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Just browsed through the different arcane spells at the spell reference yesterday, and noticed that True Sight has a listed duration of 10 turns. This is completely false in my experience. In my current solo-the-game-without-reloads project I have naturally have had to go through Imp Ilyich more than a few times, and I've become quite familiar with enemy usage of TS due to Zhivago. In short, I've never actually counted how many rounds it lasts, but it's nowhere near a 100. I'd assess that it lasts 15 rounds at the most (1 turn would be a fair assumption), same thing with the arcane version of the spell.
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04-04-2003, 09:19 AM | #2 |
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Yep - you are correct - True Sight lasts exactly 1 turn (= 10 rounds). Will be reworded in the next version, thanks.
How's the solo-no-reloads project going? I'm trying one myself, actually - with a F/M/T. Improved Ilyich is almost too tough... But despair is still far away. [img]smile.gif[/img] The F/M/T seems like the ideal no-sorcerer character for this kind of game. 100% MR + Stoneskin hardly fails. [img]smile.gif[/img] Sorcerers are still too boring.
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Things are going pretty slowly actually, I've probably restarted at least 15 times, and the furthest I've gotten so far is about 4.5 million XP, then I died to a Greater Command cast by a Spirit Troll But I keep on trying and my current attempt has just completed everything up until the Bridge District and has about 1.3 million XP. It does get sort of frustrating when Prebek surprises you with a Charm spell cast at speed 1 (saves of 5 gives it a 90% chance to fail) and forces you to restart yet again, but it's fun, reminds me of Diablo II Hardcore mode like I said before, just a hell of a lot tougher and more random. Imp Ilyich is for me beginning to become a routine job, I follow a pretty strict procedure which takes three naps to complete the dungeon You want some help with it? [ 04-04-2003, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: Rataxes ]
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Huge post coming up Alson, just wait and see
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Thanks. Eagerly waiting.
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IMP ILYICH WITHOUT RELOADS FOR DUMMIES
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Wow, thanks... that's almost too much! [img]smile.gif[/img]
Will try as soon as i have the time. I'll let you know.
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Fulcrum / Ages + Crom or something will probably be my final setup. I'll do the Ages +5 vs. Fulcrum math someday. [img]smile.gif[/img] We'll see how it goes, but that's the plan for now.
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My initial plan straight out of "Chateau Irenicus" has since I began always been to go on a huge thieving raid in Waukeen's Promenade, stealing every single scroll with a selling price of over 200 GP. Not only does it earn me loads of XP (usually around 300-400k) and gives me a plethora of useless spells in my spellbook, but I also get enough money to buy both the Robe of Vecna, Dak'kon's Zerth Blade and the Blade of Roses. Mind you, I didn't cheese with stacked thievery potions and stealing-reselling to black market dealers to accomplish this I began pumping Pick Pockets as soon as I had gotten the minimum scores I listed in my previous post, it was at 90 when I got out. Gloves of Pick-Pocketing, DUHM and a Potion of Mastery Thievery bumped that up to 165, which is more than enough to pick-pocket anything in Waukeen's Promenade. The only cheese I've resorted to since I began is the Shield of Balduran against beholders. Twice I've experienced, the painful way, how dangerous Beholders are even without their rays. 3 APR, great THAC0, deadly poison. I died twice to their bloody poison and I was dumbstruck both times, then I got my act together and got a Spell Shield memorized and PfP scroll in my backpack My plan altogether has been to act as a fighter with thieving abilities and spells merely as back-up. Stoneskin, Blur and especially Imp Invisibility has proved invaluable against spellcasters. Never would've dared to do the Planar Prison with it's numerous packs of Yuan-Ti Mages if it hadn't been for that spell. In the later parts, Mislead made some encounters push-overs. Especially once I learned to make the decoy invisible and get 15 rounds of free and relentless backstabbing. Made the huge batches of Spirit/Giant trolls in the Druid Grove/D'Arnais Keep fairly managable
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