a brush with death

[kevs1963]

Hi, can any1 help me with this quest, I have used up all my turpentine but can't kill the remainin trolls, swords nd fireballs don't seem 2 have any effect nd sneaking around the cliffs also doesn't work. I'd rather not start the whole game again but if I can't complete this quest i may have 2

[metamay]

Try lowering the difficulty.

[DM8954]

I'm pretty sure turpentine is the only thing that will work on them. Do you have a save (or an AutoSave) from before you ran out of turpentine? The thing is, after you poison your strongest mele weapon with turpentine, you have to just hack and slash away until they go down. Don't worry too much about blocking and such (unless you're about to die, of course) because it only lasts for a certain amount of time (possibly from the time you first strike). You can only plan to use one bottle per troll or you'll run out. I'd suggest just making sure you have full health going in, and don't attack more than one troll at a time, lure one away for some one-on-one. Other than that, I don't know.

[xit]

Never used the turpentine myself.
It's enough to just hack away at the trolls, either that or I use a simple fire spell.

[kevs1963]

Thanks metamay lowering the difficulty worked a treat.