The Dark Eye Advise for noob, going to start Realms of Arkania series.

[damager]

Yes thanks. What is "convert increase attempts" on my mage?

 

[damager]

Dude how do you build a Warrior? I pumped a bit in 2H sword, sword, missle weapon, physical control, self control

I still got some remaining attempts. Whats useful?

Actually I think Swords cost me like 10 attempts and is still on lvl 6 the son of a bitch skill

Intuition, Agility, Strength, Courage are the primary attributes to boost basic Attack / Parry values. Dexterity contributes to missiles and thrown ATT/PA only. I don't remember what is the ratio with which they contribute to the final score, but I think that CO and STR count the most, AGI a little less, and INT is the least important. ALTHOUGH, the AGI and INT is used in many, many checks and contributes to many other stuff. So, you could say, those are also important.
Anyway, ATT/PA are the warriors' daily bread. First and foremost, do whatever you can to increase those for them.
Fyi, I'd specialize only in one one-handed weapon category at first (whatever one you wish, although swords are usually the least tricky). Two-handed weaponry is quite unwieldy for the beginning, they impose heavy debuffs. If you feel like you must pick them, it's your game, but if I were you, I'd start to rise those only after some time in the game, when you can afford some malus to ATT/PA.

Then, of course, PHY / SE Control you yourself picked are very wise choices—Warrior will get hurt a lot, and the less wounds they acquire the better. I believe there are also some story-related checks for these talents.

Put the rest into HP, and if there's something left, pick whatever you fancy from the "Body" category.

Bru you giving me these insides on intuition now after saving the fucker. You know I have the chronic fatal reroll syndrom right?

Nah but for real, that is a lot of good info. Thanks man! I might have to give the guy a little rework and include INT I think I dumbed it badly.

 

[Nikanuur]

Yes thanks. What is "convert increase attempts" on my mage?

I think that that one was the possibility to have more attempts at increasing the value of a talent / spell at the expense of your max Spell Points.
Because increasing a talent / spell (i.e. getting better at it) can fail. It's not automatic. Yeah, that's another "wonderful" functionality of DSA game(s), hh.

I'd advise against it. Spell Points are hard to come by, experiences are not.

Oh, what do you know: I've just stumbled upon a functional manual through sheer dumb luck (just googled the same question, I wasn't sure I remembered it correctly).
Here you go: https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs.php?id=1335

 

[damager]

Yes thanks. What is "convert increase attempts" on my mage?

I'd advise against it. Spell Points are hard to come by, experiences are not.

Well right after I clicked "no" on "convert increase attempts", a new window opened asking me "convert 10 attempts on magic skills to astral points?". How the fuck do I know I didn't even start my adventure yet or look at the skill sheet man.

Also what would be a good spell school to focus on?

 

[damager]

And how important are the phobias? I just rolled a pretty nice warrior. Sick stats but not so good on the phonia side. Would it be good now to reduce some dump stats to get the phobias down or is that a bad trade?

 

[Nikanuur]

Yes thanks. What is "convert increase attempts" on my mage?

I'd advise against it. Spell Points are hard to come by, experiences are not.

Well right after I clicked "no" on "convert increase attempts", a new window opened asking me "convert 10 attempts on magic skills to astral points?". How the fuck do I know I didn't even start my adventure yet or look at the skill sheet man.

Also what would be a good spell school to focus on?

1. Less attempts to acquire more spells—or more powerful version of spells—and instead have more Astral Points. ----> I'd also say no that. Especially for first playthrough.

2. For Magicians: definitely Combat. Other must-have schools are are Healing (self-translating) and Movement (will save you a lot of pain during some adventure situations). Also don't forget you can have other spell-casters in your party, so don't spread your talents too thin. Specialize in only a few spells per character at first, then you'll see what's what.

On Clairvoyance and Transmutation: The former can provide some additional info about objects, creatures, situations, NPC's thoughts etc.—that's good because the game is kind of untoward with information in general—as you yourself have already seen during the character creation :D The latter has got some nice buffs, if you are into this sort of thing.

Other than that, I think it's purely optional. You could even go without Combat magic, and have, idk, a Skeletons and Demons summoning Dark-Wizard-Lord :D but I've always felt more inclined towards naturally damaging Wizards (sorry, Magicians here), so I've never tried other schools all that much.

Last but not least, Blade of Destiny is one of those games in which you can brick progress. It's rare, but it can happen. So, save into different files every now and then. I hope it's not much of a spoiler if I tell you that one of those moments can come if you don't have Melt the Solid or Freeze the Soft spells from the Transmutation school upgraded to at least few levels. Sorry, I don't remember which one was it in particular.

 

[damager]

Yes thanks. What is "convert increase attempts" on my mage?

I'd advise against it. Spell Points are hard to come by, experiences are not.

Well right after I clicked "no" on "convert increase attempts", a new window opened asking me "convert 10 attempts on magic skills to astral points?". How the fuck do I know I didn't even start my adventure yet or look at the skill sheet man.

Also what would be a good spell school to focus on?

1. Less attempts to acquire more spells—or more powerful version of spells—and instead have more Astral Points. ----> I'd also say no that. Especially for first playthrough.

2. For Magicians: definitely Combat. Other must-have schools are are Healing (self-translating) and Movement (will save you a lot of pain during some adventure situations). Also don't forget you can have other spell-casters in your party, so don't spread your talents too thin. Specialize in only a few spells per character at first, then you'll see what's what.

On Clairvoyance and Transmutation: The former can provide some additional info about objects, creatures, situations, NPC's thoughts etc.—that's good because the game is kind of untoward with information in general—as you yourself have already seen during the character creation :D The latter has got some nice buffs, if you are into this sort of thing.

Other than that, I think it's purely optional. You could even go without Combat magic, and have, idk, a Skeletons and Demons summoning Dark-Wizard-Lord :D but I've always felt more inclined towards naturally damaging Wizards (sorry, Magicians here), so I've never tried other schools all that much.

Last but not least, Blade of Destiny is one of those games in which you can brick progress. It's rare, but it can happen. So, save into different files. I hope it's not much of a spoiler if I tell you that one of those moments can come if you don't have Melt the Solid or Freeze the Soft spells from the Transmutation school upgraded to at least few levels. Sorry, I don't remember which one was it in particular.

Thanks man. Really good stuff.

 

[Nikanuur]

And how important are the phobias? I just rolled a pretty nice warrior. Sick stats but not so good on the phonia side. Would it be good now to reduce some dump stats to get the phobias down or is that a bad trade?

The lower the better. I found out that unless you have a high score (6 and more), you won't trigger that phobia much. However, when you do, your characters may, for example, decline some action such as digging a grave because of high Superstition, or spring a trap of a chest you wanted to disarm first (high Avarice), because they just couldn't have helped themselves to not snatch whatever is inside, only for themselves, real quick :D

I don't remember things happening on the "positive spectrum". I think phobias are there solely to spice it up on the negative spectrum, but I am not 100% sure.

 

[damager]

Sounds actually fun. I will make a greedy fighter to see what's it about and try to reduce most other stuff. I would dump wisdom and charisma to keep most phobias down correct?

 

[damager]

lol I was so lucky with my rolls this time the fighter is an absolute monster. I even had a bonus point for carouse to win battles in the tavern too

 

[Nikanuur]

I don't really understand if it makes sense to level up swords and edged type weapons or if I should stick to swords. I guess it will only pull from one stat

Yeah, it's kind of all over the place. But those are two different categories.

Swords weapons are usually called just that, sword or sword of...
They have little to no malus, and they seldom have any bonus.

Edged weapons are Sabre, Cutlass, sometimes also Mace...
They usually have slight Attack bonus and slight Parry malus.

 

[damager]

Okay great. Rolled really good stats on a mage too. I chose no convertions of any points and combat lore focus.

Any good spells to invest in? On this dude I'm even more lost lol

 

[damager]

Balm (1) and Lighting (4) are some rare spells that start in the positives and they look usefull

 

[jaekl]

Lightning rules (stun) and fear rules (makes the enemy run off the map which counts as a kill) and you want the one damage spell that uses 1 mp per hp damage in case you have to burn down a demon.

 

[jaekl]

I would say more than half of spells are useless. Especially demonology spells.

 

[jaekl]

Oh get teleport too

 

[damager]

Okay, after reading up a lot about the usefulness of spells, here's my spell list:

break domination
acceleraturs
foramen
transversalis
duplication
lightning
fulminictus
ingifacus
terror power
paralyze
magic armor
balm

I tried to keep a balance, between damaging spells, utility, cc, buffs and healing. Hope this list might help other rolling their first mage.
I also ended up converting 10 spell skill points into "not-mana" as these spells were already enough to keep an overview of for a first run.
Happy with this guy. At this speed I might be able to play the first dungeon by the evening

 

[damager]

Besides your guys posts this write up also helped me a lot so far https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564655-realms-of-arkania-blade-of-destiny/faqs/64921

Leaving this here too for future generations. Blessed be gamefaqs man, what a great archive of video game meta game info.

 

[damager]

Ah shit I'm finding out way too late there's 3+ different portraits per gender/class.

At the same time the graphics of this game are already so beautiful. Pixel work on the depictions of all the classes. Falling in love during the character creation already. I can't believe some people play the muddy, colourless jank 3d demake instead.

Rogue is done too. 3 to go. Update: And a Dwarf and Hunter. I'm at my last slot. I'm flirting with the witch. I kind of find it cool they have a broom and can't be afraid of heights haha. If nothing else these classes at least all have flavour.

 

[damager]

I experiemented with a witch, than with a druid, but than I found out elves do everything better than those and more. So I rolled a nice Silvan Elve named Sunray.

I chose spells that started with high values and complimented her Hybrid nature

ball and chain
lighting
break domination
balm
increase str, dex, agi
accurate eye
eagles eye

It's basically all buffs and cc and some more healing. She will be the support mage.

That's it. I rolled them all. As you can tell I like to theorycraft and do everything as perfect as possible with some OCD sprinkled on top. So rolling 6 chars blind can, in a game with such a compicated system and so many noob traps can be a challeng for me. But I didn't let my perfectionism get the best of my and completed a party I'm overall very happy with, for my first run. Let's see how they fare in the actual campaign

 

[damager]

 

[Nikanuur]

Okay, after reading up a lot about the usefulness of spells, here's my spell list:

break domination
acceleraturs
foramen
transversalis
duplication
lightning
fulminictus
ingifacus
terror power
paralyze
magic armor
balm

I tried to keep a balance, between damaging spells, utility, cc, buffs and healing. Hope this list might help other rolling their first mage.
I also ended up converting 10 spell skill points into "not-mana" as these spells were already enough to keep an overview of for a first run.
Happy with this guy. At this speed I might be able to play the first dungeon by the evening

Great choice! I can see that you've did your homework. Btw—Foramen and Transversalis! Oh, man, what a nostalgia. I instantly heard the sound effects in my mind's voice. Even after those 30 odd years.

 

[jaekl]

Don't forget to do your magic staff rituals for your mage

 

[damager]

I have to admit I never played a game with such blobber controls. I'm just glad the combat is on a grid, else I would have not picked this up.

Any tips how to get started? What to do? Just explore and let it flow?

 

[Old Hans]

I beat the first realms of arkania. that game was massive stinker. play magic candle its 100 times better