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[Akroma]

swimming while sleeping ?

old

strangling zombies ?

old

I reached legendary+17 shield user (that's shield user with more than 3700 exp to the next level)

in just 15 minutes
that's right, 15 minutes

pre-requisite: at least adept shield user, extremely tough or higher, as many shields equipped as possible

just walk around untill you are ambushed by a wolf pack, the more the merrier
lie on the ground, and simply wrestle with them a bit. Wolf suck at attacking, and you will easily block every single blow, given that your shield skill is already somewhat high. Just block a few strikes and see your exp EXPLODE
you can easily gain 300-500 shield user and 100-150 armor user exp by that EVERY step.

just don't hold . down, if you should grow tired or for some reason get hit, you should react quickly. Just take the wolfes out and search for the next pack

this training method is somewhat risky, so I don't recommend it for new adventurers, they can go and strangle a zombie instead

[LASD]

I hate myself for this, but I got to say:

old

At least for me. But it's still great.

[Torak]

Old as the sun.

Note: This works better with large groups of weaker enemies, because a wolf can easily rip your jugular out with one stray hit. I suggest having six shields on one arm.

[ April 14, 2008: Message edited by: Torak ]

[umiman]

I wonder, do you get more experience deflecting arrows instead of regular shots?

Well, anyway, I found my fastest way of training the shield skill was to attack an elven retreat which was filled to the brim with past elven traders (200-300 elves). Within 10 minutes, I was legendary shield user. It was also the 9th or so adventurer to try and the first to succeed.

[Torak]

quote:Originally posted by umiman:
<STRONG>I wonder, do you get more experience deflecting arrows instead of regular shots?

Well, anyway, I found my fastest way of training the shield skill was to attack an elven retreat which was filled to the brim with past elven traders (200-300 elves). Within 10 minutes, I was legendary shield user. It was also the 9th or so adventurer to try and the first to succeed.</STRONG>

I'm sure it's 10 experience for every block with a shield.

Also when doing this change your combat preference to "Close combat", your guy will just counter with toe-grabs or whatever he feels like, but will not hack them to pieces on counterstrikes.

[ April 14, 2008: Message edited by: Torak ]

[Akroma]

quote:Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>

I'm sure it's 10 experience for every block with a shield.</STRONG>

10 per shield

[umiman]

Ahhh... that would explain why I got the levels so fast.

Thus, the fastest way to train your shield skill would be a combination? Wear as many frigging shields as possible until your speed is... one? Then go kill somebody in a heavily populated region.

If you're lucky, with 20 shields and near zero speed, you could earn 200 exp with each hit and with at least 4 creatures hitting you at once, that's 800 exp per hit! Then counting your extreme slow speed, I would assume you could legendary in but seconds... if you survive.

[Akroma]

quote:Originally posted by umiman:
<STRONG>Ahhh... that would explain why I got the levels so fast.

Thus, the fastest way to train your shield skill would be a combination? Wear as many frigging shields as possible until your speed is... one? Then go kill somebody in a heavily populated region.

If you're lucky, with 20 shields and near zero speed, you could earn 200 exp with each hit and with at least 4 creatures hitting you at once, that's 800 exp per hit! Then counting your extreme slow speed, I would assume you could legendary in but seconds... if you survive.</STRONG>

blocking hits will make you tired

[dresdor]

I don't do much in adventurer mode, so how do I equip 6 shields per arm?  The most I can do is 2 (one in each hand)    is there a trick to it?

That said, I may be overlooking the obvious...it did take me about an hour to figure out how to move on the Z axis with my fortress...

[Torak]

quote:Originally posted by dresdor:
<STRONG>I don't do much in adventurer mode, so how do I equip 6 shields per arm?  The most I can do is 2 (one in each hand)    is there a trick to it?

That said, I may be overlooking the obvious...it did take me about an hour to figure out how to move on the Z axis with my fortress...</STRONG>

you grab as many shields as possible (with your hands full, so they get put in your backpack) and then you remove them from your backpack, so they get removed into your (already full) hands. It removes them in a pattern, though (remove one, gets put in left, remove another, gets put in right) so if you want to fill your right arm with shields, remove clothing when you know it's going into your left hand, and remove shields when it's going to your right.

[bigmcstrongmuscle]

O_O'

Does that work with swords? Because hot damn.

[gerkinzola]

quote:Originally posted by umiman:
<STRONG>Ahhh... that would explain why I got the levels so fast.

Thus, the fastest way to train your shield skill would be a combination? Wear as many frigging shields as possible until your speed is... one? Then go kill somebody in a heavily populated region.

If you're lucky, with 20 shields and near zero speed, you could earn 200 exp with each hit and with at least 4 creatures hitting you at once, that's 800 exp per hit! Then counting your extreme slow speed, I would assume you could legendary in but seconds... if you survive.</STRONG>

your computer would also take an hour or more per turn to calculate what the hell is going on and you would never be able to leave.

[Keizo]

So, I can't find the holding multiple items in each hand bug on the reported bug list. I take it no one's suggesting it because it makes surviving in adv mode so much easier? Or is Toady aware of it (but hasn't updated the dev bug page for a while).

[Torak]

quote:Originally posted by Keizo:
<STRONG>So, I can't find the holding multiple items in each hand bug on the reported bug list. I take it no one's suggesting it because it makes surviving in adv mode so much easier? Or is Toady aware of it (but hasn't updated the dev bug page for a while).</STRONG>

I'm pretty sure it's in the bug list.