mage - impossible - necromancer island1 strategies?

[namad]

WOW what a moronic game mechanic!


I just assumed those recipes were one time use only because they made such powerful items for such a low cost... honestly ... I think they should be one time use only, I mean infinite gold/experience/crystals defeats the whole purpose of this game! I think maybe a person would be better off just pretending they are one-time use only or something for balance sake?


the big problem really is that even if I had the alchemy runes I don't know what good it would do, as one thing being missed out on here is that all the spells everyone recommends to upgrade I haven't found scrolls for in this playthrough, although i did in my normal playthrough (was too easy restarted on impossible)


P.S. I just gave up, let myself lose, went back, he had only 1or2 units left and i won easily... is there any penalty to dying in a battle really? i've never allowed myself to lose a battle without loading before? (I actually killed like all but 1 of his units but he just kept summoning more and more and more and I lost but the summoned units don't count for the rematch so he had like 20zombies total left and 0non-zombies) (hmmm I got like almost no experience for the win? I guess that's the penalty? no experience for the deaths of all the units that die the first time around?)