🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: alt.games.diablo
Article #318

Re: Diablo - Phase Spell - It Can Be Very Important & Tactics, Help/Need Advice

#318
From: Ed Polanco
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00
40 lines
2341 bytes
Desslock wrote:
> 
> Susan wrote:
> >
> >         Well, read my lips one last time.  There was nothing I missed.
> > The wall I had to pass through was obvious.  Adria's phasing scrolls
> > were plentiful.  Phase _is_ random but after enough tries you can go
> > where you could not go before.  :)
> >
> 
> Sorry, still think you missed something :(
> There are certain areas which will not "open up" until you complete a
> certain action, i.e. pull a lever or read a certain book.
> 
> I've put a lot of hours into the game and never encountered that
> problem.  And no one else on this newsgroup has posted indicating that
> they ran into a dead end.  Considering the number of times the same
> basic questions get asked on this newsgroup - i.e. how do you kill the
> Butcher?  etc. if there really were areas which you could only reach by
> teleporting, this newsgroup would be overflowing with complaints and
> questions every time someone got lost.  Frankly, it would have been a
> poor design decision for Blizzard to have put in dead ends like you
> speak of.

	I encountered the exact same problem when I was in level 5 of the
dungeons.  I was stuck.  I searched my entire map for any doors that I
missed.  I looked for levers and books.  There were none.  I didn't even
think about using Phase.  I just started over.

-- 

Ed Polanco
esp...@psu.edu

---------------------------------------------------------------------
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
             Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
"Every man dies.  Not every man really lives."
             William Wallace, Braveheart
Technical Details
Message-ID: <32EC480D.64B2@psu.edu>
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <32e89ef1.26706651@news.concentric.net> <32E81CA6.4E09@interlog.com> <32E8CE27.3306@attila.stevens-tech.edu> <32e9b851.12904282@news> <32ed5db9.34400638@news.concentric.net> <32EB536E.5400@interlog.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
From: Ed Polanco <esp...@psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Diablo - Phase Spell - It Can Be Very Important & Tactics, Help/Need Advice
Date: 1997/01/27
Message-ID: <32EC480D.64B2@psu.edu>
X-Deja-AN: 212466430
references: <32e89ef1.26706651@news.concentric.net> <32E81CA6.4E09@interlog.com> <32E8CE27.3306@attila.stevens-tech.edu> <32e9b851.12904282@news> <32ed5db9.34400638@news.concentric.net> <32EB536E.5400@interlog.com>
organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
mime-version: 1.0
reply-to: esp...@psu.edu
newsgroups: alt.games.diablo,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit