Re: Legends: which status is best and what do they do? Also NIC question

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1993 21:43:32 +0000

dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick):
>I will shortly have the option of making some or all of my characters
>Blessed of Shanah (my religion).  Questions:

>1) Are religion status trees good?
>2) What does the Enchanted tree look like?
>3) What does the character netherworld tree look like?

If your characters are going to see a lot of combat, you're better
off getting any status early, rather than a good status later, as
all statuses give nice bonuses once you've morphed a few times.

That said, you may want to give your priest Blessed status (some spells
and other priestly things may depend on it) and wait on one of the other
statuses for your other characters.  Netherworld characters have major
combat bonuses, but advance slowly.  Enchanted isn't as combat-oriented,
but does better on influence.  Vampyre is very nice, but it's hard to
get, advances slowly, and is susceptible to many anti-undead spells.

>4) Can you lose a status once you find a better one?

Some statuses can 'overpower' others and replace them, yes, but I
don't know what the specific rankings are.

>5)  What is the best status tree in normal games?  (I dunno if this
>	 will apply in the North Island Campaign.

See above:  The status trees are much alike at the top rungs, so getting
to the top quickly is better than waiting for the right status to come along.
IMO.

>6) I am running an adventurer party, with some help from an Overlord...
>   and have found few "easy" lairs to take out.  We've got mature dragons,
>   lesser balrogs, etc.  Where are these gyger things, anyway?

The half-gygers are probably occupied with eating the heroes and
adventurers who've tried to attack them.  Yes, the monsters and locations
are a lot tougher in NIC, and you probably want to scout them before
committing yourself:  Have your Overlord friend attack with one soldier
first, and look at the battle report.

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References

Legends: which status is best and what do they do? Also NIC question
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Mon, 08 Mar 1993 20:08:30 +0000