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Article #318Re: Diablo - Phase Spell - It Can Be Very Important & Tactics, Help/Need Advice
From: Ed Polanco
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00
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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
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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