*The Adventurers' Guild

Pain in the ass to beat Tarjan's hordes without the Geomancer's offensive repertoire, though

Yes. Yes it was. My entire party, except for my thief, was dead after just a few rounds. Once Tarjan was dead by my thief's blade, he was the only one available to pick off the rest of the Mad One's horde ...

Even assuming I can find a Shadowshiv, my rogue hit rate is really bad; he has I think only three critical hits in his whole career. Part of this is that the battles are really small in BT3--usually less than four monsters to kill, so if he spends a round hiding, there's nothing left for him to ...

My personal favorite:

Paladin (Geomancer)
Hunter
Bard
Rogue
Archmage
Archmage
Chronomancer

Paladins survive instant-death attacks slightly better than Monks. The Hunter is almost guaranteed to get a kill every round in melee, saving the mages some SP. The Bard, Rogue, and mages are of course ...

tpth wrote:You mean the riddle for Segment #4? No, you're right, it's a strange riddle. It took me a while to work out when I was young, and I'm a native English speaker.

To solve Snare #2, you need nospin ring.
To solve Snare #4, you need wait until google invented.

Okay, before I switch to playing Tales of the Unknown (for awhile), I'm simply going to share my latest gameplay status/update. Note this is simply gameplay, not testing! Please share yours as well!!

Have 3 characters: Bard lvl.16, Monk lvl.12, Paladin lvl.5. Still gathering items from dungeons ...

thanks, for some reason I thought it would be possible to become an Archmage with only knowing 3 of the 4 other spellclasses.
In that case I think I will go
Co -> So -> Wz -> Ma
Ma -> So -> Wz -> Co
with my casters and and 'grind' some levels to get more SP before I'll eventually turn them into ...

Bill wrote:I got the Segment 2 of the wand, but it does not lower the AC of the character that enables it. Anyone else ever had this problem?

in apple II version, it lowers your AC by 4 !
so that an archmage could be put in front line!
however PC version sucks

The Automap is nice, but it isn't really all that usefull since it doesn't remember anything you have explored once you leave the dungeon and come back its all wiped clean again :cry:

Oh, it's now 2012, just use a digital camera or screen capture software to "remember" the automaps, hurray~

Oh of course these spells won't work in grey crypt,
But they would definitely work in Oscon's fortress, or other later dungeons
with high-AC monsters extremely hard to be hit

If your bard's too busy playing , let spell VOPL, MAGA, OGST help fighters do their job

Fighters definitely can hit monsters in Grey Crypt, just need some buff.

In fact, it's part of the game design, basically in the later dungeons, it is no longer mindlessly attack or casting offensive spells. however,
The player need to concentrate more on inter-class cooperation to defeat monsters ...