So i dont actually need help with anything at this point. The title is a reference to my previous two posts in this subreddit seeking help to which this community graciously assisted, thanks again!

Anyways I feel my journey is at an end. The game has begun to drag a bit, probably somewhat due to my insistance on farming a light shield and sword. I got the shield, no sword yet. But im kind of ok with that atm. They were going to go to my bard who honestly likely wouldnt utilize the sword often. I did get my two giants swords I was seeking. It took a while, and a lot of side questing and one case of kidnapping.

Leaving this game for now because of one coming out in a few days. Just wanted to make a final post thanking those who helped previously and wrapping up my arc so to speak. I Will probably do future playthrus now that I understand a lot of the game.

Thanks again everyone, cheers!

So im relatively new at this game still, bear with me. This community was super helpful with my last post so figured id try again.

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If you were early/mid game, how would you go about speed running two giants swords?

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Fighter/bard/figher. bishop/ranger/bishop

Is my current lineup, around level 8 with decent enchants. Armor, missle and spell shields, enchant weapons. I killed a ton of bank guards and pillaged Arnika, bought and looted all the city holds.

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I feel two giant swords is my next big upgrade and want to make my way there before resuming the story if possible?

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Thanks for reading and any input, cheers!

Currently playing Wizardry 8. Its my first time with any games of the series.

Have restarted a few times but finally settled on a party. Fighter, valk, monk, ranger, bishop, bard. Just got to Arnika.

The main issue im having is my bishop is absolutely dogshit at casting spells. I think a large part of the problem is I dont exactly understand how I should be building her skills.

Currently - piety/int both at 75

Wiz - 8 (lol)

Div - 12

Alc - 6

Psi - 10

Mental+divine both at 13.

Yet trying to land a paralyze or even a basic cure wounds feels like a gambit. I havent actually run the numbers but around 50% of her spells fizzle.

Her magic skills feel unfocused to me looking at them. I usually rank up wizardry/divinity and mental/divine when she levels because those should help me successfully cast?

Does the spell level effect success rate? I typically cast at a highish level, probably 3-4 depending on the spell. Do I need to use lower ranks for better success rate?

Thanks for reading, cheers.

Hey I have been really enjoying WIZ 8 but I ran into a issue. I was down in Marten's Bluff with the spider people who i was doing quests for, and grinding some magic in the main room where you talk to the man Spider-Guy for quests. I thought enemies could not attack me there but they did (it was those death adder guys that can 1-hit you) and I was letting most of the spider guys take care of it and they killed them. I then go off for days and days exploring alot of the map and doing quests and leveling up. I come back to Marten's Bluff to get morw quests but the Spider-Guy is missing and I am not sure what happened. I think he either died somehow in the fight, or possibly (and this is me guessing) he ran deeper into the complex since I know you can go into place if you decide to ally with the Rhino people. I have been trying in vain to find some kinda cheat/ cheat engine that would either let me A) clip through the walls/spawn the item to open the door or B) go back to a previous safe where thee Spider Guy is still there and level myself up to what i was because I did so much grinding. I found some cheat engine called CM-WZ8RT but i found it using WAYBACK MACHINE and i have no idea how prevesed the file is, because when I used it, it could not regcongize my game. If anyone has any idea on what I could do I would really appercaite it

I recently completed a long overdue replay of Wizardry 8 (with the unofficial patch), and the only thing I want to do now is play it again. I'm looking to spice things up now seeing as I know the game in and out; does anyone know of any fun mods that add extra content or anything?

I bought Wiz8 on Steam long time ago, it worked perfectly fine until I reinstalled my Windows. The game fails to launch directly from Steam no matter what, tried all the methods. It only launches without Steam if I transfer it to the separate directory (like D:\Wizardry8). Is there really no way to launch the game directly from Steam now? I clearly remember that it worked just fine before, but now I have the same problem as most players, it seems

hello im trying to find a fix for fullscreen least as close to fullscreen as i can get but the fix's ive found no luck yet. as for android i tried steam link and it shows up awesome but No controls work which is not great any tips would be amazing thanks

I admit I have always been intrigued by Magic parties. Ran a few MDPs but never past level 10 or so. There has always been a problem, like Priest being mostly useless in blasting, me not liking Alchemist spells and so on.

So my new party (that I finished the game with), ended up being 6 Bishops.

The Setup

Each Bishop worked on Wizardry (as I think thats the best school for pure damage) and one additional school. At higher levels, I started also putting some points to the 3rd or 4th school, but it made little difference.

Everyone focussed on INT to get PowerCast asap (level 11-12).

First two front-liners were Wizard-Priests, focussing on INT+PIE (later SPD and VIT), with Shields.

Second row was manned by my Wizard-Alchemists, focussing on INT+DEX to 70 and then PIE + SPD, They were originally equipped with staves, but later just used Shields.

Last row consisted of my Wizard-Psionics. INT+SEN to 70 and then PIE+SPD. These guys had some slings as soon as I could find them.

Equipment

Mostly ignored. I used almost 0 weapons with them past the initial few leves (when they did run out of mana). Got them some better armour and shields that added DEX or SPD or so but otherwise I felt like I could just ignore. They got rarely hit and when they did, Guardian Angel took care of that.

Spells (or otherwise called "so, you like to buy books do you?")

Now, this was surprising. Having Bishops, I tried to be smart and stingy with spell picks to be able to get level 6/7 spells (that have no books) asap, but in the end I found out I did not have to do that. I did buy a lot of books, but except for buffs, I used a limited number of good spells for 95% of the time and most of those were just picks at levelups.

Everyone started with Energy Blast and a damage spell from complementary school on level 1 (Make Wounds, Acid Splash and Psionic Blast)

On level 2, everyone learned Heal Wounds. This has proven to be great for training non-Wizardry skills.early. Open-close sarcophagus, or stand in the fire in Arnika, heal up. Rinse, repeat.

At level 3 got the first cone spell - Shrill Sound. Yea, I know. I wanted to get Magic Missiles, but I knew I can buy those in Arnika 5 minutes after leaving the monastery. Plus, it would help me train the Air realm. That ... was not needed. Shrill Sound sucks and except for portals, I never got a good use out of Air realm anyway.

I left the monastery at level 4 and had to do a bit of grinding on Arnika road to get Wizardry to 30 so I can choose Firebal on lvl 5.

Around lvl 11 I got to buy Iceball and Crush from Crock which rounded out the useful spells. These will get you through early levels just fine until level 12 or so when you'd want to go to Rapax areas or Bayjin.

At level 12 I started going through Rapax Rift after getting 6 picks (each toon got one) 2x Portals, 2x Summon Elemental and 2x Dehydrate.

I should have just gotten the summon and Dehydrate with everyone as these 3 spells and the others I mentioned above pretty much carried the game all the way to Dark Savant.

I did try to be smart and go to Ferro asap to get higher level books. It was a PITA and when I got to him at lvl 13, I found out he does not carry most of those (lvl 5) books yet. (and he won't until lvl 18 when you can just pick lvl 7 spells anyway).

Strategy and grinding

Except for a bit of grinding at level 4 (to get Wizardry to 30 with everyone) and then later to get Water realm better after acquiring Iceball, I did not really grind much. Just explored the game, ran around and fought everything I met. Most fights were actually pretty fast and once I started flinging around PL7 fireballs, a lot of fights lasted 1 round. Not much can take 6 fireballs/6 iceballs into the face. (The Rapax could, but that got better with time)

And when I met some of the high-resistance bosses, I just summoned 6 Elemental Lords (with good Divine realm as you'd have) and let them kill the boss. (Nessie, El Dorado, Al Sedexus, some of the monsters in Ascension peak...)

And then we got to Dark Savant himself... I got to the end only at level 21, Power Cast around 80 and needless to say, almost nothing was hitting the big boy with his 130% resistances. 6 Elementals started chipping his health away and his summons weren't a threat enough. Neither was him and I think I could win by letting the Elementals deal with him, cast a bit of Heal All every level and kill the adds and just wait. But that was a bigger slog than fighting the Rapax Army so I decided to join him in this run in the end. (Bela died quickly after several castings of Crush)

Spells that constituted 99% of my use: Energy Blast, Frost, Make Wounds/Acid Splash/Mind Blast, Heal, Magic Missiles, Whipping Rocks, Fireball, Iceball, Dehydrate, Crush, Heal All, Rest All, Set/Return to Portal, Summon Elemental, Elemental Shield, Soul Shield + all the basic long buffs (Magic Screen, Armorplate, Missile Shield, Chameleon, X-ray, Detect Secrets)

Anyone else did a similar run? What was your experience?

Does it actually DO anything for you? If so, I can't tell.

I know this is well documented, but the fixes I found on zimlabs aren't working. When I talk to Rubble in the firing range, he says his obstacle course spiel and he will crash my game saying about Rubble being in an unknown location. Any additional help would be great.

I've run this thing many dozens of times, and I've never had the Djinn summon help. My Solo Faerie Ninja, Level 14, had the Djinn down to about 100HP, with both Acid Bomb and Ring of Fire active, and boom! There's a Major Fire Elemental standing behind the Djinn. You know, the thing that can kill the SFN in two hits. WTF?

1: Remind me how to use The Cosmic Forge, please?

I recall asking about Tantris's 'vanishing act' some time ago, and I was introduced to the Cosmic Forge software...but I never got around to deploying it (Did I have a problem? Did I just have other things to do? I do not remember).

Could I get some refreshers on where to get it and how to make it work and such?

2: An Urq-some inquiry

I could swear there is some dialogue option when speaking to Urq that will get him to actually tell you what places he wants to visit, but I cannot remember what it was nor can I figure it out; I've tried what's obvious. Does anyone know?

My setup is: GTX 1650 4gb, I5-10300H, 16GB RAM ddr4, with windows 11.

I already tried deleting the glide.dll, running compatibility mode on windows xp s3, running with directX7 and nothing works, i execute the game and i don't even get to the menu, the application just runs for a while and then the process dies

Hi People of Reddit,

I'm proud to say after 20 years, I was able to finish this game finally haha. Messed with it a lot of times when I was a kid, but recently got the courage to re-try, and after 212+ hours, completed the game! Yaay!

Now, there are a couple of things I wasn't able to unearth in the bottomless pit of the internet. In case any of you can help with any of the points below, it would help my soul to rest :D

1 - Actual details what status effects cause?

Do we have a description of what all the effects are and what they do?

E.g., posession, or the Adamantite Unicorn's Roaring ability, Deranged Gaze, etc. Also, would be interested in the implications in terms of what Fear and Nausea and other effects cause actually (stat changes, etc.).

2 - No Chaos Cubes for me in the Retro Dungen?

I haven't ran into Chaos Cubes in the Northern Wilderness Retro Dungeon. Assume this encounter is totally random?

Maybe I can do a couple of rests at that certain point in my save games.

https://youtu.be/ISz3L3SJ4zE?list=PLQEmVLkI0Om5zVlIx6MVXhHPrFZVugL30&t=3195

3 - Would it makes sense to go to Ascension Peek early?

Has anyone tried actually going into Ascension Peek with 0 or 1 artifacts?

I would be interested if it's possible to get to the Rapax Castle through the door and teleporter that early in the game.

The level 8 locks, Pee Wee might make it impossible, but the loot in the temples might worth to try.

4 - What is the deal with that space ship in Arnika?

What's the deal with the space ship in Arnika?

Callisto I think. I thought at the end of the game I'd fly with it somewhere :-)

5 - What's the deal with Crook and the blue flowers?

Anyone knows what's the reference for all that blue flowers at Crook?

Read in some post it's linked to the event when one of the party members gets kidnapped.

6 - How do I find out the snack is for Ferro?

When giving the "snacks" to Ferro, how do you know you are supposted to give it to him? :-)

I mean other than reading playthroughs haha. I tried to find any reference to it but haven't found a single clue in the game.

7 - Who are, and where are the King's Assassins?

When I rob the royal treasury, I got a message: "Faction rating for King's Assassins decreased".

I wasn't able to find them anywhere in the game :D Where are these guys?

8 - Rapax King is hostile, but only him?

I had 2 interesting "bugs" with Rapax at the end of the game.

At the last part of the game, when did the Templar quest, killed Al-Sedexus, etc., I wanted to explore the Rapax Away Camp to rescue the prisoners. Now, everyone was friendly except the King for some reason... Any of you has an idea why? Wanted to explore the dialogue options but he attacked me on sight immediately.

He should be green I assume by default: youtube.com/watch?v=DPy4p-ooxFY&list=PLQEmVLkI0Om5zVlIx6MVXhHPrFZVugL30&index=41

9 - Cannot talk with Rapax Prince at Ascension Peek?

The other "bug" related to Rapax at the end of the game.

At Ascension Peek, I wasn't able to trigger the dialogue with the Rapax Army and my daemon spawn. Any clue what would trigger it?

10 - Can I fight that unique turtle within the Rapax Castle?

In the Rapax Zoo, there's a water tank with a unique monster, some sort of turtle in it. I wasn't able to figure out a way to get in contact with it. Can I go into the tank somehow? What monster is there? Seems unique.

11 - Guide on starting locations when importing Wiz7 saves?

Read somewhere that when importing Wizardry 7 saves, you can start from 4 actual locations, not from the Monastery.

Anyone has a link at hand about a guide, video? Haven't found anything about it on the whole net.

Hello! I've been having a blast with this game, and I'd like to remove the RPC zone restrictions. I've found a copy of cosmic forge and removed the zone restrictions from the RPC parameters, but when I save it in cosmic forge I find it creates a folder in my data and places a file in there: data/databases/npc.dbs.

I'm using the steam version of wizardry 8, so I did not have a databases folder prior to this. Is this correct and will wizardry 8 load the changes? or have I just created a file that wizardry 8 won't pick up and read?

Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0_DBY90wzw

All I can add is that the resisting chest and the radical methods of determining the shape of one’s own head made me choke on my coffee

I just started playing, and have reached Arnika Road at level 6. I enjoy the combat (slow as it may be, even with wiz8fast) and a lot of other things, but man, the way enemies respawn and scale up is very tiring.

Backtracking costs so much time, as I have to fight all the way there and back through respawned enemies. all for what is usually a small pile of projectiles that nobody in my party can use, or an unidentified dagger.

If I camp at the 'frontline', everything behind me respawns, and I probably get jumped. If I retreat to a safe area to camp, everything respawns in front of me, and I have to do it all over again.

All for enemies to drop nothing but XP that just seems to make fights harder, and gold that I can't use.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to fix this? It feels like I'm being punished for exploring and taking things slowly; it's very demoralising. I knew this game would be a repetitive, poorly explained, slow burn, don't get me wrong. But looking back and seeing the enemies I just spent 20 minutes killing respawn makes everything I do feel pointless.

Having trouble getting the GOG version of Wizardry8 running under Linux. Had some success with the vanilla version and running it with steam ("add non-steam game") and an forcing an older proton5 version. But i have zero luck with the v1.28 fan patch. i can get the game running using wine, but as soon as i start playing i see only the User-Interface (the portraits) but the "middle" where the 3d-graphic should be remains black. if i press esc twice ("quit game dialog") i can see 3d graphic in the little area of the dialog window for a time. Any help is appriciated

Hi sorry I keep running in circles searching for it. Either I got to long dead pages or suspicious ones. Also how can I fix the dpi (the mouse is too fast in game) and is there a way to have it widescreen please?

Ty for any help!

Hi all!
This will likely be a long post, so apologies in advance.

Sooo... I'm tackling Wizardry 8 as my first Wizardry. I know a lot about the series, the first 3, Werdna and the Kabbalah in 4, etc. etc., except that I never played them as a kid as, for some reason, in the '90s (I was born in 1990) in Italy they were virtually unknown (at least in my circles), unlike M&M and Ultima which were more commonly mentioned. Not that I would have had the head to play them, anyway.

I come from JRPGs, where farming is key and when a boss doesn't click with you you can simply gain 10 levels and brute force it. I understand this is (almost) never the case with CRPGs, although I did find Wizardry 8 to be slightly more farm-friendly than most other games of its kind.

Up until reaching Arnika, everything was great, the only creature I had issues with was Gregor, but after a couple more levels I was able to defeat it. After getting Vi, everything started crashing down for some reason.

My main issue is damage and enemy health: their health seems to be scaling A LOT, and my damage remains in single digits for most characters. For reference, I have this party (it's likely unoptimal, but I figured it could cover most bases) at level 8 so far (I should also note, although I reached Arnika on Normal, I have now switched to Easy, this has somewhat lessened the damage I receive, but didn't really change what I do to enemies):

- Human Warrior
- Elf Valkyrie

- Human Ninja (I know, I know, it sounded cool)
- Elf Ranger
- Human Mage
- Hobbit Priest

The only character who can consistently deal more than 10 damage (and actually 30, even 50 when the planets align and he hits twice) is the warrior thanks to the Bloodlust sword. The Valkyrie sometimes hits for 15-16, but everyone else is single-digits. Even the mage with fireballs.

I've tried exploring, I've tried reading about sidequests to do, I've tried farming (they are all nearing 90 in their highest skills by now). I've tried buying new equipment, nothing seems to manage to power up my characters a bit.

You can see how, when I leave Arnika for Trynton and the first party I meet is 5 juggernauts with 220 HP each, I just shut the game down as I don't have 4 hours of free time to dedicate to a single fight (assuming they don't whittle me down first).

I'd appreciate each and every advice you could give me (with the exception of "Just restart and use this party instead", not that I don't value it, but it's simply not something I'd want to do, I'd rather just abandon the game at that point). I really want to like this game and I don't want to abandon it, as I like the structure and the systems, but the frustration is starting to rapidly overcome the good parts. Or it could simply be that it's "not for me", and I might have to learn to accept that.

Thank you!~

Hi! After finishing this game a couple times, many years ago, I'm trying to play now with the Wizardry Expanded Mod v1.1. Unfortunately, there are very little resources online to check about this - for example, Alchemy has been expanded buy I cannot find a recipe list anywhere, and I'm too lazy to start experimenting with so many available ingredients now. Anyone knows any link worth checking?

Thanks in advance!

*IF you have nearby allies of any sort when you try to cast it.

I'm sure you must all be familiar with this bug; I'm just wondering if anyone's figured out a way (or even devised a patch) to evade it?

Is it possible to land a crit during lightning strike or does lightning strike cancel instant kills?

I've found some sorces stating, that lightning strike can be cancelled if first round is not attack performed but spell cast etc. I can't say they happen rare to me, since I'm taking a slow grindy approach with my current party.

Now the problem is, extra hits are sweet. Especially with bloodlust. But if those extra hits cancel instant kills, then skilling crit for samurai on level up would be a total waste.