> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 23:22:24 GMT
> From: "Lim Dul" <sevendegrees@...>
> Subject: stuff
>
> I'm going to answer several posts at one time here to conserve your
> bandwidth. :) I hope you can follow:
>
> -- thanks for the Cazic maze directions. Sounds freaking scary for now
> hehe. I don't like the 75% odds...especially with my slow old legs.
> Lim'Dul cannot run like he used to. I think I'll be safe and take the
long
> route around by way of my own 2 feet heh.
Fair enough. Just for the record though, I followed the
levitate-then-teleport directions several times now without a problem. The
suggestion to have another mage invis you while you teleport is friggin
clever though. My hat is off to whomever thought of that one.
> -- AE spells. I've tried playing around with them under the advice I
heard
> here. Still not working that great for me...I don't know if I'm just not
> targetting the right MoB in a fight. Very little damage quite a bit of
time
> to cast. I'll play with it a bit more.....
AE spells may get better as time goes on. Dunno. What I do know is that at
lvl 31 I don't keep them memorized all the time, and when I do, I use them
infrequently. Say, 5 or 6 times an evening. You have to let the situation
create itself and not try to force it. Last night, for instance, I was down
in the king room in runnyeye (Borxx hunting) where most of the stuff is
green. The room usually isn't that big of a deal, but sometimes 5 or 6 mobs
pop at once (or wander through). I only cast the AE spell about . . . oh .
. . a dozen times. But each time I hit for over 300hps total. Once or
twice in the 400 range. Which is pretty good mana efficiency for a spell
that only costs about 135 to cast. Oh, and I never once pulled a mob to me
(not that it would have mattered much in this case).
At any rate, the AE spells are a good suplement, but they will never be as
generally useful as your primary DD lines. I only advocate AE spells
because most wizards fall into the trap of assuming they are useless. They
are not.
> -- Leatherskin. I don't leave home without it. :) Yes, expensive as
hell.
> But I value my hide.
I go through 10 to 20 bloodstones a night. I personally find that
retrieving my corpse even once is more frustrating than the 10pp it costs
for my daily habit. Be careful casting it though in the middle of a fight.
Mobs hate it. :)
-Glyphin