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Originally posted by jfunk:
Man, I don't know how in the heck you guys can possibly beat nessie that easily. What are you using to do 900+ damage in 4 rounds?
My lvl17 fighter wouldn't even do ANY damage to her about 85% of his hits and I still don't know why. He was using Bloodlust.
I don't understand how you guys do so much damage to her and avoid taking damage from her. Hell, her spells would kill in one hit half the time, and about 20% of the melee hits she got on me caused a swallow. Either you guys are partially full of it, or you're just very lucky.
j
OK.
Giving a bloodlust to a Fighter is not a very good idea. A fighter already berzerks naturally, its better to give him a demonsbane or something more powerfull if u got it.
My fighter uses demonsbane and Diamond Eyes. level 18 he was i think.
But the most important thing u can do on ur first round with nessie is this.
Well let me just tell u what i did.
Bishop cast a level 5 eye for an eye on my feable minded fighter.
Priest cast level 7 silence.
Ranger shoot her arrow
Fairy ninja drink superman
samurai drink superman
Fighter drink superman
Then i cast stuff like haste, soul shield,armormelt,dehydrate....etc.
my melee guys keep hitting till nessie died really fast.
And no its not pure luck
yes this is a hard game.
But unlike what most people might think, a real CRPG take some aquired skill to play well.
Just like games like Counter-strike and Starcraft take some skill so does this.
Im sure other veteran players here prolly guys like vapra, have picked up certain skills from playing other games of this genre.
Always cover every part of the map.
Always use as much of your magic as possible if it helps you grow faster.
Always use your worst ammo for ranged attackers. save all good ammo for the late game unless you absolutely need it.
Use the weapons u are training in even if u pick up better weapons.
Then when u get to a boss battle switch to the better weapon.
Always keep ur party supplied with the potions or powders that used for emergencies or big battles than might pop up.
Ohh dont waste those potions and powders,. use ur spells instead and save those items for important battles.
Save your money.
Go slow.. take your time.. so u dont miss secrets or hints.
Write important shit down. Damn i remeber when we had to not only right down the hints but also graph the dungeons as u went so u could get out afterwards.
specialize as much as you can. even if u end up picking the specialty that isnt the best at least you will be reall good at a few things and not mediocre at a lot things.
Try to play big battles like if you were playing a strategy game. move by move.
ohh and never play in easy. your charachters wont develop all the way.
Now of topic.
Wouldnt it be cool if some other publisher made an online expansion that let you pit your party in a battle against other people's parties.
To enter the fight you would have to put in an item that your party had, and the other party would put an equally valuable item. and the winner takes the item.
Like a giants sword for a mook ranger.
traded for
Cane of Corpus for a fairy ninja.
or
spiders silk
for a
venom crab shell
hehe.
I dont have any RPC's either.
I try to always have each of my guys carry some superman potions and ressurect powder.