Might and Magic The Might and Magic Discussion Thread

[Grampy_Bone]

With the world of enroth mod--is there a way to get widescreen and hardware acceleration in MM6? Also the UI seemed to change and get messed up from quitting and restarting the game.

*edit* nm figured it out

 

[grimer]

just curious which combat system do you guys prefer to play mm6-8 in? i feel like the games were designed around rt mode but it really trivializes a lot of the combat in the early to mid game when you can just dodge spells and kite enemies with arrows. also some of the spells dont seem work in tb mode i think (e.g. crowd control spells)

 

[Cyberarmy]

I mostly use RT for clearing basic mobs, outside areas. TB for dungeons and harder monsters.

 

[jackofshadows]

RT all the way with some rare exceptions (the dwarf dungeon ambush in mm6 for instance). I used to switch in TB often but RT is more fun.

 

[Desiderius]

Unfortunately for whatever reason RT seems far more powerful. Had to give up IX run when RT obliterated everything while TB on the same foes was high risk.

 

[lukaszek]

depends on party and whether you require some heals in given fight.

If you are in auto attack or auto cast sparks mode(yes, whole party), then obviously RT. Im sure that my playthroughs were 99% RT

 

[Invictus]

I mostly do TB, feels like the game was designed to be that way from the development and then someone at the office played Doom, RT can be exploited in so many ways like jumping over enemies, flying to get out of the way of spells etc
I am in the Werewolf lair right now and holy shit everything seemed to be going ok and the boom attacked by like 30 werewolves at the same time; no way you can do that in RT

 

[Efe]

So finally truth comes out, RT is easier.
TB is the monocled answer

 

[J_C]

When the enemy is stronger and my characters might be in danger, I use TB to be able to direct my attacks more efficiently. When I am overpowered and just mowing down enemies, I'm using RT.

 

[jackofshadows]

flying to get out of the way of spells etc

Ackchyally, this exploit works in TB as well. Shooting enemies from afar is way better in TB, speaking of difficulty. Kiting in VI-VII is also better in TB by u-turn every time you move away.

I don't mind TB but lack of movement option in VI is sad.

What RT is far better in general is dodging and last time I played VI-VIII had a lot of fun using range parties which are squishy and essentially must rely on RT dodge in order to survive.

 

[Efe]

once you fly, you just kite up/down while in tb

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

Turn based for me. I hardly ever use real time, it feels more like a shooter than a RPG. I have little love left for arcade games.

 

[Storyfag]

TB all the way.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

Storyfag I know, it's probably too late, but my party reached Alvar (in hopes that master merchant there would not require 50 personality to train and these hopes was crushed) and almost every fucking house offered to peasant in my party a conversion into Dark Elf. So I guess you can make a mm8 class from peasant.

 

[fantadomat]

lol playing mm games on tb,sad
Clearly storyfag is too old and decrepit,shame that he won't live enough to see SOON happening .

 

[Efe]

having vampire/elf skill as martial class when you have 1 mp from meditation is so pointless... I guess they didnt balance that part at all...
you dont get sp from int/per either and focusing on it means gimping yourself thoroughly

1filemods under extras makes races a lot more meaningful though some races getting 3 ranks is a bit overkill

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Is there a means of boosting elemental protection beyond Day of Protection, Protection from Elements, shrines and permanent boosts in WoX? I just did the Volcano cave, but I couldn’t reach the demon/devil spawn points without party wiping from the lava, even with teleport manipulation. I don’t remember having that much trouble doing so on previous playthroughs, but perhaps I just did it after some Darkside content. In other news my party is now level 19 and I’ve completed everything Cloudside except the Northern Sphinx, half of the dragon cave, and Castle Xeen (and all the locations tied to Darkside of course). I think I’m just going to do Castle Xeen right now since I don’t have any chars that meet the stat requirements for the loot in the other locations.
Darkside here we come!

 

[Storyfag]

lol playing mm games on tb,sad
Clearly storyfag is too old and decrepit,shame that he won't live enough to see SOON happening .

Life is for the weak.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

In MM6 I had the option to change to MM6 classes (plus Thief for some reason) in all the starting trainer houses for the first day or so(?) then it disappeared. Any character could change to any of the classes. I didn't level up but maybe it vanishes once they are past a certain XP threshold.

One thing that annoys me is enforcing MM8 skill limits, so you need a dragon for ID item grandmaster and Minotaur (?) for merchant GM.

 

[Efe]

for me change class dialogue only appeared when I had a peasnt in party.
if you dont like skill limits go to extras folder and use other the one inside 1filemod folder.
that lets you combine human (1) + sorc (3) for gm item id

or you could edit class skills table (gamefolder\data\tables) yourself. grayface has txtedit which saves your eyes from bleeding on notepad

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

So..... when is the MM1-9 mod going to be made?

 

[fantadomat]

In MM6 I had the option to change to MM6 classes (plus Thief for some reason) in all the starting trainer houses for the first day or so(?) then it disappeared. Any character could change to any of the classes. I didn't level up but maybe it vanishes once they are past a certain XP threshold.

One thing that annoys me is enforcing MM8 skill limits, so you need a dragon for ID item grandmaster and Minotaur (?) for merchant GM.

Yeah i wasted 30 points on wizard thinking he would get gm in IDItems. Was really pissed off. The class system is really broken,they should clear up and generally remake it. Make a clear differentiation between class and race. Make the races affect your attributes and make classes affect your skill mastery. Now it is total mess.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Minotaurs make great merchants? Who knew? If only Theseus had known.

 

[Storyfag]

In MM6 I had the option to change to MM6 classes (plus Thief for some reason) in all the starting trainer houses for the first day or so(?) then it disappeared. Any character could change to any of the classes. I didn't level up but maybe it vanishes once they are past a certain XP threshold.

One thing that annoys me is enforcing MM8 skill limits, so you need a dragon for ID item grandmaster and Minotaur (?) for merchant GM.

Yeah i wasted 30 points on wizard thinking he would get gm in IDItems. Was really pissed off.

The glorious Necromancer master race scoffs at filthy Wizard peasants.

 

[fantadomat]

In MM6 I had the option to change to MM6 classes (plus Thief for some reason) in all the starting trainer houses for the first day or so(?) then it disappeared. Any character could change to any of the classes. I didn't level up but maybe it vanishes once they are past a certain XP threshold.

One thing that annoys me is enforcing MM8 skill limits, so you need a dragon for ID item grandmaster and Minotaur (?) for merchant GM.

Yeah i wasted 30 points on wizard thinking he would get gm in IDItems. Was really pissed off.

The glorious Necromancer master race scoffs at filthy Wizard peasants.

Ohh the amount of liches i have killed,you just another one that needs to be made in to dust.