[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Left/Right handed DoD playing...

[Frederick D Provoncha]

> You need to make sure you kill everything on level 1 before going to 
> 2. 
> Then, you want to find a spider and just let it hit you. Then you 
> can 
> wait for creatures to line up and do hit and hide behind the spider 
> 
> attacks to deal with the knights. Note you should put out your torch 
> 
> before you settle in to let the creatures line up. Kill everything 
> before you go on.
> 
> Then, you can do the same on level 3 (find a weak creature to hide 
> behind) and let critters line up. Kill everything before you go 
> after 
> the image.

I've never tried the strategy you suggest, but there is another strategy
that works. What I always did to breeze through the first 3 levels is to
find a secluded spot in the maze, preferrably the end of a dead-end
corridor, and drop all of the items in my backpack onto the floor. Almost
all of the creatures in the game with the exception of the scorpions, the
wraiths, and the Wizard's Image and the Wizard himself will stop and pick
up all of the objects on the floor one at a time before they will attack
you. This gives you plenty of time in most cases to hack away at the
creature until you kill it. Once you kill it any objects it was carrying
will drop again to the floor. Since most creatures are carrying an object
already with them when they show up, the pile of objects will gradually
grow larger, making it even easier to kill later creatures. This is
especially effective on Level 2, where you have plenty of objects, no
scorpions, wraiths, or Wizard's Image to worry about, and where the
creatures are not that hard (relatively speaking) to kill. I spend almost
the entire time on Level 2 camped out the whole time in one spot with
tons of objects at my feet. The creatures can't kill me because it takes
them so long to pick up all the objects I've accumulated.

When the Wizard's Image approaches, quickly put the rings in your hands
and light your best torch. When you kill the Wizard's Image you'll be
transported to the 4th Level with nothing but your rings and your torch,
so you have to use a different strategy for the 4th level: hack & run,
hack & run. It usually doesn't work. But if you manage to survive the 4th
Level, the 5th Level is pretty easy. It's then that I use a similar
strategy to what you outlined, William: Find a spider (they can't hurt
you because by now you're way too strong for them) and hide behind him
and let all the creatures line up. Then play hit and hide behind the
spider as you suggest.

Fred Provoncha