Your tactics could easily be adapted here to defeat the walrus.
1. Get rid of his stoneskin. It's not contributing as much as his Greater Enliven, Natural Dam Redux, Barrier, or other wandage - but it's one less protection. Stop trying to lightning pillar and be amazed when it doesn't work because he's as prepped as you are.
2. The walrus moves like shit at great expense. Quicksand drains moves. You do the math.
3. All shapeshifters are extremely vulnerable to stat maledictions. If you don't want him doing damage, maledict his strength. Maledicting his dex helps too. You'll notice after a few iceneedles, he started fighting much worse than he began. Work on that, and it's easy street. Wounding needles edge really helps with this style of tactics.
4. Every shifter form has usually an elemental vulnerability. While I can't guarantee the walrus does, mammals tend to be vuln fire and resistant to cold (reptiles get the opposite). They also usually have resistances too. Like resist physical. Figure them out, work around them.
Yhorian
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2008 02:59AM by Yhorian.