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minchazo Registered user Last page view: 5795 days, 6 hours, 54 minutes and 53 seconds ago. |
I've just recently learned many of the benefits from using Darkness, specifically with Vortexes (thanks, everyone!) Before this, my wounded character would run away and helplessly watch his approaching death, knowing there was no way to escape from the coming explosion (barring teleport). So, after reading about how darkness works, my drakeling wizard (Dinah) cast it on a vortex and killed him easily. *grin* As luck would have it, the RNG threw a tension room of fire vortexes at her a little later in the COC. Now that I know how to kill them, I decide that I'm gonna make it slow and painful for them. Frost bolt? Ice ball? Nah, it'll be over way too quickly. Dinah shoots at them with her bow instead (currently only at lvl 3-4 on bows) and intended to melee them once they get close. Vortex #1 finally gets up in her face and Dinah casts darkness, only to have #1 blow up in her face... o.O Still alive, though she is in single digits, Dinah wonders what went wrong? Did she really cast darkness? Was she wearing an amulet of light? Nope, everything around her is dark, the only thing she can see is that open door in front of her that the vortex was standing on... Does darkness not work on door squares? Or is there some other reason that the vortex blew up that I'm not considering? |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4068 days, 12 hours, 1 minute and 18 seconds ago. |
I hate to say this, but you were asking for it. :) Other than that, yeah, door squares tend to behave strangely. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4239 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes and 8 seconds ago. |
Door squares behave oddly even after the door is knocked down. It's usually best to equip yourself with resistance anyway in case something goes wrong. As a wizard it's much safer to use invisibility and bolt spells (not ball spells) - I only use darkness with melee characters who need it. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Doalag Registered user Last page view: 5850 days, 13 hours, 45 minutes and 55 seconds ago. |
What I hate with pets used with another class than bard or farmer is that in dark a char can hit pets and make them wild. If the Vortex is close I won't bet on invisibility. I recently got stuff destroyed by an acid vortex despite I was invisible. Well ok I could have use some teleport to avoid it but believed in invisibility... and my luck! :-D I know it's better to never believe in your luck! |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4897 days, 13 hours, 36 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
You can't missile or melee attack while invisible, it gives away your possition. Bolt spell, acid spit, and wands work though. About door squares, if you stand in a door square, with the vortex in the dark, it can't explode. If the vortex is in the door, and you are in the dark it can... or was it the other way around. I never can remember : ) Seriously, if you are on the door square, your ok. A funny thing about the door squares, they don't go dark at all. You can see your PC clearly, but if you try to read something, you get the 'no read in the dark' message. Secret passage doors are different I think. If you cast darkness, then discover the passageway (how?!), then the square is not dark. However, you can cast darkness again, and it will go nicely dark then. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Subconscious Registered user Adventurer of the Human Mind Last page view: 5391 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes and 54 seconds ago. |
Invisibility works with missile attacks. I always use it at rehetep's to kill the jackaldaemons first and then Rehetep from afar. Helps if theres some bad enemies generated on third pyramid level. "The white baby dragon equips the small shield." WTF :D |
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Doalag Registered user Last page view: 5850 days, 13 hours, 45 minutes and 55 seconds ago. |
I didn't attack, I was only invisible walking when the vortex go near and explodes. Not like in the dark. |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4068 days, 12 hours, 1 minute and 18 seconds ago. |
Invisibility doesn't work with missile attacks in my experience. The opponents you hit with missiles start moving towards you, and if you didn't kill them with the missiles, they would be able to hit you. Invisibility never works against enemies you have engaged at any point in the game, even if you missed. Spells seem to be the exception. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! [Edited 1 time, last edit on 3/26/2008 at 06:42 (GMT -5) by Silfir] |
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SirMason Registered user Paladin of the Shining Citadel Last page view: 4745 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes and 36 seconds ago. |
So let me get this straight. If I'm standing in a doorway and cast darkness on a vortex, the vortex will explode without damaging my PC or equipment? Do I have to kick the door down first? You pick up the Wand of Do Nothing. 'z'... Nothing happens. 't'... The Wand of Do Nothing misses the kestral. Come on, it's a Wand of Do Nothing! |
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vogonpoet Registered user Last page view: 4956 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes and 52 seconds ago. |
No dude, thats bent. If a vortex explodes, it will damage your PC and equipment, if they dont have the right resistance. In the dark, vortices never explode. Doorways are buggy for darkness. Monsters standing in a door which should be dark are not standing in the dark. If you are being chased by a vortex, make sure you are not next to doorway before casting your darkness. Err, right? |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4897 days, 13 hours, 36 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
HA! Now I'm confused! : D I'm just joking, vogonpoet is correct. If a vortex is capable of panic, they might be able to explode in the dark, but I don't think they are able to panic. I have made a demo of an exp. level 1 trollish wizard, using darkness to kill Barnabus. You can see from that, which squares to be avoided. It's link is on an older thread here. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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The Real J. Registered user The faceless swordsman Last page view: 5613 days, 18 hours, 15 minutes and 44 seconds ago. |
Hmmm... Has anyone ever witnessed a vortex self-berferking ? Probably not as they apparently have no other means of attack but exploding. Though it would be kinda funny to see vortex deciding to fight to the death in blind rage, exploding on itself and gaining experience... OT: how about corrupting monsters ? ISTR reading somewhere that corrupting hits actually heal corrupting monsters. So would a corruptor, for instance, self-berferking actually keep healing itself ? Some other monsters might also make a funny effect if they decided to self-berferk: all kinds of eyes, doppelgangers, jellies... Sytytä toiselle tuli ja hän pysyy lämpimänä jonkin aikaa. Sytytä hänet palamaan ja hän pysyy lämpimänä loppuelämänsä. |