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I just whacked the Ratkin guy and he didn't have the Cane. This after I've stuck with a fairie ninja wielding puny sticks in anticipation of getting the Cane, and a dumb Thieves dagger drops. I'm just going to use an editor and add it to my party, but it really annoys me how completely random they made the drops. If you make a party and because of random luck you get a great weapon you can't use or you get a crap drop, I guess it's just tough luck. I remember in Wiz 7 the drops were fixed, which were guarded by some hellacious mobs like some 1000-eyed bugger, a huge serpent, etc. It was a great incentive to have as many different melee classes as possible to use all the cool weapons down the road. Some retard making Wiz 8 must have thought it more "challenging" to do the random deal. Well let me tell you this bastard: it just pisses people off after fighting a big mob with an underpowered party (my guys are 12th level on my 2nd trip thru right now) and to have a completely crappy item drop instead. If you want powerful items hard to get, then crank up the mob difficulty, don't leave it to some random number generator. The same goes for the pickpocketing patch, which I figured out works likes the Civ 3 reloading deal where the programmers used fixed random numbers to prevent people from reloading their games if they lost a battle. Enough people complained about the Civ 3 feature that they went back and made it optional. I sucked up the pickpocketing patch and went the potion-making route on this 2nd trip thru, but this random treasure deal is infuriating. I hate using editors because it feels like cheating, but I already invested too many hours to restart.
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