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You cannot finish the game in 4 months and 11 days.
04/29/2010, 11:01:19

    Radek writes:

    I have seen this result as well. IMHO, you cannot pass so quickly. Let us summarize necessary "time losses":

    * Travel from EI to Harmondale. The hintbook states that the ship goes only 2 days on certain day but it is not true. It always goes 7 days. 7 days lost.

    * Travel from Harmondale to Barrow Downs. You can hire a guide (or what he is called - the lowest level of "travel shortener") in Harmondale and shorten the travel by one day. But you cannot hire any hihger level of "travel shortener" in Harmondale and coaches do not go to Barrow Downs. IIRC, 2 days lost.

    * Travel from Barrow Downs to Bracada Desert. You can hire a better "travel shortener" in Stone City so that you can save 3 days. But it's 5 days from Barrow Downs to Bracada. Again, no coaches, no ships, Gate Master will not help because you haven't been in Bracada so far (but he can help on your way back). Therefore, 2 days lost.

    Let us note that we have lost 11 days so far.

    * Travel from Bracada Desert to Barrow Downs. You need to pass the dvarwes to the King. IIRC, that's exactly the moment, when the War is started - or is it only after your return to the Castle Harmondale? Anyway:
    - Either you lose next 2 days.
    - Or you get teleported by your Gate Master to Barrow Downs (that's possible, you have already been there). You will have to run before Gargoyles and Goblins to the City. Good luck at your current character level. Nevertheless, it's possible
    - Or you have got 2 Lloyd's Beacon scrolls on EI and you have set a beacon in Stone City and now you teleport to it. I have seen only one Lloyd's Beacon scroll in all my playing MM7.

    Note that you can buy a Town Portal Scroll in Stone City so that the travel from Stone City to Harmondale needs no time.

    Even if we accept that we were lucky and we escaped all Gargoyles or that we have been even more lucky and we have got the beacon scrolls, we have already lost 11 days. When are we supposed to:
    - Complete the EI quest. We cannot leave EI otherwise?
    - Cleanse Castle Harmondale?
    - Travel through Barrow Downs and fight Gargoyles on our way to Bracada (one of them is always black)?
    - Approach the mines and save the dwarves?

    Impossible. I know that it's possible to finish the game in 4 months and 14 days. If you want to finish all quests available and cleanse all areas from "red dots" (except Walls of Mists and Breeding Zone - they reset every time you enter them) then you will need about 4 months and 16 days.





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