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Subject: Re: Best characters to use in Ultima 3?
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Date: 24 May 91 22:29:02 GMT
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The party I used to win was a Cleric, two Wizards, and a Fighter.  I put
the wizards in the back and, as a result, they never died [not till the
end anyway when all my characters died except one of the wizards] and were
able to gain enough experience to advance very quickly by using mittars
on everything.  The fighter died many, many MANY times [he probably was
not such a good choice] but he gained xp fairly quickly.  The cleric was
rather a problem because she couldn't cast offensive spells and wasn't
that great at fighting, so she was usually about ten levels behind everyone
else [although using Pontori on every party of undead you meet helps a
bit here.]

A friend of mine won the game with two wizards, a cleric, and a druid [I
belive... the cleric may have been a ranger] which worked very well for
him.

My opinions on a few of the character classes:

Fighters, Barbarians, Paladins, and such:

I don't find fighting-only classes particularly useful except as front-row
fodder to protect the "weak little mages", at least initially.  When your
mages get to be upward of tenth level, they don't need any wimpy fighters
protecting them.  Fight-only classes advance slowly in my parties because
I use spells to nail just about everything.

Wizards:

I recommend two wizards in a party.  Any more than that and you'll probably
have trouble getting started because of the relative weakness of fledgling
wizards.  Any fewer than that and you won't have enough fire power.  Although
they do need to be protected through the first few levels [like I say,
fighters are good at this], they end up the most powerful and useful characters
by far.

Clerics:

Clerics advance slowly because of their sheer lack of offensive power, but
it is necessary to have a cleric [two is overdoing it.]

Alchemists and Druids:

Not worth the trouble.  'Half-clerics' and 'half-wizards' are just wimpy
versions of clerics and druids and they can't really fight much better.

Rangers:

Useful because they can fight decently and cast both cleric and wizard spells.
They don't advance much faster than do fighters, but they're still fun.

In my opinion, the best party you could have would be a

		   Ranger	Cleric

		Wizard		   Wizard

setup [weapon limitations don't matter too much since all classes can use the
Exotics]...

shrug
-dto