Lair Larrikin
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Joined: Monday, 8th July 2013, 16:04
Some advice on Assassin
Should I use bat form when I explore new territory? Faster movement speed and higher stealth sounds to me like a good idea but maybe I'm overlooking something. I'm always at Bloodless or close to bloodless anyway so it's not like my blood is stopping me.
Armor penalizes stealth with the formula "-6 × (Evasion Penalty)^2". If I understood it correctly that's -96 stealth for a leather armor?
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Now I have a strength of 10 and Armour skill of 4 so my evasion penalty is just 2, not 4 when I equip it. So would it be correct to assume my stealth penalty is -24?
I think it is possible to lower the penalty even further, I've seen people recommend that Strength and Armour skills should be equivalent of the encumbrance rating of the armor. But does anyone know how much strength and or armour skill I need to only get 1 EV penalty? Or 0 if it is possible.
Another question I have about the assassin is what type of weapon I should use. Short blades obviously since I want to backstab enemies but daggers or short swords? I currently have a +5 +5 Dagger of protection (5 AC) but I found 2 new weapons in the labyrinth which looks interesting: +3 +2 Dagger of Defenstration {stab, rFire+} and a +3 +5 Short Sword of Draining. I have no idea what {stab} does. Does it increase my backstabs? It says "extra damage" on the info screen but not how much or if there is any requirements. For all I know it could just be 1 extra hp damage on stabs. So, what type of weapons would you recommend to an Assassin and which of the 3 weapons I just mention would you recommend to me?
Finally, I checked out the Enchanter class and correct me if I'm wrong but... What the f... It's basically an Assassin on steroids. It has pretty much the same skills, basically sneaky sneaky stabby stabby. But they start with a spellbook that has Ensorcelled Hibernation (put enemies to sleep), Confusion and Invisibility. And all of them are hexes which vampires has a +4 on. Why would I ever pick Assassin over Enchanter? Especially with a Vampire. I guess I lose my curare needles but they are not infinite and a +2 +2 dagger is not worth it. What does a assassin have over an Enchanter? Because to me they're basically the same class except that Assassins doesn't have spells which would be EXTREMELY helpful for an assassin.
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P.S. A bit off-topic but I just have to add a little rant about vampires in this game. First of all I find that from a gameplay perspective they're fine, as in balanced. Now I haven't gotten very far so my opinion may change of course. But something that just irritates me is that you gain more from being bloodless than "Alive". A vampire should in my opinion be at his best when he's full of blood and vice versa. You shouldn't want to be bloodless. Vampires should always want to drink blood, not "Oh, I shouldn't drink that delicious baby blood because then I could be poisoned and lose my cold resistance and not turn into a fat bat and I wouldn't be that stealthy anymore since everyone knows that mummified corpses are really stealthy, so I'll just starve". Yes, you can't regenerate health while you're bloodless, that's what you have old papa Makhleb for. And if that's not enough you can always drink a potion of blood, go heal up and then go back to starving again.
Now I understand what they're aiming for, basically a hybrid Undead/Human who is either Human or Undead depending on how much blood he has in him. That's interesting but not really a vampire in my opinion. Since to me a vampire is always undead and his power is directly tied to how much blood he has in him. Has any vampire ever starved because he would be more powerful then in any vampire movies/books? Anyway, that's just my opinion, feel free to disagree with it. Please don't take me for some kind of huge vampire nerd who thinks they exist and whatnot. It's just that I find it a interesting "monster". I find undeads in particular interesting in fiction. Brainless ones (who cannot think, no personality) are kind of boring though.