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Marvin is a shopkeeper located inside the Labyrinth. He sells magical items, potions, and scrolls not available elsewhere, and hideously inflated prices. You can kill Marvin by cursing him to start the fight, but wait until you're done with your shopping to take your vengeance. Alas, he doesn't drop your gold when he dies.Directions to Marvin's Superstore:Drune, 1 up, 17 left from the

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Full SizeCompactDragon Pit walkthrough can be found here

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I don't know why you'd want to keep potions at all, the useful ones are easier to buy or alch, but in case you do, here's what the shopkeepers will offer you for them. Potions Purified Water - 2 Swamp Water - 2 Poison Curse - 12 Lightning Curse - 15 Clumsiness - 22 Fire Curse - 22 Elixir of Life - 25 Poison - 26 Weakness - 30 Cold Curse - 42 Purifying Elixir - 45 See Invisible - 47 Shifting -

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Here's what shopkeepers will give you for various items of jewelry before they're ID'ed.RingsCopper - 25Engagement - 250Wedding - 750Expensive Wedding Ring - 7,500Royal Wedding Ring - 15,000Eternal Nourishment - 1,000Dexterity - 1,250Endurance - 1,250Strength - 1,250Regeneration - 1,500Intelligence - 1,750Ugliness - 50Weakness - 50Slowness - 50Stupidity - 50Clumsiness - 50Gender - 250Rings of

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Dragon Pit is the most difficult cave in the game. Here's how to run it and (mostly) survive. Special thanks to LilBitSassy, Seacrystal, SOB, WizardOfAhhs, and Pail for help with some of the various tips and strategies.Dragon Pit is located in Fafnir's Swamp, 9 up and 15 right from the Wen teleporter. It is divided into three sections which are really complete caves of their own: the Hatchery,

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There is no single best weapon or item of armor in the game. What works best varies by toon race, class, level, and personal preference. (As well as how much gold you have to spend.) Having said that, here's some recommendations. (Keep in mind, enchants affect the wearer, perms affect the item.) Strength (Empower) and dexterity (Nimbility) should be enchanted on to every single item you can wear

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We certainly use a lot of them, don't we? This isn't all of them, but it covers most. Some are more commonly used than others.189 - An elf wizard who has reached the highest SDM level possible without Dragon Pit gear.1k - The highest level in the game, or a character who has reached this level201 - An elf wizard who has reached the highest SDM possible with Dragon Pit gear.AD - Acestos Desert (

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I originally posted this on the official message boards a few years ago Those boards are gone, but FHP hasn't changed a bit. An AIEW should be able to do everything but the 9 Lich and 7 Fury fights by level 100-150. More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Festering Hate Pool by VeraGemini Festering Hate Pool (FHP) is located 6 up and 6 right from the Wen teleporter, in Zender's Woods. It's a

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Furies use one of four different types of attacks: electrical, fire, acid, or poison. They never switch attacks in the middle of a battle, so a Fury that starts out electrical will stay electrical, and so on. The spells they use are as follows:Electric: Lightning Bolt, Electric Fury, and Lightning Curse.Fire: Flame Orb, Fireball, and Fire Curse.Acid: Acid Bolt and Acid Curse, occasionally (

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The alignment of some monsters is easy to figure out. Faeries and other things that flutter and blow kisses (Nymphs, Pixes, Seraphs of all flavors) are all good (except Dark Faeries, of course), as are Paladins, Clerics, Priestesses, and anything that says "Light" in their name. Devils and anything that looks like a demon (Daemons, Kilrogs) are obviously evil, as is anything that says "Hell" in

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Drear Valley is normally thought of as Magic Macer heaven, but a low level wizzie can solo there for great experience, too. To get there, go right from the Monmouth teleporter, through the Downs. If you're not Malevolent, Evil, or Demonic, you will have to flee a few Hellsnakes and Kilrogs on the way.Your target is Aegiscians. They are evil, and they have 0% Mysticism resistance. They also like

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Greater Hives is located 2 left and 12 up from the Asgard teleporter. This is Acestos Desert, so if you've got less than 2.5k hp, you'll need a ride. The first fight can be soloed at about level 200-250 for an AIEW. Most people only do the first fight over and over again for experience, so that's all I'm going to cover right now. (I will do a walkthrough for the entire cave at some point.)

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Dark Gauntlet is the cave associated with Duach's temple. If your alignment is Malevolent, Evil, or Demonic, praying at the altar will give you glowie red/black hair and 90% poison resistance (meaning you only take 1 out of every 10 poison counters you would have otherwise) for 6 game hours or 360 combat rounds. Any other aligmnent will get you cursed, giving you gray skin with a red outline,

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(Not including Dragon Pit, although I'll cover that in a later post.)Fafnir's Swamp, located right of Wen (through Zender's Woods) or left from Silverbrook (through Devon Forest - the Wen route is shorter) is a good place for experience, but bad for treasure. What you'll be hunting are Slimes, Sludges, Goo, Gunk, Muck, and Mire, hereafter referred to as "goo". Dragons bite too hard for a wizzie

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One of the new items for the Summer Solstice Festival 2007 is apples. They're thrown out by event hosts, and they're like fortune cookies, with sayings on each one. There are 18 different red apple sayings, and one each for the rarer blue, purple, yellow, and green apples. Here they all are:"You can measure a fool by the number of his words.""Everything you have holds value. If you cannot see it

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People often ask me for this, so here it is:Click for full-sized image, or right-click and choose "Save" to download it.

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Here are the full sized maps, with icons showing what each shop sells.AsgardArimathorCaer FandryDruneKurzLeinster (and map key)MonmouthMuriasSilverbrookUskWen

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Here are the compact maps, suitable for all your Hay 'N' Seek needs.East and West LeinsterDrune, Monmouth, Murias, Silverbrook, and WenArimathor, Asgard, Caer Fandry, Kurz, and Usk

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