Surviving on Impossible

[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.

[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.