Status Chovus Sep 24, 2020
Beat. I did not get this game for free this year because I had already purchased it a couple years ago, but the fact that I did see it available for free made me want to play it soon. I made my guy start with 12 str and con, 8 int and dex. I put most skill points into melee …
Beat. I did not get this game for free this year because I had already purchased it a couple years ago, but the fact that I did see it available for free made me want to play it soon. I made my guy start with 12 str and con, 8 int and dex. I put most skill points into melee and defense, and a smaller amount in ranged and spellcasting. The early game was very exciting as I scraped by with a dagger, then a club, then a shortsword until finally getting the longsword. I used magic arrow sometimes. I hoarded everything and soon had too much stuff and wondered how much longer until I got to a shop. When I finally got to the town proper I ended up making a few trips to pick up every bit of loot and made my stash in the 4 barrels just below the entrance to town. I freely took everything that was out in the open and no one minded. Got a plate helm, tall shield, metal shield and some longswords, axes and hammers. I decided to go with a longsword + metal shield set up, the magic leather chest and chain legs I had found, and a hammer and dagger for backup. I used the dagger to kill rats to spare my sword and liked how the hammer only took up a single space. The plan was to horde weapons and repair them myself to cut overall costs. I did end up paying the smith to repair a few things though.
I followed the story and got a saber. By the time of the 1st boss in the cult temple my saber was in poor condition so I had to beat it entirely using a hammer. Also I had found enough runes to cast fire field and used that to completely wreck everything I fought. Reminds me of the good old days of Ultima Online as fire field was my go to spell as a newb. The lack of magic annoyed me. I had heal and armor in my book, but I was confused by the runes and did not realize until the late game that I did in fact have the runes to cast those spells. I also really wanted levitate and telekinesis because I seen so many places to use them, and instead kept notes on everything I could not get yet. I eventually got those spells and went around doing everything; got a full set of magic plate armor and a 2 handed axe, so I decided to go around like that doing the entire crypt, the final few levels of the world and killing my 1st yslide (nothing fancy, I cast speed on myself and ran away until his wore off then chugged healing potions). Liches were pretty annoying and I used the magic negate spell while killing them with the axe or saber; both of which seen a lot of use and had terrible max durability from my repairs. Near the end game I went around killing all the yslides, including the ones in the final area before I was even supposed to be there. I had 2 rings of protection with my magic plate for the best possible armor, that tall shield enchanted to be indestructible (that poor old metal shield had the same fate as my axe) and bejeweled or force longswords with poison applied. The best way I found to kill them was to set up my spells of paralyze, harm and lower armor. Paralyze them when they draw their weapon and that breaks their AI to cast speed, so they never cast it. Then just duke it out kiting backwards and stabbing until they die; takes about full mana. I managed to get 2 stuck; killing 1 with fire field and the other was below me and could not be hit with spells so I killed him entirely with archery. Otherwise I did not find archery all that useful, though I could have lured more to get stuck in that same place. I got Inut's sword and went around killing stuff with that, but I was disappointed that I never got to try it on any yslides. I then got stuck and could not figure out how to end the game. Need 5 stones to open the door. Where the hell is the 5th? I went back and forth to town and the cult places looking for it before I realized from a walkthrough that I was supposed to have enchanted the final weapon, which I had not yet done because I wanted to try out both the 2 handed and 1 handed variety. Go outside and get that done; settled on the 1 handed. Then fought the final boss. Only spell I used was magic negate and I drank a few mana potions to keep it going; also drank a couple healing potions. Was not a difficult battle.
My final stats and gear:
Level 9 (44000xp to go) 15 str (with +5 from armor) 15 con 10 dex 9 int 101 melee skill 117 defense skill (some of that is a bonus) 37 ranged skill 70 object knowledge 50 spellcasting (minor penalty from armor) Full yslide armor with Poxellis' helmet 67000 gold
I never put any points whatsoever into any other skills. I was not able to open most locks and was very annoyed that I could not smash them. Should be able to smash any locked wooden thing and at least a couple metal chests were small enough to pick up and carry back to town. I also had to check a walkthrough quite often to figure out what to do. There were a few other minor annoyances but the game is overall excellent and I would have liked more. Oh and I struggled to use magic because I suck at drawing straight lines with a mouse.
