Must forge items Options

[Mongerman]

Thought I'd start a thread discussing must forge items introduced by IA, so new players can decide where to spend their precious gold on.

Must forge items

1. Boots of impr haste - With belm in off hand, and gauntlets of extraordinary spec, its like having permanent GWW activated! Whats not to like? With these boots, you are free to take multiple critical strikes.

2. Memory of the Apprenti - 3 extra spells per level. With specialist class, thats 4 extra spells per level. You could stand forever in the midst of the most powerfull melee monsters and emerge without a stratch.

3. Holy avenger - When multiple RoR still dont work, never fret, holy avenger is here! Combine with time trap and a WW for extra effectiveness.

4. Improved Cat Figurine - Greater restoration on steriods, without exhausting the user. Enough said.

I havent gotten around to forging more weapons yet,so no opinions there for now.

[Arkain]

Um... neither sarcasm nor negative criticism allowed?
I actually don't really like your methods, mostly those hefty resistances etc., because imho those are, well, (as already mentioned above) "weird". Everyone and their brother got those for apparently no reason. If one's fighting a magical beast such as a dragon because one could argue it's the beasts hide, or it's origin or whatever giving it these bonuses. Sorry but I simply can't imagine why everybody's in the epic levels and got those rather high (or medium, or whatever) resistances to various elements, all sorts of physical damage and magic if not from their equipment. Maybe it's something in the water. Get my point?
Due to you not cheating or doing whatever to make the battles (more) challenging but relying on clever scripts it's getting more interesting from the strategical point of view. The challenge provided is quite nice as it's something different. The "run" I'm doing at the moment will be finished, at last, mostly 'cause one might be sorry if he doesn't finish the IA at least once. Maybe one more or two or...
If you wish, I might give you a review afterwards - as originally planned - but if you don't want to hear it when someone doesn't like everything about the mod, and even DARES to say so: tell me now. Would save me the time needed for writing, although you might wonder about my actual opinion apart from the one presented above.

[edit] Yep, maybe it's a bit overdone . But maybe Sikret didn't read the "Fun nevertheless."?
Now, why have I written the post at all? Because those were my first thoughts after some playtime, actually. That it's mostly so hard because the enemies are so much "stronger" (levelwise) it's not funny even more + they get those tough golems or whatever to join the fight. Oh, the golems did me some favor by the way: I'm thinking more about switching weapons, or rather damage types, because it's actually important.
As IA still isn't finished for me the opinion expressed can change, of course, to the direct opposite or whatever. One more reason to keep on playing. [/edit]

This post has been edited by Arkain: Jun 5 2007, 07:55 PM

[thetruth]

I actually don't really like your methods, mostly those hefty resistances etc., because imho those are, well, (as already mentioned above) "weird".

We have discussed this before.

I agree that humans' resistances can not be "justified", but as I have already said, even the best scripts (and IA does have the most intelligent enemy scripts of any other mod out there - I don't even argue that) is not enough by itself to reach that kind of difficulty level that Sikret and many other players want.

I repeat the difficulty can be sometimes really frustrating, but I think that the players who decide to install IA already know this, so it's the player's decision to play or not with IA.

And besides I think that Sikret has already in mind to do sthg for those players how find IA too difficult. Just have some patience please

Yep, maybe it's a bit overdone . But maybe Sikret didn't read the "Fun nevertheless."?

Yes I understand, but keep in mind that a page of "negative" comments is not the best for a modder to receive for his work .

Especially for someone like Sikret who has dedicated all of his free time for IA (just look guys how many new things has Sikret done only by himself in such a small time-span, from IA3 to IA4 - it's really admirable).

And besides Sikret has already demonstrated that he does pay attention to player's feedback/criticism. IA is based also on that.