Spoiler - Masterson amulet ? & Counterspell

Toranaga Sama · Post by **Toranaga Sama** » Mon Jul 01, 2002 3:40 pm

I cant find the Masterson amulet in the docks district, I found Callik who cheated some old man for the amulet and killed him, but I cant find the amulet did he have the amulet on him ? I didn't realize who it was i killed I just killed him, and sold the loot, but you can't sell quest items now can you ?

Ps: How does counterspell work, I tried it a few times when the adversary is casting a spell, but nothing happens. ?

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Jul 01, 2002 3:59 pm

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First off, are you sure you're referring to Callik? Unlike what you state above, nobody was killed when Callik got the amulet from Masterson. Callik swindled it off the fool, and it's on the thief's body.

Supposedly you can't sell quest items, but I've been able to sell the broach that's part of the barbarian henchman's quest. The amulet is definitely on Callik

Toranaga Sama · Post by **Toranaga Sama** » Mon Jul 01, 2002 4:37 pm

Thanks

I meant that I killid Callik (I think)

Toranaga Sama · Post by **Toranaga Sama** » Mon Jul 01, 2002 5:38 pm

I got it now

Apparently it wasnt Callik I killed but just one of his men, but i found him now, and it all worked out.

BUt i still dont know how to use counterspells.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Jul 01, 2002 7:50 pm

Frankly, I've never invested in 'em; seems a waste of time, constantly putting points into the thing, especially if you aren't running a wizard.

Chris Boney · Post by **Chris Boney** » Tue Jul 02, 2002 12:36 am

Ahh, Counterspelling.. definately one of the coolest features from 3rd edition

Certainly my favorite ability hehehe.

Basically, counterspelling is devoting all of your attention to a single enemy spellcaster, and try to hinder him to get any spells cast at all.

What you do manually: Rightclick the enemy mage, choose counterspell, and watch. Or, assign a hotkey to counterspell like me.

What happens then: First of all, you must have some reflexes, or the enemy will get his spell cast, before you even notice. Then, most important, you need a high spellcraft skill, in order to recognize the name of the spell he is casting.

If all is ok until now, the counterspelling fun can begin!

The enemy casts lets say magic missile.. if you have a magic missile memorized, too, you will counter him. That means, the animations plays, but his magic missile will not be cast. You will see a message above his head, that you countered him. Both will loose their memorized magic missile for that day.

You can counter every spell:
a) If you have exactly the same spell memorized.

b) If you have one of the dispel magic spells memorized. (Lesser dispel magic, dispel magic, greater dispel magic, and mordekainen's disjuntion) The dispel magic spell-level must be at least the same level, and it will always use the lowest possible version to counter. Bad luck is, if you have only greater dispel left (level 6), but your enemy casts magic missile (lvl 1), because that would be a big waste of your spell.

c) If you have one of the additional counterspells memorized, which are listed in the spell descriptions.

For example: If the enemy tries to cast haste on himself, you need to have either the haste spell memorized yourself, or one of the following: dispel, greater dispel or mordekainen's (lesser dispel doesn't work because it has level 2, while haste is level 3),
OR the slow spell memorized, because the spelldescription of haste says: "Addictional counterspells: slow".

Btw, sorcerer's are absolutely the best counterspellers, think about this

Boney

Toranaga Sama · Post by **Toranaga Sama** » Tue Jul 02, 2002 4:40 am

Sounds nice

thanks for the nfo, im looking foreward to testing casting counterspells, real good walkthrough you gave there, perhaps you outa post it in the manl forum to help others.