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[yoga]

Tomekk

Bard
lvl 11
XP - 300 K
next - 440 K

Buna ziua, vecin, ce mai faci?

[yoga]

Paco the Great

Thief
lvl 11
XP - 300 K
next - 440 K

Fighter
Stopped

Guten Morgen, Gnadige Herr Paco.

[yoga]

The brave just finished Hand and started new project - DEN.

[kmonster]

Your commandos seem to be a bit vain, everyone is wearing non-magical rings, necklaces, girdles and other stuff around instead of selling them.

Paco is wearing plate mail which disables most thieving skills so you have to unequip it each time you want to disarm a trap, pick a lock or hide in shadows.
I'd give the magical studded leather from Tomekk's inventory to him, so you can switch it when you want to use his thieving skills (I'd even be too lazy to switch and have him wear leather all the time), his bracers AC6 are better used on Tomekk or Hungavy who get their spellcasting disabled by armor.

If a character is wearing both bracers and body armor/robes which set AC to a certain value only the better (=lower) AC is used, so you don't need those bracers AC8 for your fighters.

Be aware that Wicky will get a 40 percent penalty to hit if he uses his throwing axe in melee without switching its abilities, so I'd give a backup melee weapon to him.
4 of your characters are very brave to fight without a ranged weapon and Paco seems to brave to use backstabbing, he doesn't use weapons pure class thieves can use and therefore allow backstabbing.

Q: Did you find armor which is AC2 and offers additional 20% cold resistance in chapter 3 ?

[Tomekk]

Originally Posted by yoga

Tomekk

Bard
lvl 11
XP - 300 K
next - 440 K

Buna ziua, vecin, ce mai faci?

Nem vagyok román, bazdmeg

But I see I got a Flaming Sword, so the fact that my character turned out to be a wussy bard is now balanced out. *nod*

[yoga]

Hi, mates,
battling all the day in Den (Mage, I found the missing 4-th piece for astrolabe) and being Diploma engineer fixed the damaged device, have no time to see yr comments.
Now I visit AB, but my hand is trembles because of looooong usage. Ich bin sehr mude.
Excuse me , pls, tom. morning I will be inline and online to answer or ask you.
Merci, mon ...

yoga
the pride of the AB
humble but brave

[yoga]

@Kmonster

Dear Wizard, I did all recommendations You kindly suggest.
A: I afraid NO.
But can return to search it.
Well, some time I am before next dilemma:
I evaluate for example 2 tools.
First is +2 but let say 2800 GP.
Second is ordinary but costs 5000 GP.
So, the Q is what is better.

OFF
Excuse me please, do You finished the game Ultima 8 Pagan?
I started 7 times and always kaput, me the idiot..
(sob, sob)

@Tomekk

bazdmeg ?
Very polite, huh?

OFF
Dear Tomekk, I am informed that there are Hungarians who live in Romania.
Moreover, these men want to separate from Romania?
Maybe Your Majesty is from above people?

Very big presence of Hungarian Masters in AB.
and all hostile to one humble but brave person..

Kidding, Willy ...........

hahaha

the brave

Last minute Listing of my AC and HP
Wicky -5, 86
Scatty -4, 63
Capo -3, 64
Hunvagy - 1, 73
Tomekk - 1,73
Paco +2, 73
Note: All commandos used their magics.
In some cases I have so many weapons that I hesitate what to use.

Sposibo, comrades

[kmonster]

Originally Posted by yoga

@Kmonster

Dear Wizard, I did all recommendations You kindly suggest.
A: I afraid NO.
But can return to search it.
Well, some time I am before next dilemma:
I evaluate for example 2 tools.
First is +2 but let say 2800 GP.
Second is ordinary but costs 5000 GP.
So, the Q is what is better.

OFF
Excuse me please, do You finished the game Ultima 8 Pagan?
I started 7 times and always kaput, me the idiot..
(sob, sob)

The armor is a random item, chances are high you found another useful magical item after defeating Kaylessa instead. I didn't find any elven chain in my first game either, so don't worry.

When comparing the usefulness of items price is unimportant.

For comparing armor mainly compare the AC they offer, for comparing weapons mainly compare the bonus to hit they give and damage they deal average.
Then look at the special bonuses, an extra attack per round is of course far more valuable than a little bonus damage per hit for example. A chance to stun which doesn't allow a save can help a lot when fighting superior enemies.

There are monsters you need a minimum enchantment for to damage, you needed +2 for Yxunomei, +3 weapons can hurt everything, but there are only 2 fights in chapter 6 where you need better than +2 weapons.
Remember that for choosing the right weapons your characters' weapon proficiencies are more important than weapon stats.

When choosing armor remember that your thief can only use his skill in (studded) leather, your bard can only wear bracers and your mage only robes without getting spellcasting disabled (actually everyone can wear bracers but you'll find magical leather armor and robes with AC so low that bracers won't improve it).

OFF
I never played any Ultima game much. I tried Ultima IV twice because it was supposed to be a highlight but it's crap. I never bothered with Ultima 8.

[Scatty]

Ultima 8 is quite different from other earlier Ultima games though. And much more interesting and rich in game atmosphere than the latter, in my humble opinion.

[yoga]

[quote=kmonster;433596]The armor is a random item, chances are high you found another useful magical item after defeating Kaylessa instead. I didn't find any elven chain in my first game either, so don't worry.
When comparing the usefulness of items price is unimportant.
For comparing armor mainly compare the AC they offer, for comparing weapons mainly compare the bonus to hit they give and damage they deal average.
Then look at the special bonuses, an extra attack per round is of course far more valuable than a little bonus damage per hit for example. A chance to stun which doesn't allow a save can help a lot when fighting superior enemies.

There are monsters you need a minimum enchantment for to damage, you needed +2 for Yxunomei, +3 weapons can hurt everything, but there are only 2 fights in chapter 6 where you need better than +2 weapons.
Remember that for choosing the right weapons your characters' weapon proficiencies are more important than weapon stats.

When choosing armor remember that your thief can only use his skill in (studded) leather, your bard can only wear bracers and your mage only robes without getting spellcasting disabled (actually everyone can wear bracers but you'll find magical leather armor and robes with AC so low that bracers won't improve it).


Nah, every day I learn some news for RPG.
Your directions are as lecture for young RPG students.

I am surprised of the fact how do You, the Mage, the Master, my nice critic Hunvagy collected knowledge for every game I start.
Amazing.
Pls. note I know You and Master from 2006 years. Good old Lord X..

Bad news from battleground.

I am battling with some lich in Den which refuse to die, bastard. I sent 4 elemental (1 fire + 3 earth) plus 2 Skeletons, hit it with Skull traps and hack it with Axe of my leader and the monster dies 2 times and... yes, regenerates and again before me. Beat me with Animate dead.
The only defect of IWD is that I am forced to back 2-3 levels to find place to restore...
Sadly, last time it summoned special spell, unknown till now : It hits me with spell named - Urgent project to the brave and this way eliminates yoga to 14 September..
Rats!!!

Do You meet this spell? No solution...

I enjoyed v. much with puzzle here. 3 symbols..
Excuse me pls, do You helped me with the Chinese puzzle in Ultima 8 (some lifting up-down columns)? No, no..