| On Skorm’s Bow and Berserk:
I’ve seen people post how they’ve sacrificed upwards of thirty people to the Chapel of Skorm and not gotten Skorm’s Bow. If you are doing that, you are doing it all wrong. To get Skorm’s Bow, you need to get around 500 or so Evil points in ONE shot. If you’ve sacrificed 30 people, you’re probably so Evil you’ll never get the bow. You’d be better off going to the Temple of Avo, donating a boat load of money to get really good, and trying for the bow again.
After defeating Twin Blade is the best time to do this. Rather than port back to the guild, run into the camp and hire the Evil Merc. Some people have said when you sacrifice and who you sacrifice doesn’t matter. Maybe this is the case for other platforms, but for the PC it certainly does matter. If you don’t believe me try sacrificing one of the shop keepers from Darkwood Camp and see how well you do. Not very well, I’d wager. After hiring this Merc, port to Bowerstone, go into the Tavern and Hire the other Evil Merc. I also tend to sleep in the Inn till it’s early evening.
From here, port to Barrow Fields, and race to the Chapel of Skorm. You can kill a few guys along the way, but don’t waist too much time, as starting your trek when it’s already dark is meant to minimize your down time waiting for midnight, but can be cutting it kind of close.
Once at the Chapel you want to sacrifice the two Evil Mercs as close to midnight as possible. Some times you hear ‘Lights out you horrible lot’ sometimes you see money being taken to pay your mercs (on the hour every hour), but sometimes these indicators don’t appear. So sometimes I just do the sacrifice when it looks like midnight to me rather than letting the time go past. The first one should give you the bow, but I tend to skip through the cinematics because I want to sacrifice the second one close to midnight as well. Do that, as quickly as possible and you should generate well over a 1000 Evil points in total.
Unfortunately, this probably still won’t be enough Evil points to get Berserk four. That’s where the crunchy chicks come into play. Port back to the guild, and chow down on chickadees. I usually do them in groups of 25 and test to see if Berserk 4 has become available. It seems you don’t have to become truly Evil, just neutral enough though. I’ve tried re-hiring the Mercs to sacrifice them again, but they don’t seem to re-spawn until you’ve done another quest. So the crunchy chicks chow down is the easiest and fastest way to change your alignment the rest of the way.
On Witchwood:
The other nice thing about becoming Evil at this point in the game is that it sets us up nicely for getting the Sentinus. The Temple of Avo works just like the Temple of Skorm. In order to get the Sentinus, you have to get a hundreds of ‘Good’ points in one shot. With one character, I went to the Temple with tons of money and already nearly maxed out in my ‘Good’ personality. I gave a few thousand, and then I gave like 200,000 to try and get the Sentinus. No Sentinus appeared and I only got like 50 good points. I gave another 200,000. No Sentinus and no ‘Good points’. I gave another 300,000, and got nothing. I had maxed out my ‘Good’ trait and so I couldn’t get the Sentinus to be awarded. The same thing will happen in reverse at the Temple of Skorm, which is why it’s easier for Good characters to get the Bow.
Likewise, that’s why at this point in our quest, we are well positioned to get the Sentinus. We’ve just generated a ton of Evil points to get the Bow, and more still to master Berserk. All it will take at the temple is throwing a couple thousand at first and around 60,000 after that to get the Sentinus. The Sentinus is a really nice weapon to have because it has the Silver augmentation on it, making it perfect for killing Balverines. If you want, you can donate some more money to have your age reduced and be granted the title of Paladin.
The White Balverine:
At first, it really doesn’t matter what weapon you hit him with, it only counts hits. For a funny image, pull out your old ‘Stick’ and hit him with that. It works just as well as a Great weapon. Also, don’t forget to get all the Silver keys along the way.  |