Lords of Magic
Thoughts from various players:
I selected Mage as my profession and chose Life as my religion. In the beginning, I have a magical staff that boosts Defense rating by 2. I then took 5~6 turns to conquer the Great Temple of Life, and I found another magical staff that also boosts Defense rating as one of the spoils of war. I put one staff in the inventory and one on my hand. When I tried to switch the staff (drag one to replace the other) I found my defense rating went up by two points!! I then tried to switch it back, and the defense rating went up two points again!! In five minutes of mechanical mouse dragging and clicking, my Mage's defense rating went from 4 to 300!!! It makes my mage literally invulnerable. It also worked on all of my mages.
So I have the following conclusions:
1. When a mage has two magical staves that boost
defense, switching the staves makes the defense
rating go up indefinitely.
2. It won't work on warriors if someone tries to
switch two magical swords because a warrior can
equip two swords with no problem, unlike mages,
who can only wield a staff at a time.
This cheat gives the player a very great advantage as the Lord would never die in battle. The attack rating of the mages is still low, however. I'd recommend a party of three invicible mages and use auto-calculate combat. (It'd take forever for the mages to kill all foes if a player tries to play in real-time.)
I recently read the cheat reguarding how you can constantly swap staffs with the life mages to boost their defense, and thus make them as invulnerable as you have the patience to make them. I have also found that you can indeed also do this with the life warriors as well, though the author of the forementioned cheat had not figured out how to do this then. When you free the great temple and recieve your second staff, look at them both. There is one which notes that warriors and mages of life can use it, and there is the other one which is only used by mages called 'Healthbringer'. I believe the one for warriors is called the 'Peacemaker'. Give it to a warrior and do this repeatedly: take the staff out of his hand and place it in inventory, then drag it back into his hand and drop it in the box, then pick it back up and drag it out into inventory again, then drag it back down into his hand, dropping it there and just keep doing that over and over. You will notice the defence of the warrior increases by 1 every time the staff moves places. So thusly if you take the time to swap it in and out of his hands 500 times, he would have 500+ his starting rate! (however, i found that they are nearly impervious to damage after 150, though that didnt stop me from upping them to about 200 when i got bored)
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