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I'm doing pretty well with just the armors I've found. I bought an extra weapon for dual welding, and so far it's been great. I haven't used elemental magic at all since the update.

Damn. What equipment do you have to get all those 0 damage hits and reach grindfest round 184 as a level 24? I'm guessing it's something you bought?

2 peices or so of heavy armor turn most normal attacks to 0-5 or so on normal mobs
i could probably get past 100 rounds on cake if i really wanted to but 10-20 rounds on normal is much more efficient

I've been dying faster than tetris falling on level 20 on Nintendo DS Tetris since the new update. This is on CAKE, mind you. WHERE ARE MY EQUIPS?!

I'm naked and on occasion I'll get like 5-10 resists in a row, am I supposed to blame the mace I bought? I haven't gotten a single equipment drop since they were implemented. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

nope that is due to the lower base hit chances interfence will give a different message than if the resist it

Wait, you're only around 400 hp pan? I'm almost at 700 :X but then I guess you're magic focused.

468 as a matter of fact. My END is 42+2.

So... Not going too well for me so far. I've already failed two Arena challenges that I would normally expect to beat without too much trouble, partly due to resists/interference nobbling my magic and partly due to certain monsters apparently getting enormous boosts to their magic. Horrible Rape seems to be particularly horrible at the moment. I could probably have survived if I had used a few health and/or mana items at the right time (ie several turns before the point where I actually realised things were going pear-shaped), but I can't help feeling a strategy of throwing a Godly Health Potion at every battle isn't going to be very practical.

Well, I hope that can all be sorted out by choosing the right equipment (not that I have much to choose from at the moment) and adjusting my stats to work with it... not to mention my abilities. Speaking of which: no free AP reset this time? That seems a little unfair given the scope of this update. How about one free reset, but don't reset the counter, so the next one will still be at the old price? Seems like a reasonable compromise to me...

What else was there? Oh yes, Grindfest. So the monsters give more EXP to make up for them being stronger. That's all very well, but EXP was never my main reason for doing Grindfest - it was to get items and build up my proficiencies. But then again, that was probably all part of the master plan. After all, we can now get items from the shop, and it looks like we'll have to specialise our characters more, which means there's no point in trying to be proficient in everything. Ho hum.

Finally, that flashing thing. Nice touch, but please get rid of it on dead monsters. In fact, why not just clear all the status effects when they're dead? And having it on Flee is possibly somewhat pointless. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

PS Tenboro (if you read this far), I'm glad you activated the equipment, though you might not have got that impression from my previous comments...

im loving this stun

Damn. What equipment do you have to get all those 0 damage hits and reach grindfest round 184 as a level 24? I'm guessing it's something you bought?

weapons from store, others dropped in the first days of 0.3.1. And I'm not whining about, is just i feel the hv a little repetitive today
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Seriously, I only have a WEAPON.

I want the HV to be repetitive...

Update = the sukc!

No armor = No chance = No point playing

There must be an unlimited supply of basic armor and weapons available the Equipment Store, otherwise those that didn't get armor drops pre-update are permanently fucked.

Sadly, I must agree. Every RPG I've played would have at least some crappy stuff at the store for people to buy then more rare stuff to work towards.

This post has been edited by bullpup: Aug 21 2009, 06:01

Finally, that flashing thing. Nice touch, but please get rid of it on dead monsters. In fact, why not just clear all the status effects when they're dead? And having it on Flee is possibly somewhat pointless. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Check out the latest version of my Battle Buddy mod...the first thing I fixed was the flashing on dead monsters...no more pulsating while I beat up the living.

It was more annoying when the procs were bugged. Seeing 6 dead monsters with flashing debuffs = burning eyes. Hopefully Ten takes me up on that suggestion I made earlier in the thread about deprecating spells. Seeing the kind of spells they are it would seem best if it was the average of both physical and magical hit, that way it won't be a waste for melee heavy fighters to get them...

This post has been edited by Dndestroy: Aug 21 2009, 06:10

I don't seem to be getting my hourerly!!

Edit: Nevermind, must've just missed dawn

This post has been edited by nick321: Aug 21 2009, 06:31

Wow.......Equipment Drops seem to be REALLY rare these last few days.

Finding myself hard to survive even in 1st round grindfest in the cake of lie (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

My general feedback echos a lot of what is posted here. I was only able to find weapons (3 of them) off monsters during the entire time equipment was enabled, so I have no armor to work with. So normal attacks against me are gonna hurt, elemental even more so. My magic in general is pretty darn bad too for some reason. Dual-wielding = no offensive magic for you?

Dual-wielding = no offensive magic for you?

More or less. Each of your weapons has a stat called "interference." If you have two weapons with 10 interference each, then you have (we think) a 20% chance of a spell failing. Staff weapons and cloth armor are the only things that do not have interference (excepting some rare sets).

There is no combination of armor or nakedness I can use to avoid having my depreciating spells resisted over and over. Mithra resisted 27 spell attempts on my last Endgame run, including 11 in a row at one point. And that is with low interference & burden and high wisdom & intelligence. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)