Wizardry The Wizardry Series Thread

[Hobo Elf]

BTW, the OP was complaining about how hard Arnika road is... I'm assuming he's talking about a segment of Arnika road that's AFTER you get to town? Because I had no trouble getting to town at all.

Nah, I was talking about Arnika Road. I had no problems with Arnika-Trynton Road. By the time I got there I had learned the essentials of survival in the game.

 

[Castanova]

Ah, yeah. I got hammered by that group of 5 bandits with 60+ hitpoints myself, especially since the two wasps attacked me at the same time.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Yup, them and those Creatures (that had about 100+ HP, I think) were pretty hard for my party. The bandits kept dodging all my attacks and my casters didn't have any AoE abilities yet so I got thrashed pretty hard.

 

[Monocause]

I've started again, with a standard "try everything" party:

Dracon Warrior
Felpurr Samurai
Human Bard
Elf Gadgeteer
Faerie Mage
Elf Bishop

Bishop is planned to be an all-round spellcaster. Right now he's only mindstabbing and healing everyone, and casting light when he can to pump up fire realm a bit, but when I'll get to Arnika, he hee.
I wonder, is it worth the effort to train the Samurai in spellcasting or should I just stick to weapons and criticals?

Edit: Castanova, I may be wrong, but wasn't there a terror spellbook in the Monastery?

 

[Hobo Elf]

Shit, I'm completely lost in the game right now. I have to get to Bayjin to get some co-ordinates for the T'Rang, but I haven't got the faintest clue how to get to Bayjin. Anyone wanna help out?

 

[Jaesun]

http://www.tk421.net/wizardry/wiz8maps.shtml

 

[Darth Roxor]

holy motherfucker, I just spent like half an hour fighting a single mob of piercer modais.

this game is so fucking awesome. I kind of needed a good dungeon crawler for a while now.

 

[theverybigslayer]

Sometimes the Dark Savant himself have to go to the bank as well.

 

[Thrasher]

Yeah, soon you'll be wishing to find the teleporters. Make sure 2 of your chars have the teleport spells and make use of the teleporter nexi.

And it is awesomeness defined.

 

[DraQ]

Shit, I'm completely lost in the game right now. I have to get to Bayjin to get some co-ordinates for the T'Rang, but I haven't got the faintest clue how to get to Bayjin. Anyone wanna help out?

Ask around. If that fails, check the map.

I wonder, is it worth the effort to train the Samurai in spellcasting or should I just stick to weapons and criticals?

Normally yes, but you do have a mage.

BTW: Usually, if you have a bishop in your party, it's better option to take a second one instead of a specialist spellcaster - equalizing the load pays off.

 

[Castanova]

Edit: Castanova, I may be wrong, but wasn't there a terror spellbook in the Monastery?

If there was, then I feel like a moron. Oh well.

 

[Thrasher]

Don't, it is well hidden.

 

[DraQ]

There doesn't seem to be any.

 

[DraQ]

holy motherfucker, I just spent like half an hour fighting a single mob of piercer modais.

this game is so fucking awesome. I kind of needed a good dungeon crawler for a while now.

(emphasis mine)

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

theverybigslayer, why don't you make a "let's play" of your weird and seemingly modded "all ninja" wizardry game ?... instead of spamming the wizardry 8 threads with those incomprehensible screenshots.

Since you obviously want to show off, might as well go all the way.

 

[Monocause]

There doesn't seem to be any.

Ah, it seems that it's random:

Spoiler

http://www.flamestryke.com/wizardry8/flamestrykes_w8.html - in the spellbooks section it is noted that sometimes it is placed in the starter chest

And damn, now I want to start again. I've no idea how did it happen that I haven't thought of having two bishops instead of a bishop&mage combo. I'm also thinking about switching that kitty Samurai to a doggy Lord.

 

[sqeecoo]

Samurai are simply not very good since mage spells revolve around offense and offensive spells are useless unless you max int, and if you do, the samurai is useless in melee.

In a 6-man group, a pure class always outperforms a hybrid (except perhaps monks and fairy ninjas), but if you don't need another fighter a lord/valkyre is always useful.

Also, extended weapons are better than dual (unless you focus on really heavy melee). You need to move around less, which is quite significant, and your casters in the second row are protected even if the enemy has extended weapons too. You do less damage, but you end up doing more since you lose less turns to moving or killing everything in range while still having attacks left, and your casters are absolutely safe and can cast more offensive spells instead of protecting themselves while facing monsters with extended reach.

 

[DraQ]

And damn, now I want to start again. I've no idea how did it happen that I haven't thought of having two bishops instead of a bishop&mage combo.

Two dual-school bishops beat a specialist caster and one triple-school combo. Quad-school bishop will eventually become very powerful, but that's after sucking balls for most of the game.
If you can afford two casters and want one of them to be a bishop, make the second one a bishop too.

I'm also thinking about switching that kitty Samurai to a doggy Lord.

Lords are cool and atmospheric, but they lack some trait that would give them some edge over vanilla fighters:

Samurai are fearless, rape everyone with swords, can use katanas, crit enemies and lightning-strike once in a while.

Monks can hammer everyone into bloody pulp while blindfolded with their bare hands and feet, resist damage and they land crits too.

Rangers single-shot baddies dead from miles away and find all the concealed stuff.

Valkyries rape everyone with phallic symbols and refuse to fucking die.

Lords... uh... look cool in shiny armour, fight well with two weapons at once (but due to the nature of this skill they won't dual rape more than anyone else) and slowly regenerate HP. HP regeneration is neat as it helps use some cursed gear, unfortunately, most of this gear isn't too useful for dual wielder and it's effects can be offset by some other items. Dual wielding bonus is good - early on. Other than that lords are rather plain - basically solid straightforward fighter-priest hybrids, except they don't regenerate stamina, don't KO people and can't berserk, unless you use certain awesome cursed sword, but then about any class - like bard, rogue or samurai - can, except that rogue can berserk and backstab at the same time (don't ask), samurai can lightning strike and crit while berserking and bard keeps being generally awesome (other than falling down a lot).

I'm not saying that lords are bad fighters - quite the contrary and they are atmospheric as well, but I'd keep the Samurai and teach Draco joys of dual wielding and blunt weapons (offhand

Spoiler

diamond-eyes

), or get kitty rogue, give him/her

Spoiler

bloodlust and thieves dagger/ dual thieves daggers

and ouch while watching the bloody rape unfolding.

 

[Luzur]

i never liked those bandit gangs that patrol Arnika, got jumped by a gang coming out from the bank once after doing some robbering.

 

[Thrasher]

You can always run away or into a armorers shop to give them a surprise.

 

[dan32]

Hey first post :D

Im going through wizardry 6,havent played it for a long time and i forgot about the CC (carry capacity) bug,not one of my characters can handle the rope and hook and carry the gear they use to fight.

I came to this site through a google search for an editor and i found CosmicForge_UNICODE
But try as much as i like i cannot edit the stats for CC,i can view them but thats it and the most frustrating part is i can edit just about anything else in the game except my characters.

Im sure a few of you mustve played wiz 6 and maybe some have had the same problem as me.

Really hope someone can help :S

Dan

 

[Luzur]

http://www.tk421.net/wizardry/files.shtml

check here.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Although I must say I was disappointed by this infamous road to Arnika. Either I'm uberawesome or it's seriously overrated. I had a party with the average level of 6, didn't read any hints about gameplay on the kkkodex, and if I wanted, I could go to Arnika in like, 5 minutes having only two encounters of some ants and bloodvines which were piss-easy, but when reaching the actual city, I decided to backtrack in search of phat loot, and my treck kind of ended a while later when I met some level 8 lizard thingy with 300 hp that was chewing up my party members in two hits and had to retreat, while in the meantime the road got repopulated by some mobs of bandits and the modais. Bandits were piss-easy, modais kind of needed the right positioning and it took shitloads of time to dispose of them, but I wasn't really on the edge of defeat either.

I expected something that will make me RAGE!!!! like every 10 seconds or so, but this? Pffff.

 

[Luzur]

did you meet that bull-thing yet then? got my ass handed to me by that.

 

[Luzur]

on the second gang i didnt have too, the smith came out on his own wierd enough.