Figgy

I started with Exile 2, and it made absolutely no difference imo. A lot of 1s story is explained as you play through #2.

I never once casted a manna spell outside chapter 2. Buying food was just so much easier than wasting time casting manna a bunch of times personally. and more enjoyable. But the spell does serve a purpose all the same if you need to save up that gold.

1 Fighter with some throwing skill. 5 Mage/Priests When you start the game make all your mage/priests pump as much possible stats into mage and priest spells as you can, you get bonus spellpower out of it. Wound is unbalanced, it makes casters far too strong. It's the main reason you can get away with having a full caster party without any reprocussions at all. Not only that but Bless with Slow Group makes your casters pretty much immune to all physical damage anyways. And if you really are in a pickle for some god-awful reason you can throw 5 charms in a row or 5 summons in a row for an instant meat shield, needless to say the danger fades veeeeeeeeeeeeery quickly.

Originally Posted By: The Mystic Here's my list of weird spells: Minor Manna - Almost totally useless. The most food I've gotten with this spell is about 3, as opposed to an average of 10 or 11 with Manna. Minor Mana was extremely helpful for getting past Chapter 2 in Exile 2, it let you skip a boss completely if you had an energy potion on you. Energy pot, minor mana, rest! Curse Solved, time saved!

Archery was completely useless in all of the Exiles. Why make an Archer when you could make another Mage/Priest? Doesn't make any sense.

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Well, I definately missed something because I went back and got the quest and completed it with 26 reputation. After completing the quest well after the slimes were long dead I was also now able to access Ice Lance level 3. Apparently Solberg won't teach you anything until you first get a reward from Arbuckle!! I still can't enter Erika's tower though even though I have her insignia... sigh. Maybe I should go read a huge FAQ or something to see what I'm doing wrong.

My reputation is only 22 and I skipped all of the Upper Avernum quests. I guess I should work on this then.

I have level one... but I did not pick up the quest. The Mayor did not offer it to me when I spoke to him before dispatching of the slimes, which I thought was strange but since I'd only played Exile 3 and not Avernum I assumed this was how things were. I also have rank 1 of the spell... but there is still no offer. Ah well I can only pray the rest of my game isn't buggy I suppose

I defeated the slime plague, but the mayor won't give me a reward and Solberg won't give me Ice Lances level 3. Did I miss something or do something wrong?

Empire archers don't simply have godly accuracy, they just cannot miss regular shots. Stuff like sancuary is a different story though It's like how magic never misses, unless you have something like an anti-magic field around you. Empire Archers never miss the ENEMY, though

The only plague I was quite confused by was the slimes. For being so pathetic, they did a lot of damage. The cockroaches were extremely understandable, the problem with them wasn't that they were destroying towns or that the soldiers couldn't kill them, the problem was that even a small bite could cause major disease. And that in the sheer number they couldn't kill them fast enough to make a major impact. Troglos and Giants were more than understandable, again it wasn't that they were too much to handle, is was more than they were on par with the strength of humans and the humans really didn't want to go to war with them. Golems - obvious Alien Beasts - Obvious On a note about the slimes though: One must realize that that far south area of Valorium got almost no support whatsoever, so that could have been a problem as even one soldier lost may have been huge to them.

Empire archers are a huge plus. For the fact that they NEVER miss, and aren't random. When you summon them, you know what they'll do and they'll do it well. And can you acually capture a Crystal Soul? I've tried before but always resisted, every single time. I figured they were immune to it.

Interesting indeed, Where is first aid when I need it? Oh, for good measure though, I'll have a person with level 1 priest spells and 50SP to cast ritual when needed

I'll try with the full archer team. One question though: Allowed to use poison?