Sadly, i gave up on this game. There were far too many enemies, and they seemed to do too much damage (even with all my characters using chain mail).

Also a bit slow and dull for my taste. I got tired of gaming, had a resurgance of interest, and now i'm tired of gaming again.

Playing MM7 on the dark path. When I kill Robert the Wise he doesn't drop anything - no blaster, no cube - any ideas?

ALL pary-memebers can get mechant, and I would recommend to get that as soon as possible for all. But only the Cleric can get GM in it. BUT: you not oly sell and buy items at higher/lesser rates, but also learn new skills at lower costs. Rank-upgrades, however alsways cost a fix price depending on the skill and rank.)

Same goes for the learning-skill. All party-members can get learning. And 1 point alone gets a 10%-bonsu for every experience, they get. (so I normaly don't level learnig past 1, except for the druid, maybe. I always take a druid in my party.)

BTW: high perception is also a way to avoid trap-damage. If a member has high perecaption, he just might dodge the trap and get no damage at all.
And the third way to handle chest-traps is the telekinesis-spell. But be carefull: although the graphic of the traps suggest, that they are just melee in reach, they realy have a far reach. You should stand as far away as possible, if you're about to open a chest with that spell.

Edit: since there doesn't seem to exist a spoiler-format in this forum, only continue to read on your own risk





























[spoiler]
I would recommend to get that fireball-wand at the beginning. But DON'T accept it from the NPC, but kill and rob him. (He deserves that!) You even can lure the dragon-flies to do that... Or you must face some consequenses later on... ^^
If you have that wand, just equip it like a weapon. BUT: you ALWAYS will use the wand, if you have it equiped, also if you have a bow or a second weapon in the other hand. So, you alway will use a charge, and, if you stand too close to an enemy, the explosion will damage your entire party. The game has a non-deactivatable friendly fire for aoe-spells like fireball. So I would just equp, fire, and de-equipt it again to save charges and to avoid using it by accident. [/spoiler]

M&M7 is the best of the series IMO! The only downside is when all the fantasy wonderfulness gets ruined by laser guns and robots.

Or, if you have a Thief, you can try to steal it from him without killing him. I did that once.