Hi Guy's / Gal's

I was bored one night , and was browsing the web. Came into this forum, read a bit about Wizardry8 treads. This game is simply a blast. Finish it twice now with different team layout. I just love it.

Then I read about Steath levelling on low level caracthers. Heheh Never though of that one. And let me tell ya , this works ! lol Not sure if i considere it a cheat or a exploit... but hey.. I finish the game on my onw a few times and only way you can solo or duo in da game. So , no biggy I guess. None of the post where a bit complete about it, so this is my experience.

I finish the game with 2 full group of 8 people. Was wondering if i could cut this in two. So , a group of 4. This is what I had in mind. War / War / Lord / Bishop . ( I'll miss my bard !!! ) Wanted to try something different, anyhow. I usually got monkies as they preatty much rock and i never tryed a meelee heavy group. Never played a Lord. Anyway.

So i tryed the Power levelling on stealth , creating 3 rogues and a ninja. 2 rogue will become warriors , a rogue will be the pick lock guy and lord. And the ninja will be the bishop.

Created my party , and started to venture in the Maze. Was trying to find low level creatures, was hard to do, as I killed the crab's in entrance. I was running out of healinjg potion as well , and that wasnt good, as none of my caracthers could heal. Was running around like achiken with no head. Dodging all fight's. Took me a while to understand that i was doing it all wrong, so i restarted.

This is the WAY to go i think...

Create stealth class caracthers , 4 of them or less if you want smallest party then create 2 priest. Priest as to be fearies, they got mana regen and extrta stuff to sell later on ;o)

Venture in the Maze till most of stealth class are level 3, then head back to entrance where the 3 level 1 crab are. Engage them, put everyone in front line but the 2 priest , and defence up, not attacking , just waiting. Heal if necessary with da priest's. When you are max out, kill the priest's. ( empty inventory , put them in front line ) And voila , heres a 4 member group ready for anything with thier steath maxed.

Anyway, just tough the priest idea was good , and wanted to share it with ya.

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P.S: I am french by the way , i hope i didn't made too many grammar mistakes on my post... ;o)

you'll have a little trouble later on when the 2 dead ones reduce your party level average, most importantly if you shop for Spellbooks at Crock--your 4 will have to be L16 if the dead ones are L1. This i know because i've done it.
It's a lot safer to let things that have ranged attacks shoot at you from max range, they miss more often and do less damage. I just ran a party of 3 through that bit, i waited 'til they went to L3 to make the change to Stealth-building so they had a few more HP, and ran to Burz for more Heals when it got too scary.

yes... it takes ages to get all of ones stealth up to 100, but its certainly worth it.

im running a 4 memeber party (no npc's) on hard mode and loving it.
all have 100 stealth: Lord, samurai, ninja and monk.
lots of monsters, lots of exp, lots of treasure, lots of ass spanking.

having 8 party members its too easy... and exp points are spread too thinly.

the way i did it was a shade unorthodox.
imported my party from wiz7 which allowed instant level up to lev5.
at 6, change characters to rogue for stealth.
go back to beach & train stealth.
at 7th level, change back to normal classes and continue.