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Three questions

Discussion in 'The Temple of Elemental Evil' started by carbon_dragon, May 16, 2012.

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    First, I selected Maximize spell at low level for my Wizard but I didn't allocate it because I didn't realize I had to. Now I tried to select the crosshair next to the Magic Missile and dragged the enhancement over to the right and clicked OK. But I can't see that is has done anything. The crosshairs are still there and I'm not sure if Magic Missile has been enhanced.

    Second, the Black Jay quests seem bugged. Jay won't talk to me about anything, even after finding the hemlock and the goblin isn't there either. I could talk to Jaroo but not Jay.

    Third, I went to Imeryds Run and won it eventually but man was it hard at 5th level. As soon as I got there I got ambushed by both frogs and all the lizard men and the hag as well. In 1 out of 3 I got attacked at the same time by the Gar too.

    As a p.s. it appears that if you have the screen saver on when you play, then the game blanks out when it kicks in. Very annoying.

    Anybody have some clue to the above problems? Thanks.

    I'm running the latest Co8 patches installed.

    ---------- Added 9 hours, 28 minutes and 18 seconds later... ----------

    I think I can see how maximize works. It doesn't automatically make all your spells better (bummer). It doesn't even transform ONE of your spells to be better (really bummer). What it apparently does is teach you a maximized version of the spell which is then 3 levels (count em) above the original spell level. Interestingly that makes 1st level spells 4th level. I think this is pretty much useless really. I did the fireball too and it's 6th level. With the Co8 patch I may or may not eventually be able to cast 6th level spells but I'm not holding my breath. I guess this is why we were never tempted to take these feats in the paper and pencil game.

    In regards to being mobbed by the frogs and the lizardman, judging from what I read, this isn't supposed to happen. You're supposed to have to fight them separately, but every time I warped in, both attacked me immediately without moving a centimeter. I only got the Gar too when I moved north to get some breathing room. I finally was only able to win by moving south so I could take on the lizardmen and their leader first. Even then I had one character swallowed and one killed by the lizardmen. I had to resurrect him and lose experience but considering the threat level I was willing to accept that. I don't know what the challenge level was but it seemed as though I would have had to be level 8 or 9 to take that on moderately easily.
     
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    What version of Co8 are you using? There have been some changes that could be affecting Black Jay's quest for you (in the most recent versions, you shouldn't be looking for the ring in a *goblin*...).

    For Imerdys Run, the fight with lizardmen+hag+frogs is very tough, but doable, with a 5th level group. What's the makeup of your team? The important thing I've found is disabling the King Frog with magic and the hag with non-magic. Makes things much easier.

    Looks like you figured out how meta-spell feats work. I've never used them myself.
     
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