BT3 Building Strength is provided to help you find the best grind spots and the best gear for your heroes. This is how you get started. Need help building your party? Check out the Party Development page here.
Things to NOT learn the hard way
- A Bard is required to complete the game.
- Anti-Magic areas limit spell casting but spells cast from items are allowed.
- Songs and Spells may only be available in certain Volumes, check the Spell List.
- There are no vendors, but there is a storage building in Skara Brae.
- Rogues and Chronomancers can Identify items.
- After solving Skara Brae dungeons, all Conjurer, Wizard, and Sorcerer characters will be converted to Archmage and will get a level bump.
- You will select an Archmage to become a Chronomancer.
Encounters
A random encounter occurs when taking steps or when standing idle. Random encounters will include random enemies fit for the map that you are in.
Fixed-Location encounters can retrigger on the same tile predictably each time the floor is reset by changing floors or exiting the dungeon. The location is fixed but in most cases the foe you will face is random still.
Calculating a good grind
Take a look at the Foes List and search for "Ciera", notice that the foes with the highest Group Factor are Shade Dog and Shade Wolf. Next, notice the XP award.. 2000 for a Shade Wolf and it will come in really big groups compared to the Shade Ghoul which is 3500 almost double, but they will come in very small groups..
so just for comparison
Shade Wolf (2000xp) x 30 = 60,000xp /7 = 8571xp
Shade Ghoul (3500xp) x 8 = 28,000xp /7 = 4000xp
When grinding XP (or always), run from time consuming encounters that have fewer enemies. Spend your time destroying large groups of enemies. When ever you get to a new area or dungeon floor, check the Foes List. Math!
Attribution
How to obtain a copy of this game
GOG link – Digital PC Bundle (Remastered Trilogy) (includes games 1-3)
GOG link – Digital PC Bundle (Action RPG Version 2004) (includes Original Trilogy 1-3)