My fighter with Excalibur can hit paralyzed monsters for just over 200 damage!! He had a rather dramatic drop in damage output, but then I noticed he still had the canezou dagger equipped. I had to fight Nessie many times but it finally came up.

If I ever finish wiz 7 I'll import the avenger (which I have from Bane)...hehehe.

Anyway, I'm having great fun on expert level. I'm finding more things, like for example raven rapax dropped a bushido blade. It wasn't as good as bloodlust I thought, but still good. I also found things like prospero's cloak and puck's cap early on, and more recently the ring of beasts a maiden head and some other things I'd never seen before. Seems like ramping up the difficulty brings out some cool items.

Cheers,
Carcophan

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IIRC. The Avenger does not Import from Wiz7 to Wiz8.

Thanks for the tip. It went from 6 to 7 so I just assumed it would go from 7 to 8. I haven't beaten 7 yet so I don't know about transfer rules.

Thanks again,
carcophan

200 a hit is nothing. Rogue on paralyzed opponents, high level and high combat skills regularly does 4X and sometimes 5X. With *Light* and max Strength, that's sometimes over 350 PER HIT. And with the speed factor (big -5 on X-Cal; +7 on *Light*) i know i get more swings, even dual-wielding. And i don't go through Stamina like a Fighter on Berzerk.

Sure, the rogue is great too. Right now my Samurai is using the light sword but I might switch to see how the fighter does with it. I haven't used the rogue for a while but I seem to remember getting 2x more often than 4 or 5x. How does that work? Usually I just stick him with two thieves daggers which you can get pretty early. That works great for the whole game.

cheers,
carcophan

P.S. I'd like to find a thieves dagger in Wiz 1. Maybe next trip into the dungeon!

well, starting with we were talking about a KO opponent (which confers an extra X)...
As your combat skills and Rogue level increase, you start to get higher multiples anyway. Around L16 i started noticing on normal opponents getting 3X more and more, as my Close and Sword skills increased, it happened more and more often, and became more common than a mere 2X. I'm not sure if Powerstrike helps, because all my Rogues have gotten that fairly early, so i don't have a control to test against.

Have tried a Lord w/Anguish? Max so far is, I believe, 402 on a Rapax Berserker. If you want to start LLana's mod, MAKE SURE you have someone who can use this@!!