From: rjk@iastate.edu (Russell J Kraemer)
Subject: EOB 1 help wanted (for hard cores only)
Keywords: EOB
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:03:04 GMT

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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.)

The problems are as follows:

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.

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.

3. My ice storms seem to be hitting me back... any one else have this happen?
   How can you stop it?

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.

5. Do you get any bonous for reserecting (sp) bones?  Other then having the
   characters?



And for the fun of it, for those wondering, the party I am currently
using is like this:

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?

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.

Firestorm: 8th magic user female elf
           second row, cast stoneskin before combat, acid arrows and
           fireball in combat.

Dr. Ruth:  8th cleric female human
           Your basic medic. Before combat casts prayer, etc, then cleans
           up afterwords.

Taghor:  The first guy I found, front row dwarven fighter.

Behoram: The paladin you find on the lower levels.  The other front row
         guy.

This combo seems to work real well, except on the last one :).

Got a better one? Lemme know.

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.


Thanks!




P.S. Anyone know when Software etc or elsewhere will be selling eob2 cheap?

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