#Lightning Bolt
Posted: Thursday, 25th April 2019, 09:22
Warning; this is a sort of rant.
I don't know about you but electrical resistance is hard to find. I sometimes have a potion or two of resistance. I'm fighting some wizards and then suddenly, one of them knows lightning bolt and shoots at me from across the room. Yes, I could have; used a scroll of fog, right clicked on him to learn what it had, or drank a potion of resistance, just in case. But I didn't because I was five hours in to the game (not in one session) and felt, just for a brief moment, I didn't have to neurotically check everything. The wizard in question could also see invisible. My Armour class was 34 and my Shield Class was 41 (with enhancements from the shining 1)
I was in the Crypt at Level 23 (4 away from human max) with two runes, facing off against a random Ancient Lich.
Sigh... I just wanted to beat this game for the second time. I have only ever beaten this game once playing as a Vinestalker fighter. Winning as a human would put the cherry on the cake of my human fighter walk-through. I have lost to random lightning sooooo many times. Whenever I get a scroll of acquirement, I only go for jewelry, in the hope I get something electrically resistant. I could suggest that game mechanically, lightning could, instead of being it's own element, have a high chance of paralysis. I don't know how that would affect the balance of everything else though.
Is there anything else I can do to make electricity less scary? This is really bumming me out and I'm gonna have to take a long break from this game.
I don't know about you but electrical resistance is hard to find. I sometimes have a potion or two of resistance. I'm fighting some wizards and then suddenly, one of them knows lightning bolt and shoots at me from across the room. Yes, I could have; used a scroll of fog, right clicked on him to learn what it had, or drank a potion of resistance, just in case. But I didn't because I was five hours in to the game (not in one session) and felt, just for a brief moment, I didn't have to neurotically check everything. The wizard in question could also see invisible. My Armour class was 34 and my Shield Class was 41 (with enhancements from the shining 1)
I was in the Crypt at Level 23 (4 away from human max) with two runes, facing off against a random Ancient Lich.
Sigh... I just wanted to beat this game for the second time. I have only ever beaten this game once playing as a Vinestalker fighter. Winning as a human would put the cherry on the cake of my human fighter walk-through. I have lost to random lightning sooooo many times. Whenever I get a scroll of acquirement, I only go for jewelry, in the hope I get something electrically resistant. I could suggest that game mechanically, lightning could, instead of being it's own element, have a high chance of paralysis. I don't know how that would affect the balance of everything else though.
Is there anything else I can do to make electricity less scary? This is really bumming me out and I'm gonna have to take a long break from this game.