Did Serini build a mage breaker dungeon?

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It's a fair assumption, certainly I'd do that (although we also know the OotS isn't necessarily optimized either.)

But they are supposed to be optimized to the things they are expected to do.

Roy may not be the greatest optimized build for what we assume is standard stuff for a fighter to face - but we sure as heck assume he is at least trying to optimize his build to fight a certain undead spellcaster.

I'd assume Haley would be up the slack on her search skill (or get items to cover it up)

I don't think Find Traps gives that high a bonus. Probably not nearly as high as Haley.

SRD says you get a bonus equal to half your level up to a maximum of 10.
So assuming Redcloak hasn't put any ranks in search (Clerics don't get a a lot of skillpoints)

And he's level 17-20 by now, at best he has a +10 to search and whatever his intelligence is.

Haley should be far better.


I also think another thing to note here - Xykon has Serini's diary.
That means he knows how she designed the dungeon - or at least he thinks he does.
So Team Evil has a false sense of security and are less likely to test all options.

Meanwhile, Haley has no idea what's going on, so she is always on the lookout for anything.