From: nad@tegra.com (Nancy Durgin)
Subject: Re: HELP: Wiz7 (spoilers)
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:27:06 GMT

In article <740@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> bkssmith@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (BKS Smith) writes:
|>Okay, I just got this game. I took the cellophane off...now what?
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|>Here's the real questions, with possible spoilers:

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|>1) I found the chest with the dead guy in it at the bank in New City. 
|>   Should I keep the Death Shroud and Poison Dagger? Identify says they
|>   are cursed but I don't want to get rid of them if they are needed
|>   latter in the game. BTW, is a cursed item necessarily a _bad_ item,
|>   or does it just mean you can't unequip it?

Some cursed items are very useful -- use Identify to find out.  One big
advantage is that when you switch classes (say from a class that could use
the item to one that couldn't), the item stays equipped.

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|>2) Someone who had only gotten as far as finding New City mentioned
|>   a guy named Rasputin. Should I have met him by now? (I've searched 
|>   through quite a bit of New City , have met Brother T'Shober, have 
|>   mapped the whole forest between the orchids and New City, and have 
|>   been to Orkogre Castle).
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He's a wandering NPC.  As far as I know, you can run into him anywhere (or
somebody else may already have killed him...).

|>3) My characters were all level 7 or 8, so I have started changing
|>   professions (my thief became a ninja).  Of course, when you do this,
|>   your stats go way down. In the manual it says something about
|>   (paraphrasing) 'your mage turned fighter may appear to have poured 
|>   his brain on the floor, but as he goes up in levels his stats 
|>   will improve'. Now, does this just refer to how your stats go up
|>   every time you increase a level (as it did before I even changed
|>   professions) or do the stats of characters whose professions have
|>   changed go up faster?

They go up at the same rate.  But the character will go up much faster
because your party is facing higher level monsters, so it won't take long
to get back up to 7th level.  You can also save/restore before battles
where you will go up a level, and keep trying until you get decent stat
raises.

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|>4) Whenever you go into buildings in New City, you seem to be attacked.
|>   Does killing these attackers affect your relationship with that
|>   race?

Nah..  At least in New City, you can kill anybody that attacks you, without
worrying about it (as long as they're not an NPC, in which case it's 
probably not advisable, at least in the beginning of the game).  

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|>5) Can the Bless spell be cast _before_ a fight, or is only effective
|>   while in combat?

I'm very curious about the answer to this, too.  There are lots of spells
(Bless, Air Pocket, Fire Shield, Ice Shield, etc.) that don't put up any
symbol when they are cast.  Is it useful to cast these outside of combat?  It
seems like quite an oversight for the documentation to make this clear.


	Nancy

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