Re: Legends - more questions

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 12:47:46 +0000

tw1t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Theodore Wadsworth):
>1 - What is the easiest way to increase skills (especially arcane)?

Find a high-level guild for that skill, transfer your character into
that guild, and practice.  Your percent chance of success should be
110 - (5 * current_level) + guild_level.  There's also a bonus if you
spend money.  (Anyone know how that works?)  I think you always have
at least a 10% chance (or was that 5%?).

Practicing outside a guild loses you the guild bonuses.  There's also
a chance of going up every time you use the skill, but it's not that good.

>2 - Are the different arcane powers realsonably ballanced or are there
>some that should just be avoided?

Some are better than others.  You should distinguish between setup and
subsequent choices.  For example, I set up with summoners, so that I
can start with spells like "summon familiar" and "gather special
resource", but I prefer to give my later characters seer, so they can
get free spell points by equipping seers crystals.  There are none that
should be avoided in all cases, because the penalties for being the
wrong arcane skill are fairly minor.  But some are specialized.  Eg,
I started a thief with illusionist so that he could go around invisible,
and I trained some weak characters as necromancers so they could join
a ruin-bashing expedition, standing in the back and casting Dispell Undead.

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Dani Zweig
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'T is with our judgements as our watches, none
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		--Alexander Pope

References

Legends - more questions
tw1t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Theodore Wadsworth)
Wed, 10 Mar 1993 06:43:00 +0000

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Legends - more questions
tw1t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Theodore Wadsworth)
Wed, 10 Mar 1993 06:43:00 +0000