Hello,

i know it's a long text, but I assume Arx Fatalis players are patient anyway :P :P.

There's quite a lot I don't quite understand or having Problems with... Here are the most important things:


The Casting Skill
It's said that it's supposed to unlock higher Level Spells, but I could use almost all spells from my spellbook from the very beginning (with less than 20 points in casting)... Is that normal? I just can't dispel high-level Barriers or summon demons etc, but I could cast the firewall from the very beginning (after i found the rune ofc), as a warrior-type...


The Ylsides
Right now I am at the point where I just got Zohark and Krahoz and am supposed to destroy the Meteor, so I just encounted the first Ylsid... Apparently the Game ends there and Akbaa wins, right? No? Well the Ylsides are unbeatable to me... It doesn't matter what I do...

In my last try I heightened my Armor and speed, while weakining his armor and poisining him, I threw everything I had at him (which means he blocked 4/5 attacks), used up all 10 Life Potions, and then I died. I read that I should use the harm spell, but I die even faster then. He doesn't even go down when I flee to the Tavern when I'm near-death, then return fully recovered...

If there isn't some kind of trick I am supposed to do, then this is probably the point where I'm just putting this game aside and mark it as broken, never to be touched again... Don't get me wrong, I love most parts of this game, but this makes me sooo angry grrr. The thought that it isn't a boss-fight, but they are more or less regular enemies from now on does NOT help at all :(.


Merchants/Items
Any chance that the merchans restock their inventory or that I find more traders near-end the game? For example I darkened my game and like to run around with torches, but I bought all of them and I rarely find them... And the Vision spell makes that annoying sound (and kills immersion a bit).
Also I am extremely disappointed that I can't buy better armor or weapons than those, that I bought quite early in the game (you find some stuff, but what I found are just the same things with some magic on it...)


- My Performance in the Menus is extremely low (the unofficial patch helped a bit) and all the Text flickers... I just watched a german let's play where everything is fine. Any Chance I could fix it? At least the flickering (or did the patch do that, Im not sure right now)?

- Also, is there a way to play with 1920x1080 without having a super-tiny HUD?

- And finally, there's no way to use AA other than the game's built-in one, right?

HERE's a screen from my Character (it's the same as the pictures attached), maybe I completely messed up the skilling?

System Specs
Win 7 64Bit
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti

Game Version
1.21 + 0.03 AFF

Any help appreciated, I wouldn't want to leave this game unfinished :(.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks a lot :). This cleared things up! Oh, okay. I will try to re-find it. I used the entrance in the tavern, as said in a walkthrough that I read (because I totally forgot where the temple actually was :P). Hmm I have to check the rebels again I think, maybe I missed it. And yeah the twin traders were killed by Goblins, because I annihilated both Clans down there ;).


And I'll definitely try Arx Libertatis!

Thanks a lot again :).

-edit-
One more thing, though.(nevermind, i made a new thread)