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Sem
Solid as a Rock
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Posts: 3386
Location: at the Dot |
After hearing quite some people saying how effective Wave of Ice can be when you're playing as a mage, I decided to use the spell as soon as I was able to buy it.
So there I went. To the valley of mines, killing some dragons and I was on my way to kill the last dragon. Anyway I tried the spell on something like five lizardmen that are between one of the mines and the entrance to the ice world.
Here's the problem: It doesn't work!  I know the spell has a pretty short range, so I waited until they were already bashing my skull. A large area of ice appears and seem to freeze the lizardmen, but they just walk out of it and keep attacking me. The icemass stays with nothing frozen in it!  Did anyone else encounter this too? Is it a bug or I'm a just using it wrong. I tried it several times, but it never worked.
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Thu May 20, 2004 8:14 pm |
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kingsorel
Noble Knight
Joined: 22 Apr 2004
Posts: 208
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Have you tried it on orcs? It works on orcs although not great because its rane is short. Lizardman may be immune to ice. |
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Thu May 20, 2004 11:15 pm |
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kingsorel
Noble Knight
Joined: 22 Apr 2004
Posts: 208
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Short of playing the game again, I will quote from the magic guide.
quote:
Ice Wave/Wave of Ice
-MP cost: 60 MP
-Damage: 2 HP
-Learned from: Marduk
-Ingredients: Glacier Quartz, Aquamarine
-Description: A sheet of ice expands out in all directions from where you
are standing, damaging any enemy within, and possibly encasing
them in ice just like the Ice Block spell. However, this
spell cannot freeze some of the stronger enemies that Ice
Block could. For example, Ice Block can freeze Dragon
Snappers, but Wave of Ice CANNOT.
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Fri May 21, 2004 6:36 pm |
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Sem
Solid as a Rock
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Posts: 3386
Location: at the Dot |
Thanks, but than the spells it pretty useless. You can only get it in chapter 5 (the rune I mean) and then there will be nothing weak left that's worth to be frozen.
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Fri May 21, 2004 9:31 pm |
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Joeman
Protector of the Realm
Joined: 03 Jan 2004
Posts: 254
Location: USA |
Weird. For me it usually works pretty well. Sometimes you see a pack of 5 lizardman coming at you, it will freeze 4 of them. Sometimes it will freeze all of them.
The range of the spell is larger than gothic I.
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jmurdock
Old Fogey
Joined: 11 Nov 2003
Posts: 1285
Location: the heart of acadiana they like to call it |
It will catch the closer ones and then you have time to cast something like rain of fire. Worked ok for me. The ones near the edge are still damaged so that rain of fire will finish them off (lizardmen I mean)
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Sun May 23, 2004 2:15 am |
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kingsorel
Noble Knight
Joined: 22 Apr 2004
Posts: 208
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I did a quick replay of the game in order to check. And the result is:
1. wave of ice worked on dragonsnappers. So the observation in the magic guide is off.
2. wave of ice worked also on lizardman.
So I am not sure why SEM got a different result. |
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Sun May 23, 2004 2:28 am |
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Joeman
Protector of the Realm
Joined: 03 Jan 2004
Posts: 254
Location: USA |
quote:
Originally posted by jmurdock
It will catch the closer ones and then you have time to cast something like rain of fire. Worked ok for me. The ones near the edge are still damaged so that rain of fire will finish them off (lizardmen I mean)
long time no see. Did you move on to other games? |
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Sun May 23, 2004 6:27 am |
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kingsorel
Noble Knight
Joined: 22 Apr 2004
Posts: 208
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I also tested it on stone golem. And it inactivated the golem long enough to kill it with a sword.
One test out of three on dragonsnappers did not work well, though. |
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Sun May 23, 2004 2:58 pm |
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jmurdock
Old Fogey
Joined: 11 Nov 2003
Posts: 1285
Location: the heart of acadiana they like to call it |
Been having 'puter troubles. Using sister's 'puter right now so figured I'ld get a little forum in while visiting.
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