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Sep-03-08, 11:08 PM (Pacific)
1. "RE: Various Questions (please help)"
1. Bishops can learn every spell and make pure casters obsolete. I usually have two, Alc-Pri and Mag-Psi, that each has the spells I consider important. Of course they learn from all magic schools but it makes things easier to concentrate in two schools. It is perfectly possible to have only one Bishop, but it requires some training.

A Bard is much more powerful than in W 7, a must have. First time through you should have a Ranger to find all hidden items.

Then the choice is up to you. Rogues and Fighters can deal huge amounts of damage. Hybrids on the other hand help with spellcasting, Samurai seems to be the best fighter of them (well, I haven't used a faerie Ninja anymore).

2. See here:
http://www.flamestryke.com/wizardry8/flamestrykes_w8.html

3. Vi, for example is a Valkyrie. They do come ready, but you will have a full control of their development and acting.

4. You'll soon learn to hug walls... The first rule is not to let monsters surround you. The back row is usually spellcasters. Striking from behind means double damage and you want to avoid that.

5. Expert skills are built on attributes, STR etc. For example, you want to raise a magic user's intelligence to 100 to open up the resp. expert skill.

6. Right. I don't bother with cursed weapons. But a Bishop can repeatedly uncurse CoC and then your Ninja can use thrown weapons until the monsters close in.

7. You must change profession (a new character would lose much in statistics). I have changed a Ninja to Gadgeteer, since their skill overlap. No spellbooks, they resemble somewhat a certain McGyver. But their gadgets have spell effects.

8. You should have a pure Bard (class changing isn't what it used to be). Later, after level 18 you can consider profession changing.

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Various Questions (please help), GoatBoySteve, Sep-03-08, 08:17 PM

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