JarlFrank
I like Thief THIS much
I have to admit, I never played the Gold Box games before. I got into the genre in the late 90s, and while I played old 90s classics then, like Might and Magic 3, Eye of the Beholder, some of the Ultimas, I never got into Gold Box because the interfact was a little too archaic for me.
That changed today.
I had a slow day at the office, my boss didn't have any tasks for me, so I installed DOSBox and gave the Gold Box series another chance.
And, of course, I'm planning to do it properly, by going all the way through from beginning to end with one party, which means Pool -> Curse -> Secret -> Pools.
I've already played for a few hours today and it's pretty fun. The interface is okay once you get used to it, and I'm using the Gold Box Companion to get that sweet sweet minimap and character health and XP bars.
I'm really in the mood for a good, no-bullshit dungeon crawl, so this is tremendous fun right now.
And, of course, as I plan to go from Pool to Pools, I'm wondering what party combination is good for this.
My party is:
- human male cleric
- human female cleric
- human male fighter
- human female fighter
- human female mage
- human female thief
Overall, a solid combination. No characters with really bad flaws (except for the female fighter due to strength capping at (50) instead of (00) but whatev), solid party for a full playthrough I think.
Or, well, I dunno. I think a second mage would've been a good idea to get some more spellcasting power in the later games.
Which is why I'm asking the knowledgeable Codexians: what's the best choices here?
Should I dual class any of my characters in the later games for extra versatility?
I took the thief because I read in a recommendation thread somewhere that having one thief is useful for picking locks and because backstab damage can become obscene on later levels. But right now, it's pretty much the weakest character - lower HP than wizard, can't wear anything better than leather... eh. Is the thief going to become better later on? How does she scale in the later games? Backstab bonus damage on max level in Pool is 4 times, does that go up further on higher levels?
What about spells? I already found out that sleep is overpowered as fuck on low level creatures. Any other really good spells I should take, and which spells are useless because some don't really seem to do anything (shield doesn't lower my AC, for example).
That changed today.
I had a slow day at the office, my boss didn't have any tasks for me, so I installed DOSBox and gave the Gold Box series another chance.
And, of course, I'm planning to do it properly, by going all the way through from beginning to end with one party, which means Pool -> Curse -> Secret -> Pools.
I've already played for a few hours today and it's pretty fun. The interface is okay once you get used to it, and I'm using the Gold Box Companion to get that sweet sweet minimap and character health and XP bars.
I'm really in the mood for a good, no-bullshit dungeon crawl, so this is tremendous fun right now.
And, of course, as I plan to go from Pool to Pools, I'm wondering what party combination is good for this.
My party is:
- human male cleric
- human female cleric
- human male fighter
- human female fighter
- human female mage
- human female thief
Overall, a solid combination. No characters with really bad flaws (except for the female fighter due to strength capping at (50) instead of (00) but whatev), solid party for a full playthrough I think.
Or, well, I dunno. I think a second mage would've been a good idea to get some more spellcasting power in the later games.
Which is why I'm asking the knowledgeable Codexians: what's the best choices here?
Should I dual class any of my characters in the later games for extra versatility?
I took the thief because I read in a recommendation thread somewhere that having one thief is useful for picking locks and because backstab damage can become obscene on later levels. But right now, it's pretty much the weakest character - lower HP than wizard, can't wear anything better than leather... eh. Is the thief going to become better later on? How does she scale in the later games? Backstab bonus damage on max level in Pool is 4 times, does that go up further on higher levels?
What about spells? I already found out that sleep is overpowered as fuck on low level creatures. Any other really good spells I should take, and which spells are useless because some don't really seem to do anything (shield doesn't lower my AC, for example).