25. (I don't have an ELHB so I don't know) No wonder V couldn't top him.

I also like the fact that Xykon is basically like, yeah, so these guys are dead souls? That means they are below me.

Specification of my theory: V and her tag-alongs lose so many levels from this fight that V has no other choice but to hold on to the splices, simply to at least remain as powerful as she was before this whole deal-with-the-devil mess started.

e: vv Hah, yeah. My own fault for listening to the low-WIS ranger.

from what they already showed it looks like as long as the spliced ones are stronger, they will be the only ones drained, not that it matters as he is reliant on them. Personally I'd prefer if Xzykon isn't just plain stronger then they are. Pushing the philosophy that, you might be level 1000, doesn't help you much if you dont have the experience and knowledge to use it to its full potential.

How much did that empowered sunburst do? I mean, Xykon is undead, so the damage was doubled. But was the 1d6 per caster level for undead creatures (which also is frankly a lot because of the soul splices) doubled? Or was it just 6d6, doubled, plus 1d6 per caster level?

And what does empower do again?

It does 1 and 1/2 times what the spell did, so if he rolled 6d6 he does 6d6 times 1.5. It should have whupped his ass for a lot of damage, but given that he was barely affected and even took a minute to mock him just because, Xykon is seriously hardcore.

This is the first time Roy's task has really ever been put into perspective.

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Ya know, when Xykon took out the Paladins in Azure City, I was thinking... Nah... He's not that badass.

But taking on V who had immense power given to him and making him look stupid in two rounds.

That's kinda humbling...

Placing a bet he's gonna be soul binded if he doesn't escape.

Wait, wasn't the dragon going to Soul Splice V's kids to him? I thought the uniqueness of the V version was who was being spliced/the conditions.