A question regarding Cursed items.

[Nordoki]

I just discovered my Samurai has the sword Bloodlust and it is now a cursed item. Is there anyone who can help him remove this? Or uncurse it? I am not too far into the game and visited the temple at Arnika but cannot figure out how to ask Lord Braffit to uncurse something.

[Merulus]

"Remove Curse" is a fourth level mage or priest spell. Bishops also have the ability to remove curses as one of their special class abilities (it's the button marked with a cross). Other than that, though, you'd have to find or buy a scroll of remove curse... As far as I know, no NPC can remove curses for you.

By the way, don't assume that simply because something is cursed it's a bad item... Many of the best weapons in the game (including Bloodlust) are cursed.

[Wolfie]

Just a point, the "remove curse" just means you can then remove the cursed item, it does not actually take the cursing away from the item (there is no way to do that, since curses are usually added during the manufacturing process by Mean Buggers Inc [img]smile.gif[/img] )

[nekoshippo]

Bloodlust sword is very good sword used by SAMURAI, and another good sword for SAMURAI is rarely found in WIZARDRY8. So, You should use Bloodlust sword, and do not worry that sword is cursed. Many cursed items in WIZ8, Bloodlust sword is only few useful items.

[Nordoki]

Ok, points well taken. Thanks for the help and advice friends.

[dale]

I had put my bloodlust sword away (along with the poisoned daggers) because they prevented my character from switching between ranged and near weapons.

Based on what I have read, I just gave my Samurai bloodlust and a poisoned dagger --- and will let him focus on magic for ranged weapons. He has gotten fairly good with an energy blast. I hope that next level he'll be able to get a fireball spell.

[Annheiser]

Well this is sort of OT but I need to make a comment about Bloodlust. I picked it up and gave it to my Lord to dual with a Poisoned Dagger at the time and discovered it blew chunks for my game.

I can understand the usefulness of having the Berserk effect and gives an extra swing, but I miss a boatload of times. I'm not talking half or two-thirds, but really I miss about 75 to 80% of the time and that just doesn't cut it. Maybe it's just my game. I had my Bishop decurse him, and had him switched to a Diamond Epee instead and even though he's swinging half as often, he hits more often. Shrugs.

[Nordoki]

I agree Annheiser. That was my primary concern. It wasn't until I kept seeing how often he was missing that I thought I would change his weapon. Then I discovered why his arrow supply was not depleting.

Bloodlust has it's merits, but I still prefer to have him hit more often and be able to shoot from a distance. With a Samarai you have so many choices of what to develop with skill points that the magic had been overlooked. My bad in that regard. shrug

[Grungepopp]

I agree on the issues with Bloodlust. I keep wanting to make that darn blade work, but I get so frustrated missing all the time that I just can't do it. I had one battle where my samurai attacked 5x twice, and missed all 10 times. I ask you, what's the benefit of that? I'd rather use a short sword and hit 6 times than use Bloodlust and never hit at all. Granted, my samurai was only 8th or 9th level at the time, but with a sword skill already over 50, I find it highly annoying that she missed 90% of the time. If my math is correct, you need to hit at least every other time to make double damage worthwhile, no?

[GenXCub]

My Samurai is Level 12 and he's had Bloodlust since about level 6 (ish). One thing I can say is that he almost NEVER misses. I think one of the reasons for this is that he doesn't use a secondary weapon. Remember, if you're using any secondary weapon, you get severely punished in the Sword Skill category. If your sword skill is up to 50, even if you had 100 in dual wield, it'd be treated like it were only 25, worse than that for lower dual wield skill. I personally don't have any of my characters dual wielding, my Fighter is using Demonsbane with an Aqua Shield. It's not as much damage as a Flamberge, but it's faster initiative and I can use the shield.