🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 11 May 2001 04:10:24 GMT, st...@home.com (stoic) wrote:

>On Fri, 11 May 2001 02:43:38 GMT, Thrasher <spect...@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>This is all good advice in the combats where you can do damage to your
>>opponent. But how about those missions that call for you to kill an
>>ogre and the best damage your weapons can do against their AC is 3 or
>>4 and they regenerate that away before you ever even see it? Or how
>
>	Had to land several lucky headshots on the ogre to kill it.  I
>did too little damage and it regenerated too quickly for a standup
>fight to work.  I also cast strength on myself and weakness on the
>ogre.  And reloaded a lot.  *grumble*

I had an entirely different experience there - after getting the quest
("You want me to kill WHAT?" :-) I sent the party over just to see how
badly they would get their faces mushed. To my surprise, they managed to
beat both Byr and Gym first time, with relatively little difficulty.
Utundry and the Demon went down with backstab-criticals, so I have no idea
how they'd stack up in combat - I may reload an old game later and try it.
Personally, I thought the lake lizards were far more annoying.

>>in the game? Or how about generic veteran orcs, even, when your bone
>>long bow and obsidian axe will rarely do better than a 0 aganst their
>>armor?
>	Weakness and strength.  And/or backstabs to the head.  I was
>also using a green dragon bone spear.
>	Attacking their weapon arm also worked.  Damage to an arm
>slows down attacks.

I think that taking out a limb may also reduce a creature's defensive
rating. Not sure about that, though.

>	I've played on Normal level throughout.

Same here.