Chapter VI "A date with Capt. Jack Sparrow"
Lets recap:
We are lvl 5 [~7100exp points], our next level is ready and flashing green with points to spare when we need them and we have a lot of money..
Shopping time
Here is a list of things I suggest to buy:
Spells:
- Divine Heal
- Bless
- Draw Water
- Enkindeled Weapon
- Dense Nimbus
- Cat's Eyes or Gravediggers Flame [or both for even better effect]
Strongman's Belt [if your STR is below 9]
Milrith Arrows (33 will be nice)
[In Port Kuudad diamond tip arrows also appear on sale but rarely and in small numbers]
Sorcerer's Hat (+2 Elemental +3 PER)
Rings & Amulets:
2x Mystic Ring (+2 Elemental)
2x Ring of intense focus (+5 CON)
Sharpeye pendant
Manaflow pendant (if you haven't bought it yet)
Books:
Master's Guide to Bow.
Elements of Magic.
Potions:
Haste I (1)
Keensight (1)
Mana & Health if you want to.
Training:
Elemental to lvl 8
[If you are not very familiar with the game yet, training cartography to 8 or even 10 (+2book) is a good choice]
Also take 3600gold with you for our Bow skill training on the way.
Time to finally advance to our 6th level.
Add:
5points in INT
4 points in Elemental (10+4) [after training and reading the book]
save the 7 stat points for the next level.
Quick travel to Everdale and head west to Fletcher's Grove to train our bow skill to lvl 8, after that read the book for another 2 points.
10 points in Bow skill allows us to use the Intense Focus feat which tripples the damage and is a guaranteed hit. [be sure to use power attack mode for this for another 30%] We seem to be still missing a bow so gladly accept the Hunter's quest. Exit the grove and keep going west, following the path, untill you reach a sign pointing to Broken Blade and Raven's Gate.
We want to go to the latter so follow the road on your left.
Along the way you will encounter a ruined cementary and remains of a church, both populated by 7 Outlanders in total, casting fleshboil lvl6 twice on each one will quickly dispose of them. Rest to regain mana if you need and continue going west along the path, 4 more of them will appear.
Once they are all dead keep walking towards the woods untill you notice another sign near some rocks. There are 3 Red Wolves roaming around get rid of them and keep going west along the forest road, there will be small path leading to a chest guarded by 2 more wolves.
All that killing gives us a thousand exp. points so it was well worth it.
Go north to the next sector, again keep following the path, you shall see an entrance to the Raven's gate and a quick travel monolith on your right, click on it to add the location to your list.
Keep going north between the mountains and woods untill you reach the coast the turn right to enter the next sector.
[Save your game]
Go south near the chest towards the middle of the map, you will notice a big hole in the ground, on the left side of it there is a Goliath Borehead.
Kill it with the same tactic as the trolls [from afar], they do not resist magic but they do use a sonic blast spell that will make you stand still for 4 turns and if they strike you when you are stunned - you recieve double damage.
Put on the manaflow pendant to increase our magic resistance to that nasty spell and cast fleshboil lvl6 untill that beetle is dead.
He drops a very scared peice of wood which is the quest item we need for the Hunter in Fletcher's Grove. Before we quick travel there - kill the 2 Goliath Boreheads that are wandering around - this will put us at 9000exp points. Go and claim your reward - a Warmoth bow which is a unique weapon and 1000exp. [lvl up!]
Since we don't want to be forced to wear our Harry Potter hat and swap
rings every time we want to cast Enkindeled Weapon we shall contine adding points into elemental skill (14+3)
10stat points we have gathered I suggest putting into Perception because if manage to raise it up to 70 during our playthrough, we will be regenerating 5 mana points every round.
If you are doing things just like me - you should now have exactly 150 mana points. [170 with the mana pendant]
Warmoth weights only 3lbs so as long as we have at least 9 STR [1/3 rule]
we can cast spells while we have it equipped.
This is exactly what we needed =]
Our next target is Broken Blade town, which is overrun by Goliath Boreheads.
[There is 23 (we killed 3 already) of them in total in Fellpine Forest and the surrounding areas and since they give a lot of exp. points and are involved in another sub quest that gives us a unique axe, so just like pokemon -
we want to kill them all.] But first things first.
Go back to the location with the hole in the ground where we've been before and head east. [Save your game] A good tactic to kill the beetles that are ahead (3) is one by one, from afar, have your Intense Focus, power attack, bless and enkindeled weapon, fleshboil spells ready.
Simply shoot the target with your special attack and finish him up with a few casts of fleshboil. The arrow should take from half to 2/3 of his health
[may vary depending on your stats] and the Borehead will be still too far away to hit you when keep casting fleshboils to finish him up.
While it is possible to kill those Goliaths just by the use of fleshboil itself,
the above tactic is much more safer since it takes you less rounds to kill one, especially if you fail a magic resistance roll against sonic blast.
After each kill, run away and rest for your mana to regenerate and your feat attack to be ready and save your game.
Once you despose of all 3, go north to Broken Blade.
Keep repeating this method untill the area is clear of foes.
[Remember to activate the quick travel monolith in the middle of the town]
Past of what's left of Broken Blade (north east-ish) is a house with a npc insice. But before you get your hopes up for an autograpgh from Johnny Deep - save your game.
Unfortunately Sparrow has joined the dark side of the force and will attack us as soon as the coversation ends.
She is immune to the effects of entangle, sonic blast, and very successfully avoids fleshboil spell damage, so it will be a lot easier for us to kill her using weapons. What we want to do is stand near her
[but not right next to her to avoid the point blank range penalty]
Switch to your sharpeye pendant and rings of focus.
Ready your power attack, cast Bless, Enkindeled Weapon, Dense Nimbus drink potion of keensight, haste and talk with her.
When combat begins - attack her with our special attack and follow up with normal attacks untill she is dead. [+400exp.]
If necessary heal yourself with divine heal.
Take the key she drops [+1000exp] and enter her bedroom, there is a citizen writ in the chest of drawers next to the bed - we need that to get past the Raven's Gate. Before we go there we want to finish our Goliath Borehead hunting season - the goal is to reach 17400exp.
[We had 10.000exp after getting the bow (killed 3 beetles in the proccess ) that leaves 20 (20x300exp = 6000) 400exp. for killing Sparrow,
1000exp. for getting the key]
The Goliath Boreheads that are easy to miss are:
1 in Mistfell Northern Coast (follow the path to the destroyed bridge)
1 far east in Eastern Fellpine Forest
and another 1 also in EFF south of the way that leads north to Broken Blade
Now that all 23 are dead quick travel to Port Kuudad and talk to the mage in the Temple of Atna. [+2500exp & Hexedge unique axe] (lvl up)
Phew that a took long time to write, feel free to make enough money to train your axe skill to 8+2Book (An axe to grind) + Viscerator amulet if you want to, untill we meet again =]
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