![]() ![]() Your maximum party size is four, and while the manual claims that you can recruit members, this is not actually true. So in the emulator I gave myself 99 max MP, 99 Int, and just started messing around with spells.For the first and only time in the Ultima series, Ultima III allows you to create every character in your party. It does not hit every monster, every time. Oops.īut I got through it, and learned a sad, hard truth: the Poison spell is not reliable. It was kind of a train wreck of a stream as I got the crazy idea of hex editing my way past the grinding, and then had to trial and error my way through some of that, because I went to Ambrosia before doing the Mark of Fire/Force and Pray command. How to read the maps: Red, then Orange, then Yellow, then Green, Then Blue, then Purple, then Dark Purple, then Gray. Shrines of Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Dexterity. Go to Cave of Gold to get Mark of Fire, and grind up 25 * 3 * 100 = 7500 gold, which amounts to about 7500/50 = 150 chests. Go back to Lord British, leveling the Druid. Wizards, per the manual (but unchecked in fceux), have the best ability to avoid traps. This eases combat pre-Ambrosia by letting me do sorta-ok damage with knives, while getting me set up combat wise. Then two Balrons both cast spells on Cal, killing him. then I got cute and tried to conserve Sands by skipping a turn before re-upping it. Tried again, back with a Druid and 3 Wizards. That failed because I have no Open spell and that's just begging for poison and death early on. I tried again, with a Ranger and 3 Wizards. My first attempt failed because if I don't give all the characters 25 strength, then combat takes just forever. The plan was to use a Druid and 3 Wizards. This gets me some ranged magic, some healing, a full party that can use blowguns pre-Exodus Castle, and a party that can spread the load of Repel and Undead to level evenly. So what I'm thinking I'll try are two Larks (25 dex, 25 int) and two Paladins (25 dex, 25 wis), favoring dex to try to maximize accuracy. I obviously no longer need to favor leveling one character, since I need the whole party leveled to soak hits, instead of just leveling the minimum to get a ship. I used a ranger to get access to both mass-kill spells for one character, while still having blowgun ability. Every other form of combat takes so much longer than these insta-kill group spells, so I can't imagine any other form of XP grind is anywhere near as fast. So I'm going to guess that getting the whole party to Level 5 will take another 30-45 minutes in this way, using the 0 MP spells at the start of the game. Most of that was grind time, but some of it was Dawn time. It took me 18 minutes from gaining player control on the world map, to getting Level 5 from Lord British. Sail back to the Whirlpool to return to Sosaria. ![]() Visit shrines of Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Dexterity, praying for the Cards. Sail to Yew for Pray and Silver Horn, and to buy food. Sail to Cave of Sol for Marks of Fire and Snake. Sail to pick up Mystic Weapon for entire party. Sail to Cave of Death for the Silver Pick. Sail to pick up Mystic Armor for entire party. Spawn grind a nearby ship to attack and win. Go back to Lord British's Castle, and grind, grind, grind lead Ranger to 400 XP. Go to Dawn, grinding my lead Ranger's XP on the way, and gathering gold.Įnter Dawn, buy some Sands, steal Gold Pick, and leave. I used two rangers (25 str, 25 dex) and two paladins (15 str, 10 dex, 25 wis). I *had* made it to Exodus Castle in 1:30. But they're just too thick on the ground to do it in a live run I believe. The route below may be useful in a TAS situation, where you could probably manipulate the wandering monsters in Castle Exodus to avoid any wandering encounters there. Too many enemies, and the Sands don't function in the castle.Īnd you can't use a long range weapon to fight back, as only the Mystic Weapon even functions in Exodus Castle, so you either have to have lots of MP, which means buying up stats in Ambrosia, which means gold grinding, or you just have to be able to soak the hits, which means XP grinding and possibly even getting the Mark of Kings. My strategy for tough battles was to use the Sands, or better avoid them completely, but those don't work. It's simply not possible to do it this way. I'd tried a minimal grind run, and I just got destroyed in Exodus Castle. Couldn't get back to sleep, so I just finished my test run of Ultima: Exodus. ![]()
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