MM7Rev4mod A Radical Redone

[Tomsod]

Thief promotion requires taking out strong melee opponents in a small room. Usually I can get that at low level by using invisibility & the gatemaster NPC.
But that npc is not available for hire in this mod (and uses town portal which doesn't work anyway until after the 2nd mage promotion) .

FWIW Town Portal should still teleport to Nighon (and Celeste/Pit if you've progressed the story) even before you "unlock" it (unless DaveHer fixed that). But casting from a scroll will fail with enemies nearby.

In vanilla rescuing the dwarves started a timer which triggered the human/elf war & several tough quest approx 4 months later.
Those quests had a strict time limit.

I don't believe the judge death really blocked anything even in vanilla, IIRC you can still complete human-elf war quests after choosing a new judge. There's one month limit on these quests after taking them, but you don't have to talk to royals right away. In fact I, for one, usually aim to rescue dwarves as soon as possible because there's a mandatory four month wait from there to the second half of the storyline, and I try to spend it productively.

[DaveHer]

Sorry about the strong monsters. They were made stronger by Big Daddy Jim. You are not supposed to go there until you beef up your group.
David

[Lone_Wolf]

For now I'll stick to KTCS (Barbarian Thief Acolyte Mage ) and get to know this mod better as I do like the changes (except the free bows of carnage).

Might even delay promotion quests after completing courier quests (or atleast not turn them in) to see how strong a pre-first-promotion party can become with good gear.
(found heartbreaker & moon strike in B, so have the 2 strongest artifacts already).

[DaveHer]

For now I'll stick to KTCS (Barbarian Thief Acolyte Mage ) and get to know this mod better as I do like the changes (except the free bows of carnage).

Might even delay promotion quests after completing courier quests (or atleast not turn them in) to see how strong a pre-first-promotion party can become with good gear.
(found heartbreaker & moon strike in B, so have the 2 strongest artifacts already).

That is the way to do it. Keep developing your group. Complete all the quests I added to the game. They increase your experience Points.
David

[Lone_Wolf]

Some monsters use Acid Burst .
While that is a water spell, the description of weapons with "of acid" mentions doing body damage .

data/events text/spells.txt list none in the Res column for acid burst, which suggests the damage is physical.

mm7patch readme.txt suggests acid burst was changed to water damage, but also mentions that can be overridden .
That option is not in my mm7.ini, so it should be at default.

How to improve defense against acid burst damage in this mod ?

[Tomsod]

IIRC overriding Acid Burst fix is done through editing spells.txt, not mm7.ini. If the element is "none" it gets changed to water, specifying an actual element leaves it intact.

[Lone_Wolf]

Thank you, Tomsod .

For testing I increased water resistance to 500 for all chars and acid burst does very little now.

Acid burst in this mod (which inlucdes grayface patch) is confirmed to cause Water Damage .

A strong white water resistance potion is looking very attractive now and getting to nighon has moved up the list of things to do.

Party is now at lvl 11 and arena knight battles are doable at level 11 with this gear, but I don't have skill 7 in dagger, leather and alchemy yet .
Would have to train up to lvl 17 or 18 atleast .
Decisions , decisions .