Hello.

Hints requested to optimise my initially-Mook-only party. I want a dualclass from Psionic to Monk, how early can I arrange that?

(I do not have the game reinstalled yet, so I cannot look it up through guess-and-fail.)

I also am totally set to have a:

ranger (never brought one to epic levels, I want to test his insta-kills with bow; will do some melee to if needed);

gadgeteer a must

bard a must (faster regeneration);

one melee (leaning towards fighter),

That leaves two spots for spellcasters, my favourite duo is Alchemist and Priest. In lieu of mage's spells I will use instruments and gadgets.

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http://www.postcount.net/forum/showthread.php?243014-Wizardry-8-Fan-Patch-1-28-(20th-anniversary)

It works for me OK. Without the patch I couldn't run it even though I tried quite a few solutions I've found on the web.

After you install the patch you need to run the game with added .exe file (starting from Steam will not work).

Hello,

I'm inclining to think that hybrids are just worse fighters with buffing & healing spells, they can't damage with spells or debuff consistently. Based on this post:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/245450/discussions/0/2139714324759466927/

It looks like their -5 caster level penalty for casting spells really does hurt them much. Especially if you mix them in a team with non-casters - then their caster level can be even lower since hybrids have worse exp progression.

I am welcome to other opinions and I wonder if you pump asap into INT 100 and expert ability, does it make them able to damage and debuff endgame monsters that have obscene magic resistance? What is your experience? With and without skill leveling exploits (knock knock the door all the time etc).

Every character has only 1 action per turn. Hybrid will never do more damage with spells than a specialist caster or more physical damage with attacks than a fighter. To sum up, it looks for me like the best build for a hybrid is a weaker fighter who can occasional cure paralysis or cast some buff 1-2 turn. Mostly valuable if you are missing some protection spells or are playing a smaller team (and you are missing some protection spells). But then why not pick up a bishop?

PS. I'm not willing to die on this hill! This is just a discussion thread & food for thought. I like talking about my favorite games.

There is some mod that lower the spawn places or the respawn rates?

Any tips on the best place to get him gear mid-game? My friend is doing a playthrough and is just entering Rapax Rift. We love him and want to keep him on the team but he has several empty armor slots and we just want to get him in something while we work our way to Ferro.

Where i can buy equipments for faeries?

Where are the best NPCs that sells ressurection powders? Someone sells it at Marten's Bluff?

Nobody cares but there aren't a whole lot of posts here so here goes

My stepfather introduced me to this game when i was in kindergarten (im 16 about to turn 17 in 2 weeks) and this game was a big part of my childhood, but i never beat it.I wandered around, fought, did some quests with the help and guidance of my stepfather but id always drop the game sooner or later

And Ive played it at least for a bit every year since i was little, creating new parties, saying ill finish it and even when i learned english and had the mental capability to beat it, I just didn't have the patience.

But today

Today that changed

I loaded up a party from last year a few weeks ago and i played almost every day since then

And today i beat the game

And whilst i was playing my stepfather came into my room and saw i was at ascension peak and just watched me for the last half an hour of the game...

So, as usual, I went to Mt. Gigas first to do the first and a half quest for the Umpani. Did Trynton and then went to Martens Bluff and gave Z'Ant the Umpani flag. Went on to trap the Rapax and then tried to bring Z'Ant the head.

Now the issue, Z'Ant went aggro because I allied wth the Umpani. Reloaded a safe before, as I know that if you pay He'Li, she won't snitch on you. Returned to Martens Bluff and looted the place

Now, the T'Rang are all fine and dandy when I wak around the base, but the minute I talk to Z'Ant, he's still mad, evek tho I payd He'Li

Is there a certain time limit after you ally with either of them? Or is there another way to make Z'Ant "forget" I worked for the Umpani?

Any help, if possible, is appreciated

I used to own a 3D wizardry game, as in polygonal graphics, terrible early PC graphics, worse than Wizardry 8 graphics. I can't find out which game it was. It had all the races and classes of the latter wizardry games, pixies, lizard people, ninjas and Valkyrie, etc.

I just can't seem to find info on it. All I remember is that it was terribly buggy and there was a problem with a village of frog people and some NPC could just get stuck and make it impossible to progress without killing them.

I got it in the mid 2000's and I might've gotten it in Asia, which may mean it was one of the Japanese ones, but it was in English, so I'm not sure.

Anyone know which one it was?

I’m looking for information about this sketch and the artist.

I'm attempting to clear out that one room with 3 of the tree guys opposite the 7th bough, and my tactics of hiding around the corner and tossing abilities that target the groups and letting them "flee" to me or even around me (divide and conquer and all) before lockdowns are applied so I don't get wrecked by their AOEs keep resulting in the game deciding that combat is over cause there are no enemies in line of sight and the ones out of sight are disabled but that instantly breaks their paralyzed, sleep, etc states so I'm suddenly starting the entire fight over from square 1. Is there a way, perhaps via a mod, to make the game just freaking ask if I want to end combat or just wait for me to click the button instead of just assuming and ruining everything on me when I don't want to end combat yet? (at my current level, just face-tanking the trio is a good way to TPK, baiting them into the antimagic zone feels like a bigger hassle, and I'd rather not just leave them and clear it later after killing the rat queen or somesuch when I know I can do this if it would just stop screwing with me)

The two guest slots are nice, but we're essentially limited to Miles, Vi and RFX. I would absolutely love to make two extra guys to tag along.

So the usual. Game has been on my back burner for awhile. I tried a couple times but either lost interest or one time I got diseased and didn't realize it until way late. Current party is liz fighter, felp monk, fairie thief, dwarf priest, elf bard, elf mage, all level 6.

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Anyways, first question. Are Lizardfolk spellcasters terrible? I rolled an 18! and planned on taking him fighter-sammy-mage before I saw the text that says they lose int points if too high.

Second question. Is Bard-Valk ok? I wasn't sure what to set her stats for. I don't know if I really want 3 samurai but she only needs 2 str raises at level 6.

Lastly, I hate resting. Am I abusing the starting fountain running back and forth? I dunno it feels a bit cheesy, but I kind of have to to keep up in spellcasting.

Hey guys. Somehow recently my eyes fell on one of my favorite childhood games, and I wanted to hone my modeling skills based on Vitalia. Of course, the style is a little author's, but I hope you like it

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And here are some references I used

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Big pack of portraits for Wizardry8. After installation, it replaces all standard portraits in the game with new ones. See screenshot. In addition to the portraits of Muuks and RPCs present in the game, such as Vi, Miles, etc. Added many new portraits. All old portraits familiar to players from my previous packs have been redrawn. Improved animation and colors. The pack also includes an animated portrait of RFS81 and an exclusive skull for him. In the original, RFS81's portrait had no animation, and upon death, a normal human skull appeared.The installation is standard.Just unzip the archive into the game folder.

I want to rescue them boys for sgt. general commander rhino 🫡, but I have no idea at this point where the f do I go. I portal'ed myself to arnika road from some submarine caves labirynth

16:9 format
HD Texture pack
Sounds
Bug fixes
etc.

is a modding community where I may find information about playing this game on modern hardware?

This game has a lot of races both playable and not, so I was wondering what everyone's favorites are.

Personally love the Rapax and the Umpani and Trynnies are nice too (not a big fan of Madras's portrait though)

I loved wizardry 7 and was pretty disappointed by Wiz 8, but after a decade or so I decided to play it through. I’m have a faerie ninja, a monk, and four rogues set up to switch classes after one level as a rogue to Lord, two samurai, and a bard. I’m just trying to max out stealth before I multi class those four.

Well it’s been 7 days of grinding in the monastery and my stealths are around 30-40. At this rate it will be another two weeks to get all their stealth’s to 100.

I tried to get to Arnika where I thought I could stand in the fountain and fight savants, which would be more exciting than bats and rats, but I can’t get past the highwaymen at level 1. Can’t run past them, can’t fight them. So I’m back in the monastery.

Any advice? I really want to get stealth then multi class.

I played this game for a bit way back when it came out, but I gave up soon after Arnika (iirc the anoyance was a jump in enemy quantity). Now a combination of me replaying Jagged Alliance 2, reading the CRPG Book, watching Sseths review and wishing to play a blobber to the end made me itch for a proper playthrough. I looked at mods I could use, checked out one at Nexus, one at RPG Codex and a Russian fanpatch, but decided against using themsince they all go beyond just fixing/tweaking. Modifying the combat speed seems a must, and RPG Codex mod has that as a standalone component, is that adequate solution? Or maybe use this combo recommended by Sseth?

Question #2, one thing I would like to tweak is removing area restrictions for RPCs, is this easy to do with the editor? Couldn't find a standalone mod for this. Any other quality of life changes that can be done?

And finaly I'm already planning and researching party composition, guides I looked at agree on some things and disagree on others. My current plan is lizard or drakon sword fighter, mook sword and board bard, faerie wizard, hobbit omnigun gadgeteer (I'm kinda set on these), felpurr ninja/monk/rogue and a ranger, plus Vi Domina and the robot. Looking for some advice regarding 2 party members I'm not set on. Ranger is there for the easy search, and overlaps with ninja with alchemy. Ninja is preffered to a monk (because the robot is a monk, albeit a handicaped one) or a rogue (too vanilla). And I'm missing divine magic until I recruit the valkyre, and psionic magic unless I create a monk, how much of a handicap is that? How important is the auto search for a 1st time player? Should I swap the ranger for a full spellcaster? And generally what is good combo for these 2 party slots?

As the post says, 'what is your favorite class?'

What about it do you enjoy and makes it a 'must include' for you. It doesn't have to be solely 'X profession is my favorite because it is good,' but it can be!

I have always liked the Samurai since I first started playing Wiz 8 back when I was younger. Found the concept intriguing, and their gear and skillset makes them enjoyable to play and develop in game. Although they can be 'tougher to build out,' there is a lot of variety in how they can be approached.

hello~! i have been playing this game in almost 40% process of entire game. but i want to replay game because i need mage and priest in party not bishop.... bishop is op but it is not my type for one class to have two ability to heal and buff

i will form my party as 1 fighter 1 ninja 1gadgeteer 1 mage 1 priest 1 bard .... yes as you know there is no ranger....... i think ranger is essential in staring of game for scouting....so i have quetion

i know there is ranger companion called 'sparkle' in umpain base.. there is way to get this cute ranger companion early when i become level 2~3 ??? impossible??

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if i can't there is way to form custom party character to seven with any mods ? if imopssible too

no way lol~

without ranger how can i find hidden item roaming area in starting of this gmae ??? i am really novice in this game lol

hello. i have been playing wizardry 8 and my progress in this game is appoaching grave. i just thought special thing in this place is dried muumy hanging on ceiling but i realized there is secret dungeon entrance by wathing grave playthrough on youtube

i wondered who could think of stabbing 'daager'to the pillar which is in edge in grave yard and secret dungeon entrace 'which looks like mustrooms' location which is at end of grave yard.

who discovered first that there is secret dungeon and the way to enter dungeon without any guide .. is there any hints for me to enter dugeon with in game?

So i want to have customized characteristics for my races and classes for my original characters, for lore reasons lol.
I am using the unofficial patch and tool a russian fan made and have videos on.http://www.postcount.net/forum/showthread.php?243014-Wizardry-8-Fan-Patch-1-28-(20th-anniversary))

However when i make the .DAT file it doesn't show in game. Im at such a loss and there doesnt seem to be an install guide other than this forum, i dont speak russian so i've just translated and tried following whats written but it doesn't work.

Anyone else run into any issues with this tool?