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The remakes limited the use of food as cheap, quick healing. It makes it worthless to keep collecting food and only bandages and wine (ingredient later on in the game) are sellable versions of food.

Raw Adaptable Spores can be used with healing pods to make restoration pods or with healing spores to make restoration spores. The limitation in the game is the number of raw adaptable spores so you should be able to find plenty healing pods, healing spores, and wine.

I know from a bug fix comment that Jeff plans to remake the rest of the Geneforge games. I assume he has ideas for a QW3. game but maybe he's going to do Avernum Second Trilogy games as his alternates.

Probably. Jeff likes to alternate between series.

Eko Blade was in Kazg in GF1-Mutagen.

You talked to Brodus Blade back in Freegate and East Medab.

Only the factions require being modified. Phariton (advancd creation), KLayos in Hermit's Crossing (Leadership 5) (high level spells), and Gaas (Outer Gaza-Uss) (highest creations and spells) all will do unmodified character.

You need to go through the dialogue options on his research to get one where he tells you about a machine to let you be trained and gives you a pass to the room in the south zone corner with the machine. Go there, step in the circle, endure the pain, and you can go back to get trained in advance stuff. Welcome to Spiderweb Software. Please leave your sanity at the door. It's totally useless these days,

If you want a horror story, while fighting the spinecores all 4 final test creations wander over to join the fight. Time to reload.

You don't even need to disrupt the machinery if you start a fight by a gate either through an attack or raiding the Radiant College. The enemy trickles in so you don't need to fight more than 3 at most and usually only one.

GF2 shows the split in the Takers to eliminated the crazed cultists driven mad in order to use magic. Tuldaric's research has ended the need to keep them around, You basically see the start of a more centrist approach to everyone but the Shaper and those that act like Shapers that don't respect creations. So you are tolerated, but will have limited power in the new Taker order.

Edit - No canisters and Loyalist not joining a faction. Can do all but in Gaza-Uss the Drakon Master, Dyx, and hasn't checked on the Many Eye Beams. Mental magic above 1 for daze isn't worth it as much as in other games. Dominate stops being useful too early in the game unless you can use it enough to make them fight amongst themselves. In the later areas almost everything will resist both. For torment difficulty where you need that little extra health for some boss fights. Evasion only helps for single target attacks and lots of things automatically use area attacks. My level 15 solo guardian was without items: Strength 5, Intellect 2, Agility and Essence Mastey 3, and Endurance 7 Missile and Melee Weapons 9, Quick Action 3, and Evasion 5 Blessing Magic 4 Healing Craft 2 Leadership 6, Mechanics 6 Then from equipment: Crystaline Plate - Healing Craft 1 Guardian Cloak - Missile and Melee Weapons and Quick Action +1 Gloves of Spell Mastery - Intellect and Spellcraft 1 Gazerskin Boots - +1 Blessing Magic and Spellcraft At level 20: Strength 6, Endurance 10 Melee Weapons 11, Missile Weapons 10 Blessing Magic 5 Healing Craft 4 Puresteel Plate replaced Crystalline Plate Fyoraskin Cloak replaced Guardian Cloak since I now face more fire damaging creations in the Taker Lands All Protector shield for +2 Evasion Purestel Charm - +1 Strength Spellstone - +2 Spellcraft Skein of Wisdom - +1 Intellect Blade token - +1 Melee Weapons

Fire or magic are best for range attacks while battle is meant mostly for melee fighting. Iron claw bugs and rotghroths at least have some range area effect attacks and more resistance and health to keep them alive. Fire is probably easier for a creation class for guardians and agents since it costs less in skill points and essence usually. Id you can afford it magic does have benefits with acid attacks, buffing vlish and eventually gazers.

There is some mandrake and infernal residue in chests in different zones if you take the time to look around and have enough mechanics to get past obstacles.

I've played a solo guardian through a complete game 5 times on torment difficulty and it's better than original games because of weapon shaping. One key thing to do is buff your character before a fight if you can or use rod of battle and the first two weapon shaping skills to buff your character in combat. With heavy armor they can survive more damage than the other classes. It cost a lot of skill points to get most of the blessing magic spells, but they are still worth it even though they don't last as long as for an agent using spellcradt.