Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

I suspect that halve of the posts are my annoying questions. :D

With hero - magic staff lvl 16, hp 35/35 & Miffy (AP 58+ hat, HP 58/58) + Ysmay

using cat with stun collar in round 1,
poison potion, PPP, wep & damage & GSP potions for both hero and Miffy
6 shield potions and 1 heal potion
(i.e. total of 15 potions)

it would take 9 rounds to defeat the Sorcerer.

Kelly, in Leprechaun battle: when I use gold to coat my weapon, it doubles my attack power with or without modifiers?

Also, this might be a silly question, but the Combat Hat gives +1 to your sword total attack? or lets your attack 1 extra time?

Did we ever ask if Weakening Potion can be cast on enemies? 'cos that might help a li'l bit too?

also: shield gems could help too, if they've been activated? the red onegives an extra swing, right? (not that I've got a red one activated yet :( )

or magic spells - are those affected by the halving too?? It would seem odd that they were, as it's a different skill set, isn't it?
The 2nd stage life one might be handy? Can we train Miffy in spells if we wanted??

Rebecca, it's +1 AP to your sword.

Cat, re weakening potion: it says that it weakens "your attack power".

Magic spells might be a good idea. :-)

Zuzana wrote: "Cat, re weakening potion: it says that it weakens "your attack power"."

Yeah, I know. But I thought of using it on myself for the alchemist (Miffy attack is high enough that it wouldn't really impact on the length of the fight, and would save hp) , and that made me think of general uses...

Zuzana wrote: "Magic spells might be a good idea. :-)"

I was pretty pleased with that idea, esp if Miffy can learn them (cos the add ons are greater than 10att)

Kelly, how would Stunning cat collar work against the Sorcerer? Would he skip the 1st or second round? What would be hero's & Miffy's AP in the next round?

Zuzana wrote: "Kelly, in Leprechaun battle: when I use gold to coat my weapon, it doubles my attack power with or without modifiers?"

Let's go without. Base attack.

RebeccaS wrote: "Also, this might be a silly question, but the Combat Hat gives +1 to your sword total attack? or lets your attack 1 extra time?"

Miffy's hat? Adds +1 to sword attack power.

Cat wrote: "Did we ever ask if Weakening Potion can be cast on enemies? 'cos that might help a li'l bit too?"

Only one that would work on is the Alchemist but you'd have to take it yourself too.

Cat wrote: "or magic spells - are those affected by the halving too?? It would seem odd that they were, as it's a different skill set, isn't it?
The 2nd stage life one might be handy? Can we train Miffy in sp..."

Spells can be at full damage. Miffy can't cast yet, but maybe she might in the future :P

Zuzana wrote: "Kelly, how would Stunning cat collar work against the Sorcerer? Would he skip the 1st or second round? What would be hero's & Miffy's AP in the next round?"

I'm ok with him skipping the first round if you want. The cat can supersede any other actions.

Cat, I tried to calculate the spell damage for the Sorcerer battle and I found out that the spell at full power will give you less AP than 1+all the modifiers AP. It's because not all modifiers fly with spells (no + 2 bonus, no wep, no orb, no hat, no babble)

I tried it for Firebolt spell. Might be better for Life but I want to save Lemons for fighting zombies.

Zuzana wrote: "I have some questions and if Kelly is generous it might lower the cost of This battle.

Miffy LVL 0 has 10 AP. The same as the hero with weapon LVL 0 has 2 AP. Does it mean that those 10 AP as Miff..."

You can't go under 1, but it would reduce below their level 0 level.

Have no fear, more options are on their way. Just having timing issues due to travel so they'll be out soon.

Yeah, I did wonder if the modifiers would be >10Att of basic spells.
If only Miffy could be trained to case them...

But the good news is that these monsters are hanging around after October ends, so failure to kill the Sorcerer now isn't a disaster!

Kelly wrote: "Cat wrote: "Did we ever ask if Weakening Potion can be cast on enemies? 'cos that might help a li'l bit too?"

Only one that would work on is the Alchemist but you'd have to take it yourself too."

Yeah, I got that: I figgered with Miff at 50+attack I didn't really need my hero to be strong on attack as well, and reducing the attack would be more helpful.

Weakening potion would end at the end of the battle, right? It doesn't mention persistence of effects, so I assumed not.

Cat wrote: "Yeah, I did wonder if the modifiers would be >10Att of basic spells.
If only Miffy could be trained to case them...

But the good news is that these monsters are hanging around after October ends, ..."

Trying to come up with some more interesting potions too. You guys always surprise me with different combinations of things :)

I've been grumbling to myself about how to level up my staff: I'm missing some high-ish level books that would allow be to reach at least level 15 if not 16.

Then light dawned: duplication potions! Bring them on!

I've been having similar problems with my sword. The duplication potion has become my savior!

RebeccaS wrote: "I've been having similar problems with my sword. The duplication potion has become my savior!"

and that glue task, too, I guess? when you don't need a rabbit egg - stick some books together?!

Check out the last post in the Halloween thread. I think that Kelly has something big in store for us...
XD

Eeek.

I'm a little scared to see what it is! But EXCITED more!!

3 more up :) Rest tomorrow. Night Halloween people!

Great update, Kelly!

a couple of questions:

Ghost of Big Heart - is Miffy totally absent from the battle or is she there (on the sidelines) but doesn't attack? (it's important because of the XP gained and who is hit every other round)

Halloween Potions - Can we use them to fight other than Halloween Monsters? Greater Poison & Bounce Potions would be great for battling zombies.

Zuzana wrote: "Great update, Kelly!

a couple of questions:

Ghost of Big Heart - is Miffy totally absent from the battle or is she there (on the sidelines) but doesn't attack? (it's important because of the XP g..."

Miffy will still take part in the battle like normal, she just won't attack at all.

You can use the halloween potions for other battles but you can't use potion tokens to get them right now so use them wisely. :)

Sorry for the delay.

The rest of the Halloween event is up now. I hope you guys enjoyed it!

I loved it, Kelly. Great idea and great execution. Thanks!

Quick questions about fighting Source of All Evil :

1/ Does the charm Necklace work for Miffy, too or only for the hero?

2/ Hero's immunity to Source's attacks means that I get to hit it as many times as it takes to kill it without it retaliating once. Right?

3/ What about the colored stones? If i have saved some of those from the Magus battle, can I use them elsewhere (e.g. against the Source)? probably not, just an idea ;)

4/ Does the magical pumpkin work on Halloween potions, e.g. Greater Poison Potion? Just to be sure, I can use it only to get 1 unit of the consumable item I already own, right? If I have 0 herbs, I can't use it to get 1, or can I?

Loved the updates, thanks so much Kelly!!

Now just need to make time to finish those suckers :D

Zuzana wrote: "I loved it, Kelly. Great idea and great execution. Thanks!

Quick questions about fighting Source of All Evil :

1/ Does the charm Necklace work for Miffy, too or only for the hero?

2/ Hero's imm..."

1/ Does the charm Necklace work for Miffy, too or only for the hero?
Only for hero, but it doesn't matter so much since he can't kill you at that point. Miffy sadly dies no matter what you do.

2/ Hero's immunity to Source's attacks means that I get to hit it as many times as it takes to kill it without it retaliating once. Right?
His turn will just be a 0 attack to the hero. Miffy sadly dies, see previous statement and last post on the Halloween thread.

3/ What about the colored stones? If i have saved some of those from the Magus battle, can I use them elsewhere (e.g. against the Source)? probably not, just an idea ;)
Nope! Only special charm with all the orbs :P No cheating. :)

4/ Does the magical pumpkin work on Halloween potions, e.g. Greater Poison Potion? Just to be sure, I can use it only to get 1 unit of the consumable item I already own, right? If I have 0 herbs, I can't use it to get 1, or can I?
You can only use it on things you already have. And I'll let you use it on Halloween potions. I'm planning on adding some new potions to the potion store anyway and bumping up the difficulty on some of the newer things.

Cathy M. wrote: "Loved the updates, thanks so much Kelly!!

Now just need to make time to finish those suckers :D"

:) Glad you liked it.

Kelly, can we stack Minor Poison & Greater Poison Potions?

I'm trying to figure out if using all the new Halloween goodies it's finally possible to kill the Killer Zombie.

Highest poison potion wins. No stacking on those.

O.k. it was worth a shot. :-)

I'm confused about the colored stones too. Can they only be used once in the Magus battle? I got confused and thought we could use the blue stone twice and another stone twice?

I believe that the colored stones can be used each one only once. And only in the Magus battle.

I'm probably over complicating the Ghost Book / Editor reward bit.

How does it work? specifically the comment "quest may be repeated for each of the combinations"
can we kill multiples of the Ghost of.... monsters (except Book), to get the edit Essences to stack multiple Editor rewards?
can we reuse the Essence with multiple books to get multiple Editor rewards (e.g. three Cute Editing quests)
Or we can only have max of all four of the edits? i.e lowest attack the Ghost Book will reach is 25

I won't use any editors. I'll use 2 bounce potions & 2 shield potions. With Miffy around 70 AP, it should be enough.

Zuzana wrote: "I won't use any editors. I'll use 2 bounce potions & 2 shield potions. With Miffy around 70 AP, it should be enough."

I have an abundance of books, so it might be overall better for me to Edit that bounce!

Cat wrote: "I'm probably over complicating the Ghost Book / Editor reward bit.

How does it work? specifically the comment "quest may be repeated for each of the combinations"
can we kill multiples of the Ghos..."

You can get up to 4 editors. It only works for the baby book ghost. So you can get it down to 25 attack. You can only do one of each editor since you only have 1 essence of each. You need the corresponding essence from the previous 4 monsters.

RebeccaS wrote: "I'm confused about the colored stones too. Can they only be used once in the Magus battle? I got confused and thought we could use the blue stone twice and another stone twice?"

The way things are organized is days 1-4 give things used in day 5's battle. Then day's 6-9 give things used in day 10's battle, etc.

Then day 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 give things used in day 31.

Someone help me, please. Is there a way in Goodreads to search books by DAY of publication? Because I'm going a bit crazy with the quest "The Academy - History" and trying to find a book published on a 21st... TT3TT

I saved this from one of the previous challenges and it looks like it still works. (I believe Kelly or one of the other mods posted it)

In goggle type in (exactly) and change the date accordingly:

site: goodreads "(first published * 27th" 


It doesn't give you everything but it can help!

I've finally got around to killing a Nook Squirrel, and have a couple of related questions, both academic at the moment:

1: if we use the earth magic to summon a second, do we get hit by both squirrels in round 1, or only squirrel 1, not their summoned pal?

2: when I eventually kill three, and tempt a Kindlecorn out, what use is the Kindlecorn meat??