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Re: Diablo - Phase Spell - It Can Be Very Important

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From: ke... Ken Jordan
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:00
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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:37:27 -0800, Susan <Sus...@concentric.net> wrote:
>	Contrary to some comments about this spell, Phase, I have read
>one can use it to randomly teleport their character through a wall
>into another independent room that your character _may_ have never
>been in before.
>
>	Last night I was playing my Singe Player game and was presented a
>dungeon L5 with stairs into it but no stairs leading down to L6 or
>stairs leading up to the town.  However the auto map and two views in
>the dungeon clearly showed there was more dungeon I needed to reach
>somehow.  One location especially had a very thin wall between it and
>where my character was.  I kept buying Phase scrolls (for lack of
>nothing better to try) and the first 3 phased me to a different point
>in the same room.  The fourth phase moved me through this wall into
>the new dungeon region.  I was able to complete not only that dungeon
>level but also the quest I was on for the Magic Rock that fell from
>the heavens for Griswold and, of course, I found the missing stairs
>tool.
>
>	I am specifically pointing this out because most people I have
>read on the subject think the Phase Spell is useless or very limited
>in tactical purpose and this is a good example of a critical use.
>
>     * Susan * <Sus...@concentric.net>
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From: ke...@netserver.massmedia.com (Ken Jordan)
Subject: Re: Diablo - Phase Spell - It Can Be Very Important
Date: 1997/01/28
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