From: serge@dgbt.doc.ca (Serge Ah Hee)
Subject: Re: EOB 1 help wanted (for hard cores only)
Keywords: EOB
Organization: The Communications Research Centre
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 18:53:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug22.000304.16312@news.iastate.edu> rjk@iastate.edu (Russell J Kraemer) writes:

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>Okay all, my happy party of goody two shoes has made it to level 12,
>and the beholder is kicking my butt.  I have the wand of silvas, and before 
>the attempt I load my characters with everything (bless, prayer, stoneskin,
>giant strength potions, etc.)  I figure the problem is my characters
>are too low level to get it done. (most are around 7th level, one split
>class, if ya wanted to know.)
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>The problems are as follows:
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>1. There are areas on the dwarf levels with the spiders that I can not 
>   access.  I mapped carefully, and went up and down levels trying
>   to get in, no luck.  A glance at the hint book tells me that the
>   stone sceptor is in the area I cant get to, and it would help me
>   get to many areas that I need to hit for items and ep.  Does anyone
>   know how to get through the spider webs?  I only have one broken,
>   and even tho I can see through the web and see more spiders they wont
>   attack me.  The spells I toss at them dont seem to help much.
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>2. There seem to be level bonuses (sp) but I have not been able to hit
>   a single one of them....my first "test" party hit a few, but I have
>   no idea how.  I would welcome outright spoilers.
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>3. My ice storms seem to be hitting me back... any one else have this happen?
>   How can you stop it?

Your to close toyour opponent. That spell is long range only...
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>4. How are you supposed to use the wand of silvas?  Giving it to my magic 
>   user and having her use it dosent seem to do much except make the
>   beholder back up a bit, but he moves up faster then I can advance
>   on him.


You're on the right. Think of the beholder as a cow, and the wand as a
cattle prod. Use the haste spell.
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>5. Do you get any bonous for reserecting (sp) bones?  Other then having the
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>And for the fun of it, for those wondering, the party I am currently
>using is like this:
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>Phantom: 8th ranger human male chaotic good
>         mostly stays in the back row and fires a bow...can't seem to get
>         the two handed ability of rangers to work, even wearing a robe...
>         any idea how to fix it?
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>Finneas: 5th cleric/5th thief male gnome
>         another back row type, works for emergency healing, cant seem to
>         pick locks to save his life.  I'm planning on playing it
>         through without a thief and see what happens.  Stays in back
>         and tosses daggers.
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>Firestorm: 8th magic user female elf
>           second row, cast stoneskin before combat, acid arrows and
>           fireball in combat.
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>Dr. Ruth:  8th cleric female human
>           Your basic medic. Before combat casts prayer, etc, then cleans
>           up afterwords.
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>Taghor:  The first guy I found, front row dwarven fighter.
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>Behoram: The paladin you find on the lower levels.  The other front row
>         guy.
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>This combo seems to work real well, except on the last one :).
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>Got a better one? Lemme know.
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>Oh, and I want to clean this place out before I take these characters to
>EOB2, so anyway to keep the 4 primarys alive would be nice.
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>Thanks!
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>P.S. Anyone know when Software etc or elsewhere will be selling eob2 cheap?
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>rjk@iastate.edu                 
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>I think therefore I.......shoot, was I saying something?


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