> > I got all the special equipment for my people on the n to the 100th time through level 10 :) That wizard was very stubborn in letting me find his special items. Now I'm wondering about rods? I've seen some messages talking about special rods/wands. I'm assuming there's something even better than fire/snow/poison wands. Funny thing is throughout my numerous travels through level 10 to get all the special equipment, I haven't seen any special rods or wands. Are there really special rods/wands and if so how many are we talking about here? Also, is there anything else that's really special other than the pair of "items of extra specialness" for each character, like a very special sword, a very special healing agent or anything like that?
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> There are three very nice items that you can't equip, if I remember correctly, one of which is a rod that's the rarest item in the game. There are also two really cool swords, and a plurality of once-invokable combat items.
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> If you really want to discover everything without getting too bored, retire your party and play a challenge game with a brand new party. They'll have the same chance of finding cool stuff as your first party, but at least you'll have something else to do in the meantime.
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I"ve found the power sword and samurai sword, are those the really cool swords you refer to, or are there better swords? I have found a plurality of once invokable items like scroll of pounding, restoration amulet, health amulet, reclaiming amulet, etc. They're pretty nice if you've got lower level characters, but I just sell them right back to the shop or drop them. My fighters/spellcasters don't need them to slaughter parties of monster or to help themselves (Last time I actually looked at the damage report, my assassin was hitting monsters for 10K+ damage each with a speed of around 16). Are there any really special and rare once invokable items? Maybe something that does the equivilent of Sorceror spell 35 or 36 would be nice, though not really helpful. Something that did the same thing as Death Key but much much more effectively would be nice, save me time tearing through level 10 :). I do have 2 items that I keep on my characters and don't equip--the salve of emulation and the health amulet. Are those what you are referring to other than that rod?

As for a challenge game, I don't know about that. I don't think I'd find it too interesting to do some of those challenges I've seen listed like play the game only visiting Perrin, play the game without spells/spellcasting items (makes the back 3 essentially useless), play the game without dying, etc.