Cael
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1. Yes. It implies farming. But not as much as you'd think. Random encounters in the wilderness can drop anywhere between 1 to 99 gold, and your gold and food limit is 9999. The kind of monsters you kill doesn't matter in gold generation, hilariously enough. Kill rats and spiders for 89 gold? Yes, please! There are, of course, legit tricks you can use to get gold fast, but I won't spoil it for you. Some of them are pretty meta. Now, something for you to look forward to: Magic wands cost 5000 gold each.I dunno. I need a lot of gold, so I've been tackling combat wherever it happens.
Also, I was using blink to avoid trap tiles. But I found out It was more cost effective to just cure poison.
Combat is mush easier when using only ranged weapons - Magic Axes, Wands, and Bows. Equip a crossbow on Geoffrey and a sling on Katrina.
Been doing that. At first I was spamming fireballs but wasn't profitable. Yet, I think have a couple guys in close combat is not a poor idea either.
Magic Wand? Magic Bow? I haven't found any towne that sells that. Also, I figure this implies farming gold.Some tips:
1. When you start out, equip everyone with a sling. Ranged weapons beat even the best melee weapon by several orders of magnitude. Towards the end game, you should have the following weapons:
- Magic Wand on the bard, druid and mage (best weapon in the game, period)
- Magic Axe on the paladin and tinker
- Magic Bow on ranger
- Crossbow on fighter
- Sling on shepherd (the only ranged weapon she can use)
Yes. Enemies usually don't inflict that much damage either. Balrons are the most dangerous foes I found so far, mostly cuz they spam sleep.2. Don't fret about armour. It doesn't really help all that much and towards the end, you get the best armour for free. Concentrate on weapons and kill the enemy as fast as possible.
3. Get the shepherd first if you are aiming to level up your companions for the final dungeon. She has the worst attack rating bar none, and therefore needs the most amount of chances to gain levels. Alternatively, start as a shepherd to get all of the quest XP and let your companions kill everything. It is probably faster this way, but your main character is really going to be gimped unless you have that glitched magikarp version of U4 that allows you to use all weapons and armour once you become the avatar of the 8.
I'm still looking for the shepherd (pls don't tell me where is). I was in Magincia and only found demons and hints for a silver horn and the rune(which I already found).
4. Pay attention to the goal of the game. U4 is NOT your usual "murder the final boss and win" game. Think things through logically. The virtues form a framework that makes logical sense and your actions have logical consequences.
AFAIK, following up what NPCs told me, killing anything isn't the main goal but read certain codex within a place called the stygian abyss.
I've noticed dungeons are the opposite values of a virtue: WRONG, DESPISE, COVETOUS.. At least the ones I found. Those are always nearby of townes or shrines of the virtues they antagonize?5. EVERYTHING in the game has a logical place. That includes the names of the dungeons and where they are placed. I am not kidding. Garriott went ultra sperglord for U4, and went even further for U5 (look up the "meanings" of the Words of Power).
I've been taking moongates wherever opportunity arises.6. The moongates follow a logical pattern, and knowing how they work and where they go will save you a lot of time and frustration. It would also make things that are usually inaccessible available to you (e.g., Moonglow, Skara Brae, Magincia, even Jhelom after a fashion).
There's a NPC called Merlin and the Balrons are clearly based upon Balrog.7. Watch for cameos and sight gags. Garriott pulled a Fallout long before Fallout did.
2. Better than U7 onwards. There, armour doesn't absorb damage, but it becomes like armour class (i.e., helps you avoid hits). U7+ battles can be absurdly lethal if you have a run of bad luck.
3. Hint for the shepherd, if you want it:
You went right past her.
4. You goal is to become the Avatar of the 8 Virtues. That is not spoiling anything as that is the name of the game itself. Now, think what it means to be an avatar of something.
5. In a word, yes.
6. Taking them and understanding how they work are different things. The two moons govern where they appear, when they appear and where they send you. Find the pattern and you can always reliably go from A to B.
7. There is a hell of a lot more. Keep exploring the towns.