Posted by Scaurus on August 3, 2000 at 11:38:12:
In Reply to: Personally I like the "Play only lightwalkers who aren't in master or arbiter" approach to beating wall/insects. nt posted by Imbrogno(VIP but lazy) on August 3, 2000 at 06:20:03:
> > There are several different approaches you could take, depending on your character and how good you are.
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> > Avoiding any place a wall could be is the easiest. Plant growth makes this a little more interesting, but you could concievably avoid any place that could be plant growthed as well if you were extremely paranoid. Less so as Battle, but then, Insect Swarm isn't exactly keeping a Rager from quaffing return.
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> > Some method of scouting for potential wall hazards might be a slightly more advanced approach. The applicability of this varies somewhat by character.
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> > One approach that is definitely more proactive and requires much more skill to pull off repeatably than the ostrich-head-in-the-sand-there-is-no-wilderness approach would be to never enter the wilderness without being prepared to fight swarmed in a wall and win. Win, in this case, is defined as 'live through by at least beating the crap out of your attacker.'
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> > The more advanced ideas still are left as an exercise to the reader. Think outside the box, grasshopper.