I hear lots of talk about the sword of chaos and the singing blade, but for me they both sucked bad. Love that random thing! I used the brightblade thing from Seth, it had 100vitality 10con which was really nice at level 3 when I got it and gratuated to Bow of the Angels or something that I bought for about 15000gold. I then used the sword (1hander) from the holy item quest, although next time I'll choose the amulet because I didnt find another decent amulet during the whole game. Lastly I used sword of the gods... and I got wonderful stats on that one including:
5 charm slots
random stat increases
100vit/100mana
5frost
5lightning
5manadrain
4fire
effect poison weapon
But since hell spikes kills everything in 1-2 seconds, and kills more than one thing at once, I never really even used a sword for anything more than the stat increases and charm slots.
In the wastelands there is also an axe called “Axe of a hundred crusades” you get from killing imps, and before identifying it if you save and load until you get the proper combination of magical damage you end up with a fantastic weapon.
I once made an experiment and created a one handed orb “Orb of Magic” and a magic shield “Ultimate Defence” along with the “Amulet of Glory”, a Ruby ring, a Sapphire ring, “Boots of speed”, “Leggings of strength”, “Belt of Virtue” and a fabulous Armour I called the “Spider Silk Shirt of Impenetrability”.
Finally I added the “Gloves of casting”
I created it such that its weight was only 10 units while its armour value was 1000. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
I certainly was playing as a mage and each item was dedicated to enhance what it stood for.
Nothing random.
I enjoyed casting spells such as the directional but non targeting meteor strike, the perfectly selective Electric thunderbolts, hell spikes, curse and telekinesis.
I tell you that a divine mage was not meant to be without such a concoction of items.
A thief would love to have “The Everlasting Lock Picks”, “Boots of the wind”, “Leggings of evasion”, “Helmet of Invisibility”, “Belt of wall climbing”, “Dagger of Treachery”, “Rainbow Ring of Hypnosis”, “Snakes Ruby Ring of Poison” and the “Gloves of swift hands”
I am certain that many crappie items could have bean replaced by such if the system was not based on randomisation to end up with all combinations of adjectives and roots along with each and every graphics of an item. For example, the singing sword image is the same two handed death knight sword and so forth.
In this game you may practically edit a spoon to have a charm quality of 5 and a damage between 1500 and 2000 augmented with all magical damage available and kill the Lord of Chaos itself by that spoon. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Have fun.
Cheers.
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