Hi killerTeddy,
What's changed wow! Where to start try NPC's spells items encounters monsters
NPC's Several new npc's (I haven't tried half of them...) eg a umpani thief who is for hire on the starting beach - he's 8th level gives you an idea of mod. Theres also a rapax samurai (with a polearm?) a faerie valk and a trynnie lord - no seriously, Vi is a mission to get to and you'll most probably be closer to 12th lv when you get there. Myles is a th/gadgeteer you find him in the starter dungeon and RFS is in arnika
Spells Major overhaul, spell domain changes (superman is now divinity)class spell lists changes -power to the priest! a few interesting new spells and spell levels changed - tsunami in now 5th! might to magic is 4th Most importantly mages have changed they can learn ALL spells but use NO books! - the side effect of this is wiz bishops can learn all spells and still use books! balance their obscene xp
Items all new system more extended swords (and axes?) more sp regen thanks Deathstalker! returning thrown weaponary new gadgeteer stuff changes to the bard eq - not so great
but still good to play changes to most of the existing stuff the SOD is a demon slayer! and samurai's need a pie of 65 grumble
Encounters hee hee you walk around the corner and hit the shift Q ! no not that bad but some serious changes almost all major areas have been modified, there hostile adventuring group by burz, the upper monastery (you know those nice brigands, not so nice anymore) arnika road thugs , rogue leader and arnika of course major bad ass group waiting for you there. He mixes the mobs up so there some mages, a summoner (you know that lovely ability of al seduxes well Deathstalker put it to use!) a few fighers and a cheesy rogue or two really good work and a lot of thought went into them.
Monsters rogue leader is a mob! Small gripe (not really a bad thing) I ran into a rogue leader and the 9th lv brigands on 5th level! Yes I ran like hell Still its common to be seriously out gunned good thing ds dropped portal to 4th - theres also several high level good npcs to help you out liberally sprinkled
The only major flaw is wizfast needs to be installed and you have to take a chess like aproach to the game, some of the combats can take hours - by the umpani base camp these a mass combat between 14 thugs and about twenty npcs and your party, thats why I suggested to loudhy to take them on a bit later nothing worse than spending three hours slogging it only to backfire a toxic cloud and oh well hit the load button. Another thing you may have gathered is its flippin difficult and this is on normal. Suggest (though I'm sure you have) to finish the standard game first. The other thing is DS isn't big into hints so you'll fight street corner to street corner only to find that kick ass weapon you know is in that cave requires a piety of 65 - yes I am bitter [img]smile.gif[/img]
My opinion hit the download button and let the carnage begin!
Cheers
Saridu