🚀 go-pugleaf

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*

>about that mission where you have to kill whip aga and lash aga who
>have 360 hiptpoints and AC 26, with both attack and defense scores
>substantially higher than the player is likeley to have at that point


>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.

>
>Look, 500% of 0 is still 0, I don't understand this comment. You
>apparrently haven't tried this yourself. It's the same with criticals.
>It doesn't take an expert to figure out that if all you see is
>BACKSTAB 0 and CRITICAL 0 scrolling up the screen you better get the
>hell out of dodge...

	According to the manual, head shots do triple damage (they're
flagged as critical hits.)  A backstab + a head shot can work wonders
(as in that was the only way to kill a few of the tougher boss mobs.)
	head shot == triple damage
	strength = +30% damage
	backstab = 5x damage?
Put it all together and you can do a few one hit wonders.

>
>I'm guessing that you also lowered the game difficulty for both. The
>"demon" especially was difficult even at the novice setting.

	Only way I could kill the 'demon' was a strength spell, and a
backstab to the head (after half a dozen reloads.)
	I've played on Normal level throughout.