Surviving on Impossible

[kennec]

impossible warrior must be hardest in game.

mage>paladin>warrior.

altough i agree posters above that mages devolpment can be slowed alot with acces to wrong spells early on. warrior and paladin only need like 3, stoneskin,haste,slow, and mayby rez.

calinda whut type of rage skills did u use?

[Sandsai]

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

@ Calinda, that's super impressive. You finished Impossible on day 27 as a Warrior with 1.7 million gold in the bank? Respect.

I think I will finish in about 30-35 days, so my score might be near this but perhaps only 1200-1300. I don't like to use dirigibles etc except when I have to. Do you think you could explain how you managed to win the Impossible Warrior challenge so easily? A lot of us here are of the opinion that playing as a Mage is a fair bit easier than as a Warrior. Therefore I have come to the opinion that Impossible Warrior is the hardest actual game. So how did you do it?

@ kennec, yes I find Trading and Trophies to be very useful for obtaining money (obviously). I like to 'upgrade and trade' items I don't need for profit. I've got two Officer's Batons which are perfect for this. Looks like you will do fine if you have all of those units stashed away.

@ Sandsai, you need Ice Snake, which is an awesome spell for Freedom Isles. Bit like I know. In this game the king of Freedom Isles had it for sale straight away. Chaos 3 plus Ice Snake at level 9 meant I smashed everything in Freedom Isles without much difficulty.

Ya I know I need spells, the problem is I can't seem to get a break here and get lucky on any of the important spells. I guess the plan will be to dump points into Geyser: SPOILER AS TO HOW TO GET: that I will get as reward for Titan's Tear. I ran into some merchants selling fireball more than once though which is weak considering you start off with the spell. I swear I have much better luck with my war.

[Sandsai]

Originally Posted by milo

Something I found yesterday, the map of endoria obtained from the oblelisk quest, can also be turned in at the magic academy in verlon forest for a wide range of spells, I have not tested whether spells are random but it appeared the spells I was given were all spells I did not presently have.

Neat, I presume you got high level spells? Hard to give up 10 of each rune or that uber shield.

EDIT: Sorry for the kinda double post, should have just addressed this in my previous post. Again, sorry.

[kennec]

u always get geyser spell book from dwarfs for that titan thingy u found on freedom island. at least i have got it 3/3 times so far.

lighting seems to be easy to get to.

[Calinda]

My favorite rage skills - Stone wall from first one; Evil shoal early on from second, and only glot's armor later; from third - chargers, ice orb, and ice thorns; from reaper - time back, and sometimes soul and rage draining, but time back is essential later.

I used 4 shooting units(1 being inquisitors - for resurrection and 1 archmages - for shields) + 1 tanking/melee most of the time.
Tanking was Horsemen and later Archdemons when i got tolerance, but my guess is that anyone could work.
I had telescopic sight (got it after I married the dwarf, and i did marry her only to get it, then dumped her for the frog, and stuck with frog till the end, I just happened to have nice artifacts, and 3 artifact slots = win).

First magic I developed to level 3 was distortion, and lvl 1 chaos and order.
BTW 1,7M gold is nothing I spent millions to get runes (bought like 8 magic ones :S)
Mostly used spells - haste; slow; target(!); gift + sacrifice; magic spring, stoneskin, peacefulness, battle cry.
Basic tactics is make them hit your tank Target spell helps a lot if there are many range units.
Do not buff the tank on the first turn unless the enemy is very strong; Use time back on it at the end of the second turn, and then buff it with mages and a spell; Use time back on tank each time it charges up. Leave one enemy unit unkilled (as much weakened as possible) and drop an ice orb near it to prolong the battle, then use chargers/rage draining/time back/gift/resurrect/holy anger to recover as many loses as possible.

[Enarr]

Originally Posted by Calinda

Just finished on impossible, 27 days, and could have spared a couple of flights. Attaching a screenshot

Nice but...
Hows your warrior's INT so high? My paladin has the same int and he's wearing a couple of +int items and I was actually going down the mage route on my paladin.

Not only is your int really high, your other stats are even higher. 31 atk, 27 def?
You mustve been really lucky with the spawns of Shrines that gave +stats...
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[Sandsai]

Originally Posted by kennec

u always get geyser spell book from dwarfs for that titan thingy u found on freedom island. at least i have got it 3/3 times so far.

lighting seems to be easy to get to.

The reason I used the white font to describe this is in case someone new was readying this and would not get his enjoyment spoiled......

[Calinda]

Int is from Frog wife (+3), Necromancer's skull (+5) and some Dragon necklace (+1) so that is +9; remember spell correctly and tree of life thing both give +1, so basically I have found like 5 int shrines and/or got from levels.
For high attack - warrior can wear 2 weapons and no shield (as I did); Necromancer's skull gives +5 dragon necklace gives +3; May be something else too, can't remember.

[Zhuangzi]

Thanks Calinda. If I ever decide to try Impossible Warrior, I will re-read what you have said in this thread and try to apply it. I am up to 1 million gold in my Impossible Mage game at the beginning of Ellinia, but I would never consider paying 100k for one rune. I guess it depends how much money you have.

[megajon]

I have only played the game to level 9 as a warrior, but didn't really find much challenge, and figured I would try it on impossible as well.

So far only lvl 4 as a mage, and doing well I guess... have the gift and trap spells thus far... also luckily inquisitors aren't in short supply. I guess it coulda started off better, but I don't want to keep restarting the game untill I see an uber spell at the vendor.

So far it's basically feeling like easy mode with fireball, but that won't last long I guess...