Hi Bryan.
Sleep is fantastic if used right, sinse firstly the enemy is out of action
and not hurting you, leaving your party free to pile on other enemies and
leave the sleeping one until later, which means it's far easier to play
tactically. Also, the sleeping enemy will take double damage from any attack
while sleeping, and that's not counting the assassinate ability which can do
truly ridiculous damage to sleeping opponents, often koing them in one shot.
The only real problem with sleep is your stupid pet, sinse on the lower
floors of the dungeon the 8 damage your pet does is negligeable (indeed
usually opponents are so well armoured you'll be doing a lot less than
that), even when doubled to 16 for a sleeping targit, meaning often the
wrong enemy gets woken up with little bennifit, another reason why better
pets have been another frequently requested entombed feature.
Even with that drawback though, sleep is great for managing fights, and I've
had games where the bard is virtually carrying the party, indeed in one game
I played my party wass a very useless monk/healer, I was trying a multiclass
technique and magic character, but the lack of advancement of either sets of
stats and of mana meant they were pretty useless at both, a rather feeble
halfling ranger assassin who never had any ranged weapons that could get
through the armour of opponents, and a completely awesome half elf bard who
basically carried the party by sleeping and chalming enemies into
slaughtering each other.
That crew actually got to the final boss, and killed the boss herself with a
lucky break limb from the monk, however after that none of them could do
enough damage to get through the regenerative ability of one of the boss's
minions, so I had to abandon the hole thing which was most annoying.
Still, from that very weak party you should see how completely fantastic and
overpowered bards are.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: <bpeterson2...@cableone.net>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] 2 question about entombed...
I don't know about sleep. Seems sort of pointless if the enemy always wakes
up the instant you do something. It'd be more useful if there was a chance
that they'd stay asleep for a few turns. And I've noticed that Curse
doesn't always work all that well even if the enemy doesn't resist it.
Are you threatening me? I am the great Cornholio! I come from Lake
Titicaca!
-----Original Message-----
From: dark
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 3:49 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] 2 question about entombed...
rep tom, right now the best skills in entombed are things like sleep,
curse,
and chalm that have a good chance of stopping the enemy's attacking you
while you finish them off, which is quite a shame for a game with such a
very detailed combat system.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] 2 question about entombed...
Hi Dark,
Hmmmm....That would make sense. I have had some human fighters with their
armor skills maxed out, and I didn't find it all that useful a strategy
for Entombed. Mainly because they didn't get to fight any more than a
weaker character meaning all my weaker characters often get killed first
leaving me with a well armored fighter to do the job at the end. When the
entire purpose of building up his/her armor skill was to protect weaker
characters. Grrrr....
On 5/18/2012 3:14 AM, dark wrote:
Hi Tom.
It also actually makes armour skills pretty pointless, sinse if your
well armoured character will not be getting attacked anymore than your
less armoured ones, what's the point in armour? you might as well expend
the points in attack skills and hope to drop the enemy before he/she
attacks you.
One common suggestion made on the entombed list is to have a front/back
rank system. Characters on the front are %75 likely to get hit, while
characters on the back have a penalty to meelee attacks (so that's where
you put your mages and archers), I really hope Jason will either add
this option or do something similar in his next game.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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