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Skills

By Shadow the Edgehog

There is no skill reset chances, so, if you don't want to use cheats, then you should think twice about what skills is best for you.

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22 Jan, 2014 @ 3:19am

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Overview

Magic *snort-snort*

Barbarian

Handsome Rogue

Tips, tricks, bugs and cheat.

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Magic *snort-snort*

These skills proved to be miserable

Deadly Discs - pattern is miserable. Have Hell Spikes instead.
Withering Curse - requires enemy's spirital resistance lower than 5-25, which is miserable. Use survivor's Curse instead.
Elemental Bolt - Elemental Hail and Elemental Strike are much better choice. First provides AoE, Second gives the most damage+Poison and Spirit.
Poisonous Cloud - damage is miserable. But if you have a free time, and some NPC that you wanna dead, put one point.
Summon Vermin - rats are miserable. Have Summon Virgin instead.
Summon Skeleton - those are miserable. Have a Skeleton Wall instead.
Master Summoner (Passive) - summons are meat shield and a distractors. Giving them lvl won't help much as Magic Shields.

Invest all your points in these

Hell Spikes - huge amount damage at rank 5, very easy to kill any boss with it. AoE. This spell became effective at rank 3.
Bless - give a great stat boost +15 for two minutes.
Burning Wall - YOU SHALL NOT PASS this skill if you don't have serious lightning resistance(well not YOU, monsters of course. You can pass). With this awesome skill you can kill tons and tons of monsters very easily, just running around. Give it at least 3 points.
Resurrect - you can raise a boss and make it your slave! Rank 5 is recommended for bigger hp. Use it with survivor's Aura of Command.

Put one point in these.

Skeleton Wall - You can summon a skeleton army for a distraction and tanking your opponents.
Restoration - you'll get 4 points of this skill in quests, and also there are magic books with this spell. Don't waste your points, but it is very usefull with bosses for mages, because you can spam it.
Aura of Guarding - shield that takes 60-140 physical damage. There is no time limit or mana drain, it's a cast and forget spell, and it lasts until it takes the maximum damage, or until you sleep.
Spellshield - shield that takes 60-140 magic damage, including poison. Poison is magic, yeah.
Fade From Sight - IT IS BEST INVISIBILITY SPELL HERE, you can drink potions, but nothing else. You might wanna put a point here, if you don't want to fight all these monsters, but maybe even more points, if you are not a mage, and your mana is low.
Freeze - At Rank 1, IF the target's Spiritual Resistance is less than 10, it does 20 damage and freezes the target for 3 seconds for a magic cost of 4. The magic cost skyrockets, though. At Rank 5, IF the target's Spiritual Resistance is less than 30, it does 60 damage and freezes the target for 15 seconds for a magic cost of 25.
I recommend Rank 3, works on many bosses.
Life Leech - just as freeze - it is spirital attack, and monster should't have much spirital resistance. But it will suck dry any high hp walking potions. I recommend put ONLY one point.
Banish - You can find spellbooks of this. Also, there is a quest reward. It will help you to make YOUR summons dissapear, if they will annoy you too much. It will also work on enemy's summons, but...I recommend Aura Of Command for them.

Telekenesis and Eye of Sight are optional. If you wanna telekenesis to steal stuff, interact with levers, you need 2-3 points. Eye of Sight MOSTLY USELESS, because you can't see npc\enemy with this, but you can see what inside a house, to steal with telekenesis. Also, everything you see with this spell, will dissapear in darkness(if it was in darkness), but the range of this spell is unlimited, and greatly works with "caps lock" button. Recommend 2 points, and no more.

Other skills are optional. You might even like them.

Barbarian

THESE SKILLS ARE PUNY

Poisoned Arrows - USE THIEF'S POISON ISTEAD
Repel Damage - MONSTERS GIVE PUNY DAMAGE, BUT I WILL RETURN EVEN PUNY..ER DAMAGE
Feign Death - IS FOR COWARDS, SMART GUYS LIKE ME USES HIDE FROM LIGHT or fade from bright or fight for fight...YEAH, FIGHT FOR FIGHT! You will hear sexy noises if you play as female
Boomerang - 5 points for a normal attack damage but in range? HULK IS NOT STUPID, HULK WILL USE PUNY BOW INSTEAD.
Shadow warrior - THIS IS ATTACK, NOT SUMMON, AND THIS ATTACK IS STUPID, JUST AS BOOOO MEEE RAAA NG.
Reflect Missiles - PUNY MISSLES WON'T HURT ME, AND 25% OF THESE WON'T HURT THEM.
Flash Attack - IT IS FUNNY TO SPAM THIS SKILL, AND TELEPORT LIKE SOME BLEACH ANIME CHARACTERS, OR NINJAS, OR SAMURAI'S STRIKES, BUT I NEED STAMINA FOR SWIRL ATTACK, AND I CAN JUST RUN ON MY FOOTS.

THESE SKILLS ARE FRIENDS

Augment Defence (Passive) - PROTECTION IS GOOD
Enchant Weapon (Passive) - IS THE ONLY WAY TO PUT CHARMS IN SLOTS
Repair - VERY HANDY IN COMBAT, WHEN YOU BROKE SOMETHING, ALSO SAVES LOTS OF MONEY.

ELEMENTAL DAMAGE (PASSIVE) WORKS ONLY WITH MELEE.
YOU CAN TAKE SHIELD EXPERTISE (PASSIVE) ONLY AFTER ELEMENTAL DAMAGE.
CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON EXPERTISE WISELY, REMEMBER, THERE IS ALSO DAGGER EXPERTISE IN THE THIEF'S SECTION.

Handsome Rogue

Mugsy, get rid off them

Evade Trap (Passive) - traps are too rare in these days, they are not deadly as me, so don't waste points on them.
Embrace Shadows - Mobsters should never take it, they have their own special skill, use magician's fade from sight trick.
True Sight (Passive) - one rugular scum turnes invisible, and four bosses casts blind. Don't waste points on them.
Necroshift - This necro mumbo jumbo just won't work properly. Waste.
Trader's Tongue (Passive) - just make traders happy, and you will get your discount. Don't waste your points here.
Ranger Sight (Passive) - you have Elven Sight.
Wisdom (Passive) - our brainiacs made some calculations, and said that this skill sucks bananas better than proffecional hookers.
Heaven's Gift - it creates potions, gold ~100, some usual stuff and it is a waste.
Survivor's Instinct (Passive) - to regenerate 300 hp at rank 5 it will take 20 minutes. I hope you have a book to read.

Mugsy, hire those goons, I need a good guys for business

Lockpick - many doors, many cheasts, many treasures in them, you get the idea.
Alchemy - must have skill, as it allows you to make restorative potions and they restore all your hp and mana. Just combine mana potion and health potion. I recommend put there at least 1 point. Don't put there 5th point, it is not worthy.
Know Creature (Passive) - usefull for mages, as it show weaknesses at level 5.
Curse - great for mages, as it reduces resistance to minimum with a spam casting.(or even to -5 resistance) Then you can instantly kill, freeze, suck dry, to do anything you want.
Magic Barrier (Passive) - 25 resist is a good at early stages, but later you can put gold charms with elemental resistance up to 40%. So, only if you have a free points to spare.
Aura of Command - steal summons from your enemys, makes any summons loyal to you, it is awesome and you must have it. (2-3 points is enough)

Path of the divine mobster

Translocate - GOOD to waste 1 point just to travel on a HUGE distances(In that desert, you will need it, also, use caps lock button to look around.)
Divine Death - GOOD. Kill them. All of them. At least 1 point is highly recommended.
Spirit Form - BAD. Dragon will give you a 1 point. It is all you need. Ghost is very slow.
Scorch - BAD. It has very slow attack rate.
Heaven's Blessing - BEST. At Rank 5, it boosts all your attributes and resistances by 40% for 150 seconds.
Divine Eye - WORST. Just send a big eye to look around.
Temporal Storm - TIME. It is AoE version of Limbs of Lead, it slows but doesn't stop them.
Lightning Cascade - MEH. It is AoE version of lightning, and at that point of the game, many enemies has lightning resistance. They have just one weakness and to other elements they are almost immune.

Tips, tricks, bugs and cheat.

Tips:

Don't drink mana potions, drink restorative potions, create them with alchemy.
Use caps lock to look around, and caps lock to lock at your character.
Use alt for loot. Use ctrl to shoot and to separate loot. Use space to pause.

Tricks:

To go to the stormfist castle AGAIN, you can go there, when dialog appears, close it, press space and go to the stormfist castle again.
To win hand to hand battle in the gnome's tavern easy, through your weapons and potions inside the ring, pick them up and beat the guy.

Bugs:

Polymorgh spell will turn your enemy in the random creature FOREVER.
DON'T RESURECT RABBITS AND DON'T MAKE THEM YOUR PETS WITH AURA OF COMMAND, firstly all cats will want you DEAD, and then your own summons will want you dead, as if you are that rabbit!
Your summons will attack you if you will turn into cat\frog\spider.

Cheats:

Use DDSaveEdit programm to have more skill points, and stats. Also, you can reset skill points with it probably.
To copy an item, put it in your iventory, ctrl+S (fast save), take it out of your inventory, BUT DON'T DROP IT YET, then press ctrl+L (fast load), and while it loads drop it on the ground.
To create 255 items, you must have at least 2. Put them out your inventory while holding ctrl, write -1 and then press Enter.

30 Comments

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A Cool Stick 30 Jul, 2024 @ 2:22pm

The reason Alchemy is better than Heaven's Gift is because by the time you are able to put points into Heaven's Gift, you are already swimming in more resto pots than you can ever use from your single point in Alchemy, and money is a non-issue by that point of the game. So all Heaven's Gift does for you is save you a bit of gold by the time of the game where you could really care less about gold. Essentially trading skill points for gold, it's a really bad trade. Alchemy lets you create potions you can't buy so it's still valuable forever.

Джон Атанасов 29 Jul, 2024 @ 9:52am

Guide is good, but there is some contradictory statements.
Alchemy is good, but Heaven's Gift is bad ?
With alchemy you must search for flask, then search for herbs/mushrooms to fill them... Spend time and gold!
With Heaven's Gift level 2-3, cast like crazy, take alot of potion and gold, and then repeat :D

BOT 12 Jun, 2024 @ 10:37am

what is better ? using an axe or an longsword or a normal sword with a shild.?
shild could have bonuses and marbels in it .. are those stats then not better?

also if you want double an item, drag it out of inventory but dont let your click, hold the click, press exit/esc button, let the click, go back in game/continue and volla its doubled.

- you can do that with books too if you want. i never saw the point of that because magic is a bit less powerfull accept hell spikes at lvl 5 or burning wall.

- 5 points in repair? 1 point is more then enaugh.
- you can make money bye buying beer and selling it or doubling your money or stealing stuff.
- alchemi is most useles skill, you will have more then enaugh money in this game
- you can summon skorpions and make them your slaves and they win any fight in the game.
- you can resoruct enemys teleport somewhere and teleport back and fight kill them again. exp and stuff if you want "legaly cheat"

Nyarlanthotep 16 Apr, 2023 @ 1:38am

exceptional guide and humor :))

Do^vRe^vMe^vFa^vSol^vLa^vTi 15 Apr, 2023 @ 11:44am

Thank you fine Sir, this much needed advice from a Veteran was very useful.

Edwin 24 Jun, 2022 @ 7:36am

thank you for sharing your great knowledge :)))

Cyanmurder 17 Jan, 2022 @ 7:59pm

Really you can choose any class and have any skills, you be like the jack of all trades.

Duru 13 Aug, 2021 @ 5:40pm

Massively helpful, I started out as warrior, but it seems like magic spells are what's really OP here :/ sucks that most of the summons are useless ughhh

a1rbud 11 Jul, 2020 @ 2:34pm

Super super helpful guide. Thanks a lot for spending the time to make this

Rin 5 May, 2020 @ 9:45am

Nice guide. I'll try to beat the game without relying on steel scorpions for once. No promises. :P

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