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Originally posted by Monkeyboy_McGee
Uh, yes they are. The reason i say this is because:
A)You need lots and lots of plat. Once you have the plat, and im talking lots here, you have to sit there for ages buying up useless scrolls until you get one, and most of the time it comes up with like ISBs or something.
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You don't have to load up on useless scrolls, just wander around, store to store, and when you find it, you buy it, and continue walking.
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B)The powerplayers are usually the ones who have all this plat (not due to them being powerplayers, really. i can get lots of plat too. Perhaps this bit is due to laziness). Anyway, they DO sit at the shops and buy everything up, and when they get to EAs and IWDs they buy them, even when they don't need them. They do this so that they can go off and trade them for other items that most players don't have.
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Okay, how would they buy the scroll before you, if you're just sitting in front of a pile of scrolls, buying whatever appears? They would have to push you out of the way, which would take them more time than it would for you to buy whichever IWD or EA. Also, getting lots of plat is easy. For me, it's as easy as killing 2 lords (or having someone else kill them, it doesn't matter). then I take the tradable parts, get 2 of (magnifying lens/walking stick/glass sword), and bless them to +2. They then sell for a good 500 plat each, which will allow you to buy scrolls
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Or, if an EA does miraculously just get put up as a restock by the shop, the powerplayers get to them first most of the time. It is not easy to get these scrolls, no matter how hard you try.
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I don't consider myself a powerplayer (i haven't leveled in over 5 months :P) but when I have money on me and I'm shopping for scrolls, I'll just wander fron store to store, and if I don't see one, I'll go out and find more lord parts, bless, sell, and go looking for scrolls again in half an hour.
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I am not a lazy player. I try and try and try, i have built myself up quite well, i'm like lvl24 now which is quite an acomplishment for me. I've got a powerful weapon now, but it's taken a few months to fill all the slots (no, i haven't been spending ALL the time looking for scrolls). But now i have no AC so its useless, so im trying to get EAs now but it's -hard-. HARD.
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A good way to bust through the insane AC is to either find someone who can bless +2 to DianCecht, +whatever to Ogma, and then prepare the weapon with lots of EW scrolls. You'll get a nice WC boost (that'll help puncture a hole in their AC) and with Dian or Ogma, once you land a blinding or poisoning hit, their AC/ WC will drop, which makes things slightly easier.