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Nope -- Basilisk released for Windows first, Mac a month later. Ohtar is correct.

Poison and acid resistance are honestly not important. They are great if you have them, but they are not worth dropping points in skills that are holes. They do reduce damage, but not by that much unless you have a lot of them. Poison and acid are annoying, but easily neutralized by spells. And unless you have unrealistically high resistance, you will get at least some poison or acid and will have to use the spells anyway.

Immensely less advantageous, yes; but considering that the advantage of ranged in G3 approached infinity, that only says so much. I wonder if my differing opinion here is due to my playing on Normal this time around. Certainly I've said that to other Normal players often enough in the past...

Unless they pump Spellcraft to very high levels so that Str is far cheaper.

Correct.

Fire shaping was never really dominant. Cryoas have always been good, but with the possible exception of G1 when drayks and cryodrayks were the ONLY high level ranged attackers, magic shaping has always been a lot better than fire shaping. Vlish were broken in G3 and were also the best creation value in G2 -- nobody noticed because Parry was such an attention-getter there. And in G1, there was a good case to be made for using vlish and glaahks. In G4, of course, we all know that Wingbolts were the end of the story. Battle shaping is very good in G5, but it isn't hands down better than the other options -- even if War Tralls are the best overall creation, the lack of ranged attackers before 5th tier means that, even if it equals fire or magic shaping for a given tier, it certainly doesn't surpass them.

Look at the script, Randomizer -- you get a dialog option either way. It only forces you if you have 15. Assumptions are so easy to check...

Are you sure you tried it after using *fifteen* canisters? The script certainly looks like it forces you to attack.

War Tralls actually resist all sorts of damage, and they have one of the strongest missile attacks in the game. Gazers are *not* immune to mental effects, either, although they do have high mental resistance. Tralls have mental resistance too.

To clarify, the scripts do have item drop information, but only for generic creatures, not uniques.

I don't know about the ending (which is not in scripts), but there are only three places where the scripts check canister use. One is dialogue only and checks for 8 or more. The others are forced combat checks: at the Dera Bridge for 15 or more and in Outer Gazaki-Uss for 10 or more.

Yup. The stat descriptions can be a tad misleading at times. Battle Magic, Spellcraft, and training in the spell itself help with missile-like spells. (Items that give a flat bonus to hit also help with spells, I believe.)

I haven't gone there, so I don't know. That's why I'm asking. :-D

Something I've been contemplating recently. Is it possible to dash through the Depository in the demo, dropping Fyoras behind you to keep the golems away, and grab the Create Drayk canister at the very beginning? If so Drayks become an option for nearly any build. A Drayk you make at level 10, even with no extra points allocated to Fire Shaping, will be close to maxxing out on levels by the end of the game anyway; and of course it will be absurdly strong early on. At 60 essence, it's actually affordable enough to make early, too. While it will never quite equal a War Trall or Wingbolt in usefulness, it provides a nice secondary option.

This is true. The only time I've found the 2 Int unnecessary is in a very aggressive build that's stronger than necessary. For example, the Broken Vlish in G3.

Those aren't glitches. Unless an AI is capable of adapting to player strategy including from previous reloads, there will always be a way to exploit it.

Ah. I was just confused because you kept saying "better than ever before" and things like that. So I guess you mean, "better than in G4"

You don't bother to pick essence pods up? ...

No, but you can blow the bell to smithereens.

What have you invested your skills in?

Hey Syn - I take it you ended up going back and playing G1-3? What did you think of them?

However, you don't actually have to have JOINED a rebel faction if you have the leadership. Also, joining Trakovites will not work, just Astoria or Ghaldring.

Quothe teaches advanced creations (level 3 and 4 plus War Trall, I think) if you join Astoria and complete 1 additional quest. Ellek'Sss will teach to anyone if you have 8 leadership.

No offense, man, but you need to be a little more patient. If you're looking for instant gratification, this is the wrong place.

That's pretty normal for an internet forum. It's particularly normal here because the game was just released. A lot of people are here looking for information but really it's only the beta testers who have played through the whole game. For example, I didn't answer because I can tell you the factions but not treasure. The factions are: Astoria (peace) Alwan (war) Litalia (Trakovite) Sage Taygen (destroy all creations and start over) Ghaldring (Drakons)