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Topic: Is Speed too important?

• Mother Lode
  
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  Re: Is Speed too important?

  1 June 2011 at 4:05pm

  I'm not sure but I think 10 is about the max for warriors in act 2. That is what both my warrior heroes were when I completed act 2.
• StarScream
  
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  Re: Is Speed too important?

  1 June 2011 at 5:39pm

  i don't think you're supposed to be able to defeat everything with a single build. I found that some encounters were harder with some classes than others. The legendary and epic bosses are optional and the arena combats. Something to come back to next time. thats what i did.
• RRS
  
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  Re: Is Speed too important?

  1 June 2011 at 10:27pm

  Well , i just realize that most legendary fights (in act 2) is not needed at all by warrior . Whats the points to fight an assasin - nothing, same to snapjaw - the alchemyst gain rewards here. As for Nasalem - it is a funny , i actually tried him before go to vampire quest. So i go to vampire quest, wiped the floor with vampires(no one ever hit me once) i change two items with same stats but different skills - gain last laught (reroll enemy dices) and changed charm to life spark (4 hp with every double). With this skill finaly tip the balance in my favour with Nasalem. I take some sword from him and lose pierce but gain one more speed and brawn (b.t.w. Do you know where to find the second sword Ivory?)and now have 11 speed 11 brawn and 5 armour. Yet to try blue and red quest and hoping for some boost. However Dragon and the final Gladiator fight still looks impossible. Mushrooms are option but rule that after only 2 round the lower your speed for the whole fight stop me from using them.

  How do you play warrior with only 10 speed?
• Tisamon
  
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  Re: Is Speed too important?

  1 June 2011 at 11:54pm

  The arena chain and the legendary monsters can't be completed until your hero is at the end of that act. Vesuvius and Barkrot you might be able to do earlier but the others will just cream you. Do ALL the quests then worry about trying to kill them

  **spoiler**
  The other sword is in the cave in Unicorns Horn. Random dice roll so you might not get that route.
• Slloyd14
  
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  Re: Is Speed too important?

  4 June 2011 at 11:59am

  Any ability that determines whether you hit an opponent in combat or not is likely to be the most important in any gamebook (unless the book itself has lots of situations where non combat stats are important. The closest I can think of is The Screaming Spectre by Dave Morris where the correct use of spells means that you avoid most combats. Also the Citadel of Chaos (FF2) is OK with a low skill if you have a high enough magic score and the correct choice of spells and so is the Sorcery! series as long as you have, once again, the correct choice of spells)

  In Fighting Fantasy books, where skill is the combat attribute, you could complete most of them with a maximum skill score even if all of your other scores are at their miniumum, but some books might become impossible, even if you max out every stat apart from skill and have your skill at a medium value.

  As mentioned above, the importance of speed is balanced out by the need to be able to overcome an opponent's armour and inflict damage on them too meaning that speed does not have a monopoly on being successful in combat (whereas in Fighting Fantasy books, skill is the only stat you need in combat and if you have a low skill, then you are stuffed.)

  In terms of difference is speeds and how likely you are to win, if your speed is below an opponent's speed by 3 or more, then you are unlikely to win the combat.

  The table here - http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kHBgD4ZFvTs/TLdCSq-EcnI/AAAAAAAAAAU/zUlZelBZcXU/s1600/Probabilities+table.bmp

  shows the probability of winning, drawing and losing a round depending on the differences in your speed (it says skill because I did it for Fighting Fantasy but the same principles apply.)

  If your speed is 3 below an opponent's then you only have a 15% chance of winning a round.

  You might be able to win a straight fight if your speed is 2 below an opponents and since this is Destiny Quest where you could have tons of stat boosting items and abilities, if you enter the combat with the right stuff, you could win.

  I think Michael has done a great job with adding abilities and items that make winning combats possible even if your speed is lower than an opponents. Issues with legendary monsters may be resolved with the right strategy in the book or it may require some minor tweaking.

  However, the idea of having a store place is great as that means that you could focus your abilities in order to fight different opponents. That is something that I would like to see.
• DQ_Joe
  
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  Re: Is Speed too important?

  6 August 2011 at 10:06pm

  My stats after beating Sharroth were: SPD - 16, MGC - 23, BWN - 0, ARM - 1. (As you can see, I opted for Mage). I'm starting to see a pattern with this speed over powering business. I pretty much wiped the floor with anything I came across.