My experiences with IA 5.0, Continue Shadan's topics with similar name Options

[Ryel ril Ers]

When Shadan started to play with IA 4.2, he opened a topic for write his experiences. I want to continue this with the v 5.0. So everybody who want to share his/her experiences could write it in this place and don't opened hundreds of topics wich tells somebody walkthrough. I want to gather lots of information in one place. (Sikret's walkthrough is too good so i don't want write to that place), and the starter player see which tactics, parties and quest orders works, and how use his/her money.

I ask everybody who write in this topic:
-Use spoilers tag for the tactics
-Don't write down serious spoilers
-Don't write down statistics (like xy has 69% fire resist) and immunities. (except the weapon enchantment and spell level immunities)

This post has been edited by Ryel ril Ers: Aug 1 2008, 06:05 AM

[lroumen]

Interesting read so far.

I'm busy with a 5-6 party run using a Vagrant Protagonist and when finished (or largely finished) I was wondering whether I could take the knowledge I had gathered into a solo game. See how far you can get. I would have taken a Blade as Protagonist or a Fighter/Mage/Thief. From what I've read so far, the problem with the Blade is threefold.
1. Bad items (bad combat protection)
2. No high level spells (hard to fight certain battles)
3. Bad saving throws (hard to resist emotion, confusion and hold spells unless you have the right gear)

The problem with a solo game would be to do everything in a proper order, so that the difficulty of the battles does not increase too much. You're pretty much forced to complete the simpler quests first to build levels and gain spells, not to mention good items. Additionally, you do not get the items gained through normal play and NPC quests, but you need to go on killing sprees. I forsee that going the evil path (siding with Bodhi) will be more profitable than playing the good way. You get to kill Aran which means that you will get his Elven Chainmail fairly early on and that will be good for your FMT or Bard.
Hmmm..... I'll muse on this some more before attempting to get anywhere. IA will be impossible and in my current game I haven't even cleared most of the starting dungeons yet, let alone come across the late game challenges... Soloing will be pure masochism and I can foresee only death before finishing chapter 3 (getting 15k gold isn't hard, hehehe).