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- From: buie@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (willie.j.buie..jr)
- Subject: Re: Wish for 1st levl mage
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:11:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.221110.24968@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
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- (David R. Jaracz) writes:
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- >> What do you think is the best wish for a 1st level wizard (or any
- >> other character)
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- For a starting wizard, I'd *never* wish for gray dragon scale mail. Look,
- the only reason you wanted gray was so you could have magic resistance,
- right? And a starting wizard already has magic resistance! Best to go
- for another dragon intrinsic. I'd take *black* dragon scale mail.
-
- Yeah, yeah, flame breath, I've heard all the arguments about cloak of
- displacement & gray dragon scale mail vs. cloak of magic resistance &
- black dragon scale mail, but in my playing experience, I've found:
-
- 1) if you don't cheat or do "abuses", you can't always count on
- getting everything you need
- 2) magic resistance and disintegration resistance are *mandatory*
- intrinsics, and displacement is not (actually, I'm usually
- invisible and so heavily protected by the time I hit the
- castle, I don't even miss displacment if I don't have it).
-
- Covering your mandatory intrinsics first leaves you greater flexibility
- later in the game. I *always* want more things than there are wishes for
- in the castle's WoW.
-
- --Bill
-