Impossible warrior on freedom islands

Vilk · #1 05-08-2009, 11:45 AM

Day 3 on Islands... ok... but level 11! Holy cheat!

DGDobrev · #2 05-08-2009, 12:16 PM

The warrior can do a lot of things rather quickly and can have superior leadership, can complete a lot of quests quickly and efficiently. The only problem is that some versions don't have a clock, but a daytime/night, etc, and it's hard to time everything you do. I have that problem and that's the second time I waste a day from 2 to 3, while I can be on the islands at day 3 without any troubles. And I'm playing a paladin, so I'm positive it's doable with any char.

So no cheating involved there, I'm sure of it.

Calinda · #3 05-08-2009, 04:33 PM

With the +XP skill maxed and Tactics Treatise on top of it for +10% extra XP it is pretty possible

Calinda · #4 05-08-2009, 04:35 PM

And to DGDobrev - yup you definitely must have a clock, so you time your travels at 6:55 AM or so. IIRC time is shown as tooltip when you mouseover the day/night thing.

DGDobrev · #5 05-08-2009, 04:42 PM

I'm trying to get it to work although I can't quite get what's wrong. When I mouseover, I still get Daytime, for example. Maybe I picked the wrong patch for this version. I used 1.7's patch that nobilis launched (and I don't use any cracks, if that's what someone's implying, the game's legit as hell), but it should work for the 1c/Katauri version without a problem, or so I read

EDIT: Fixed it

jwallstone · #6 05-08-2009, 10:14 PM

DGDobrev: How did you fix it? I have the same issue.

DGDobrev · #7 05-09-2009, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by jwallstone

DGDobrev: How did you fix it? I have the same issue.

Try using a different patch other than nobilis and/or different download place (I tried like 5-6). I don't actually know how it happened, or which download place worked, but it did.

@Vilk

You mean you do most quests and fights of first 4 area before 7AM day 3? From reading some post it seems that going to islands before level 10/11 would be quite a challenge in Islands.

-> Yeah, absolutely, and with slim to none losses. A few battles I did skip... I hate seeing a lot of units die just like that, and I'm extremely unlucky... No magic spring spell whatsoever in the starting areas! Let's hope there will be one lying around the freedom islands, or I'll be restarting this game too. The only reason that kept me from doing that so far is that I got a few nice + leadership items, I have a lot of griffins available and Rina gave birth to a +10% XP kid. However, even with this setup I'll be going to the islands at level 9 at most (although I have lvl 3 learning). What Calinda managed to do and get to lvl 11 is amazing, and was probably a product of many battles vs. strong or overpowered enemies, because you seem to get the most XP in such battles. There are some nice places in the swamp where you can easily beat the crap out of the powerful enemies, like the 3-hex battle arenas where 2 hexes are blocked by obstacles and you can put your horseman on the free hex to block any advance.

Vilk · #8 05-08-2009, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Calinda

With the +XP skill maxed and Tactics Treatise on top of it for +10% extra XP it is pretty possible

Tactics Treatise isn't in my current game yet!

For the XP skill maxed that's Paladin skills so not so easy to increase them soon for a warrior and a mage.

There's also a set with the Tactics Treatise and Bloody Band that bring +5% XP bonus.

I haven't check with your savegame you provided but I bet that to reach level 11 even with xp bonus at some point, this requires to have done most if not all quests and fights in the first 4 area, that is incredible in a so short time, very impressive.

Vilk · #9 05-08-2009, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by DGDobrev

The warrior can do a lot of things rather quickly and can have superior leadership, can complete a lot of quests quickly and efficiently. The only problem is that some versions don't have a clock, but a daytime/night, etc, and it's hard to time everything you do. I have that problem and that's the second time I waste a day from 2 to 3, while I can be on the islands at day 3 without any troubles. And I'm playing a paladin, so I'm positive it's doable with any char.

So no cheating involved there, I'm sure of it.

Holy cheat didn't mean cheating but a weird variation of Holy Shit.

There's already records posted in 7 days for mage and warrior I'm sure it's quite possible to do Paladin too in 7 days. Even with warrior, reach level 11 before day 3 7AM is still quite incredible.

I'd be curious to know how the mage that made it in 7 days did that first area and what level before day 3 7AM.

Vilk · #10 05-08-2009, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DGDobrev

...while I can be on the islands at day 3 without any troubles...

You mean you do most quests and fights of first 4 area before 7AM day 3? From reading some post it seems that going to islands before level 10/11 would be quite a challenge in Islands.

And I suspect that to reach level 10/11 even with some xp bonus at some point requires that you do most quests and fights of first 4 area. I'm currently level 6 and don't have much to do in the first four area but the Cemetery, few heroes and few tough quests like the mage challenge, the king's treasure quest, the last part of the barbarian quests, the mage tower and few other I probably forget.