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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
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Subject: Re: wraith and phantom help!!
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 13:51:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 13:51:04 1984
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> > 
> > Now, how about those wraiths and phantoms?
> > 
> > -- Clark
> > 
> > "With friends like you, who needs enemies?"
> 
> 
> 
>   1) wraiths  
> 
>       not all that terrible.  there is also an advantage to letting them
> hit you.  let them hit you until you get a message 'you suddenly feel weak'.
> now kill them. upon killing the beasty, you will almost always advance a skill
> level.
> 
>                 chris kracik @ SUNY @ BAHAMAS

There's something missing here.  When you see that message 'you suddenly feel
weaker,' you have just LOST that skill level that you get back when you kill
the Wraith.  Wraiths aren't hard to kill, and if you've just increased a
skill level and got less than five extra hit points, then you may come out
ahead on the exchange, but occasionally a Wraith will suck away fully half
of your experience points.  This can be a real pain, not to mention deadly
when your ep are way up there and you're down a good ways in the dungeon.

When I run into sleeping wraiths, I leave 'em alone.  When they're awake,
I throw things at them until forced to switch to my primary weapon.  Then
I pray that they don't weaken me!  I also use staves of cancellation on 
them if I have more than one.


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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