Temple of Elemental Evil discussion thread (merged)

[DM2]

Burne sells scrolls back in Hommlet. Thats all I know of.

Oh, and if your cleric or druid have picked up scribe scroll, they can scribe scrolls of spells like bull's strength for your wizard.

The game doesn't differentiate between arcane and divine scrolls, so your wizard can copy them.

My favorite thing right now is crafting items. My wizard has a number of wands (never just stands around in combat now...he's at least casting magic missiles).

Also, wands of identify only cost 300 GP, and those 50 identifications don't cost 100 each.

DM2

 

[Thanee]

Yeah, got some scrolls there and Spugnoir can do some more useful stuff now (he did learn some spells himself at higher levels, so he finally had spells in every level at 9th, previously he could basically only cast Magic Missile and Cat's Grace for me, altho he had free slots, then he learned Dispel Magic and later Ice Storm and Cone of Cold, now he has a better selection ).

Unfortunately, to be able to speak with Burne, I had to drop (and then kill, because he attacked me) my Hill Giant NPC, which I picked up in the temple. That one was quite cool.

I have Craft Wondrous Items (Cleric, and as I noticed Spugnoir got that too) and Craft Magic Arms and Armor (Sorcerer), too bad I don't have both on the same caster, so I cannot craft Bracers of Archery, which would've been nice.

It's a huge difference with crafting your own items!

I noticed, however, that crafting arms and armor is buggy, a +3 weapon or armor is the same as +2.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

I posted to this thread waaaaaaaaay back in the beginning. That said, my initial enthusiasm for this game has faded in the face of numerous bugs. Troika plans to have a patch out by Oct. 23rd. I think I'll take a temporary hiatus from the game till then . . .

Exactly what I've been doing...

 

[DM2]

Guess I've been lucky...few bugs here and there, but nothing game stopping.

I'm in the actual temple now, and loving it.

I am using the co8 patch though, which may be helping.

DM2

 

[Bass Puppet]

Picked up the game here yesterday (sale) and Fiddled a little bit till the patch comes out on the 23rd. I've just upgraded my system to a 2.4AMD with a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128mB AGP, 512 DDR 333 Memory and a M-Audio's Delta 1010LT Sound Card on a Windows 2000 Pro OS. The Music and Sound F/X are amazing. I look forward to diving into this game next week.

 

[Jeremy]

This thread's probably a little unwieldy for a question like this, I don't know who'll read through this many pages and notice a question, but hey, I can always post it again.

After getting the golden skull of uber badness and consulting Burne, he's given me a way to destroy it and says that this is something that really needs to be done and I really want to do.

The instructions are great if I were playing D&D. Unfortunately they are incredibly vauge if playing a CRPG. Basically it's a hit it with the 4 elements thing. I think I've got the earth hammer it wants, but I have no idea what to supply the water or air with, unless it was the gust of wind scroll that I already had Spugnoir scribe. And the fire is supposed to be supplied by a powerful fire spell on a scroll. What? Flamestrike? Fireball?

Anyone got more detailed information on how to do this? I know it's not necessary to beat the game as the game is wonderfully flexible in the number of ways you can complete it, but I wanna break it!

 

[hong]

Argh. I'm in the moathouse, on level 3 (the crypt with the ghouls). I can dispose of the ghouls without too much trouble, but when I try to explore further, I get a consistent crash to desktop. It's happened four times so far, in almost exactly the same area.

Anyone else experiencing CTDs in the moathouse area? I've installed the Circle of 8's patch if that helps.

The Event Viewer (I'm running Windows XP Pro) also has the following message: "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block." How do I figure out which device it means by \device\harddisk0\D -- is that the hard disk, and not the DVD drive or anything else? I'm hoping it's not really a bad sector on the HD. I've had no problems with it in the last 3 years, and it seems too much like a coincidence that it's crashing with this particular game.

 

[dravot]

Argh. I'm in the moathouse, on level 3 (the crypt with the ghouls). I can dispose of the ghouls without too much trouble, but when I try to explore further, I get a consistent crash to desktop. It's happened four times so far, in almost exactly the same area.

Semi-spoiler: The ghoul area has two entrances (or exits, I guess). Can you get to the ghouls from the other direction?

 

[Clumsy Bob]

Argh. I'm in the moathouse, on level 3 (the crypt with the ghouls). I can dispose of the ghouls without too much trouble, but when I try to explore further, I get a consistent crash to desktop. It's happened four times so far, in almost exactly the same area.

Anyone else experiencing CTDs in the moathouse area? I've installed the Circle of 8's patch if that helps.
QUOTE]

Although not in the area you are in I constantly experienced CTD's when I used a dagger of venom, every time the PC attacked the game crashed. Remedy, stopped using the dagger of venom.
Did you change any equitment around after the ghouls? Or perhaps try using an earlier save of the game.
Let us know how you get on.

Bob

 

[Dreeble]

Jeremy:

Spoiler

You're right that you needed that Gust of Wind scroll. Unfortunately, you can't scribe a Gust of Wind scroll. Unless a Circle of Eight patch fixed this (and they probably did fix it), or the official patch fixes it.

Good luck,
Dreeble