I stumbled my way onto these forums looking for an answer on how to survive encounters with Vampiric Wolves because they seem a little overpowered for a party level 1-2 encounter (which is when I was running into them). But it seems that the original discussion was closed and I couldn't post the method I used, so I figured I'd fire up another thread on defeating Vampiric Wolves with limited character resources.
*SPOILER ALERT* - just a heads up because it involves acquiring certain NPCs, doing certain quests right away, acquiring new NPC's to BG:EE, that sort of thing.
So, this is how I am able to survive these encounters now, but I'd like to hear back from anyone else to see if I could've been doing better. Also, when I started out, I didn't know these creatures existed so I just had to adapt what I already had. :)
Started with a human Sorc (poorly rolled, I might add, with gobs of charisma and only a bit of dex and con since I played d&d before BG, and just made assumptions about SORCs). Took magic missile and chrome orb.
Skipping the fine details, I'll just post what was relevant;
Party was Imoen, Khalid, Jaheira, Neera, and Viconia (I was mostly rolling good and neutral, but wanted a cleric).
I finished up the Silke quest by killing her, this gave both Neera and my Sorc a magical staff (not that I wanted to have them in melee range with wolves, but I always have a backup plan). Neera was also given the Ring of Wizardry from FAI so she had 4 magic missiles at a time.
Ending up buying a magical mace for Viconia, but this can be avoided since she is level two when you pick her up, so she already has 'Spiritual Hammer'.
I had a +1 wakizashi for Jaheira (I know, not proficient, but had to use what I had access to.) Since I can't remember where I picked it up for sure (I want to say it was loot from the encounter where Dorn Il-Khan kills some old bandit partners) you can also use 'Shillelagh' so she has a magical weapon for the encounter. Also, I took 'Doom' to lower the Wolfs attack rolls, but I didn't take 'Armor of Faith' and I should have.
Khalid was actually stuck using Beruel's Retort +1 from Beregost since the +1 Mace for Viconia (also Beregost) cost almost all of my gold.
+1 Arrows for Neera, those aren't too expensive to have a few in the backpack...just in case.
The armor? Whatever I could get my hands on for free of course!
As for the fight (I only take on 1 Vampiric Wolf, by itself, fully rested and stocked, I ran otherwise); make sure to swap to magic weaps and ammo (obv).
Opened with 'Doom' (Jaheira), 'Chromatic Orb' (Main, but Neera could also), and 'Bless" (Viconia), everyone else just started whipping out damage, and making sure that Viconia was the closest to the Wolf (she was to be the tank).
'Barkskin' on Viconia before she has a chance to get 'Held' by the wolf, everyone else was just spamming ranged attacks and 2x magic missiles from both casters, and Jaheira is waiting until the wolf starts hitting Viconia so she doesn't get stun-locked (If you're going 'Shillelagh', this would be the time to cast it).
Finally, Viconia's last spell was 'Spirit Hammer', and then it was just the luck of the rolls while she waited to get stun-locked as everyone else in the party dished out damage.
I got away without too much damage but almost all my spells were exhausted, and I got a 1000 xp reward for my troubles =D
Hope this helps anyone looking for it, and I look forward to contributing more to the forums as I play.
- FC
