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all...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Allen) wrote:


>So I started a local IPX multiplayer game for my level 18 Warrior (with
>maxed out Magic and tons of spells) to travel through solo, building up
>stats before tackling the Caves and Hell.  I encountered several Goat
>Shrines.  The first four Goats Shrines ALL LOWERED MY MANA PERMANENTLY!
>This really pissed me off.  My mana went from 71 to 55, always with
>messages like "Intensity comes at the cost of wisdom".  Has anybody else
>encountered such Goat Shrines that all do the same thing?  After that, I
>was afraid to try any more Goat Shrines that I encountered.  I can't
>afford to lose any more Mana, and I don't know of any Shrines that will
>increase it back up.  

There are at least three types of shrines that give you
perm-mana-loss.  You just had a bad run, like rolling snake eyes 4
times in  a row.  Very unlikely, but it can happen.  Just be glad
you're not a mage, I hit two of those in a row once and wanted to cry.
But, like anything that's just random luck, there's the good times,
like when you hit one of those Enchanted Shrines as a mage, you wanna
dance and shout.  Calculated at the witches outrageous rates for
books, an enchanted shrine for an experienced mage can be worth over
200K in gold and untold hours  of hoping to find (or see for sale)
some of the rarer books like golem and bonespirit.  A definite boon to
offset those nasty perm-mana-loss shrines.