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[kmonster]

Don't buy resurrection stuff, at the moment improving your characters with better equipment and more spells from books so they don't die is more important. I always reloaded when a character died, if you really want to play on after one character dies you can still run to a merchant afterwards, you'll also find items which resurrect during your travels and later at least 3 of your characters can pick the resurrection spell.


Easy difficulty is not good. You meet less monsters and gain less XP. But you want to gain as many XP as possible so your characters level up and get stronger.

[yoga]

Originally Posted by kmonster

Don't buy resurrection stuff, at the moment improving your characters with better equipment and more spells from books so they don't die is more important. I always reloaded when a character died, if you really want to play on after one character dies you can still run to a merchant afterwards, you'll also find items which resurrect during your travels and later at least 3 of your characters can pick the resurrection spell.


Easy difficulty is not good. You meet less monsters and gain less XP. But you want to gain as many XP as possible so your characters level up and get stronger.

Jawohl!

Your statement for Easy diff. is correct.

But there is a problem which confused me.
Have i buy spell Knock-knock for every jammed door? It costs 900 GP.
I did some preparations for my party i tried again. But maybe some betrayer informed enemies and now appeared not Fat rat only but 5 Killer rats more!
Rats!!!

I want to show my progress and press Ctrl+F5 to capture screenshots.
Again i do not find where is this *.png files. Normally they are in: some time in Dos Box folder, some time in the game directory.
Now i have no mounted Dos Box. The game make some bat file incl. DosBox. No these files in \Programfiles\Oldgames.
Dos Box Status window shows:
..Capturing screenshot to capture\wroot_020.png
But where are this capture\wroot?
Keine Annung!

I am mude and will do capture as neanderthal man. Print screen.

[yoga]

I need only 370 XP to up my level to 5 for Mage, Priest and Bard (5000 HP).
MONK NEEDS 5500 HP. Ninja 6000 HP.
pls pay attention to my moment status

I use mainly mouse with KB.

Note: The first 2 images are doubled image of CAPO.
Later i will add KMONSTR image. TY

[Scatty]

Uhh, only 8 Speed & Dexterity for Brave the Fighter. That's in dire need of improvement - Dexterity improves your chance to hit and armor class, Speed makes you often make your turn before the enemies & before other characters if they have less.
You really should work on these two, not only for the Fighter but for everyone. Save before getting enough experience to go up a level (watch closely how much experience you have), and reload if Speed & Dexterity won't be both improved. I guess it's the same as in Wizardry VII, so it's random what will be increased when gaining a level. For the Priest it's not as important since he probably attacks from the rear line, but still very useful later on.

About the Rat of Doom - I also guess it's the same as in Wizardry VII, so when you encounter the battle a random number of enemies turns up. The higher the difficulty level, the more can potentially appear. Just re-load the game until you get only 1 rat, though more rats (IF you can take them on) are more experience.

[kmonster]

You uploaded 2 pictures of CAPO.

For CAPO the bard you can buy leather leggings and leather boots if you want and a leather hauberk, the BRAVE was wearing one at the beginning, if you still have it give to your bard, else you can rebuy it.
The BRAVE can get a little better leg armor by buying leather leggings too.

Sell SCATTY's shurikens or at least put them elsewhere. Keep both his hands empty and let him fight sometimes. Else he will never learn how to fight with hands&feet which is essential at higher levels.

The healing potion in TWILL's left hand doesn't offer any protection and you don't want to throw it at your enemies in combat. Buy a buckler shield and put it there for 1 AC bonus at all 5 body parts.
You can buy a skullcap for his head and buskins for his feet.

On the long run PACO your monk has to train hiding in shadows and use his hands&feet to fight tougher monsters. At level 3 monks and ninjas attack more often if they fight without weapons, so better put the bo away.

Use the leftover money to buy spellbooks.

The copper key can be used to open jammed doors in the starting level.

[kmonster]

About the hidden screenshots: Just do a windows search for the folder "capture" and you will find it. My dosbox screenshots are in
"C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\DOSBox\capture"
since I have a German Windows version.

[kmonster]

A reason why you are having a hard time in the beginning is that you have characters with lower than 12 speed (so less attacks) and dexterity (so less swings per attack). Your party is optimized for the later parts of the game when you will have raised those stats. If you reload after a bad level up stat raise as Scatty suggested you will reach higher stats and get more powerful faster.

If the BRAVE manages to raise dex to at least 10 and spd to 11 at the next 5 level ups she can switch classes to Valkyrie and both use all the best weapons/armor and cast spells.

[kmonster]

Originally Posted by yoga

But there is a problem which confused me.
Have i buy spell Knock-knock for every jammed door? It costs 900 GP.

Don't buy Knock-Knock scrolls. Don't ever buy spell scrolls. Buy the Book of Knocks from Quee, give it to the mage and have him learn the spell from it, destroying the book in the process, just like with the book of direction. If he doesn't have any earth (green) spell points yet, let him pick one green spell (like armor shield) at the level up.

[yoga]

On the long run PACO your monk has to train hiding in shadows and use his hands&feet to fight tougher monsters. At level 3 monks and ninjas attack more often if they fight without weapons, so better put the bo away.

Use the leftover money to buy spellbooks.

The copper key can be used to open jammed doors in the starting level.[/quote]

It is KMONSTR missing image.
Sry, i was sehr mude last night.

[yoga]

Originally Posted by kmonster

About the hidden screenshots: Just do a windows search for the folder "capture" and you will find it. My dosbox screenshots are in
"C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\DOSBox\capture"
since I have a German Windows version.

But i have NO DosBox installed!