🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 04 May 2001 01:50:25 GMT, Thrasher <spect...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
>What's got me pissed now at about the mid point in the game is that
>the weapons I have available to me cannot penetrate the armor of the
>tougher critters I have to fight. The best damage weapon I have right
>now is a stone battle axe made of obsidian. On a lucky role the big
>loud guy can do 2 or 3 damage with it to an orc that compares "Equal".
>Unfortunately, they regenerate so fast that that amount of damage
>vanishes before he even attacks again. I can't figure out what the
>hell they were thinking when they play balanced this game - some of
>these fights are unavoidable because the quest calls for you to kill
>an enemy.

	Are you using the Strength spell?  Are you aiming your
attacks?  Disabling an arm slows down an attacker big time.  A few
shots to the leg keeps those pesky archers from running off.
Headshots are triple damage (but have a -25% chance to hit, so up your
melee skill and go for head shots.)
	If you can't hack through someone's armor, either avoid them
or try to backstab them.  The only problems I had with bouncing off of
enemy armor were the black boars, and the veteran skeleton warriors or
whatever.  Had to run from those puppies.
	However, I will admit to saving before most every combat.
Many times I had to keep reloading to kill a quest character with a
backstab and a few headshots.  (Most notably traitor and the 3rd
ogre.)

	Overall I'm liking the game.  However, I dislike not being
able to retreat.  Mobs hunt you down w/o any stamina worries of their
own.  Since all quest destination/objects show up as great big
blinking red blocks on the minimap, it feels like you're being lead by
(mostly) intangible nosering.  And the magic system's offensive spells
(not enough damage, but mobs rip you a new one.)