I know, I have too many games going already, but tonight I couldn’t help but reinstall Wizardry 8, spurred on by a whole bunch of discussion on a forum. I’ve always wondered how far I could get with a solo character before hitting a roadblock or losing interest, and after a few hours so far, I have a faerie ninja up to 91 stealth off the starting crabs. That gives her a base AC of 11, which is going to be rather critical since there’s barely any armour she can wear.

It’s getting pretty tedious to raise it at this point though, so I’m not sure if I should soldier on to 100 or make do with one less AC point and let the rest build up naturally as I go along. Once you hit around 60 stealth, the crabs start retreating from you, which actually helps since you can now heal up without using up potions, but chasing them down and getting them to resume attacking you gets really annoying.

The short term goal for now will be to make it to Arnika, switch to bishop, and grind the hell out of the magic schools, with the eventual goal of switching back to ninja with a (near) full set of spells and the Cane of Corpus.