++ THE COMPLETE MM6 HINT FILE ++
Compiled from newsgroup posts and personal experience.
My thanks to all the people who have contributed the collective
information available here. -Ron McPherson
(see http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~rmcphers/mm6maps.html)
[List of training locations, dragon towers, promotion quests, stables,
shrines, and potions plus a bunch of hints and riddles and the obelisk
message, and a few bugs and secrets I added at the bottom]
All EXPERT teachers require skill level 4
(see additional training requirements below also)
For Master:
All Weapons require 8 skill points
All Armor requires 10 points
All Magic skills require 12
And Misc. skills only need 7
(all masters require additionally that you have a certain level
of a statistic or be a certain promotion rank, I need more details)
>New Sorpigal:
[Dragon Tower, 1 stable]
Earth Magic expert
Fire Magic expert
Air Magic expert (Above bank, get fly scroll from bank's S. wall)
Water Magic expert (Island off E. coast)
Body Magic expert
Mind Magic expert
Spirit Magic expert
Learning expert (above self guild)
Bodybuilding expert
Meditation expert
Perception expert (above tavern)
Identify expert (above tavern)
Staff expert (South of town on mainland)
Ancient Weapons expert (N.E. of town on mainland)
>Castle Ironfist: (Outside of Castle Walls)
[stable]
[the Seer in a hut up a mountain path]
Shield expert
Leather Armor expert
Chain Mail expert
Plate Mail expert
Dagger expert (Behind tavern)
Bow expert
General hint about using many crucial items: The character who has
possession of the item (like a key, parchment, pedestal statue, etc.)
must be the active highlighted character when clicking on the place
that the item is used. If you can't get through a door that you think
you have the key for, make sure that it is in possession of the active
party member. Many people just starting out miss this.
[Solstice/Equinox dates for druids]: (not saved in autonotes)
March 20
June 21
Sept. 23
Dec. 21
[Circus dates]: (They stay for only a month)
April - Blackshire
December - Bootleg Bay
August - Mire of the Damned
(the circus is where prince Nicolai can be found after he skips out)
[Goblin Keep password]: N I L B O G
("goblin" backwards but there are others that will work)
(to complete the quest you need the parchment with the clues)
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[Temple of Baa]
central door sequence: north, east, west, south
(you'll get a "click" when each door unlocks instead of a shock)
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[Shadow Guild (S. of Castle Stone) riddle answers]:
fish
time
dark
arrow
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[Shrine pilgrimage list]:
(Visit the Seer each month to find the current active shrine.
You'll receive a permanent +10 to your stats or resistances.
Subsequent visits the next year will give you +3 more)
January - Might - Bootleg Bay NW corner.
February - Intellect - Mist
March - Personality - Silver Cove NW corner
April - Endurance - Castle WhiteCap
May - Accuracy - FreeHaven (just west of town)
June - Speed - Mire of the Damned (center west)
July - Luck - New Sorpigal off the East coast of town
August - Fire - Kriegspire down near castle in mountain
September - Electricity - center west in Castle Ironfist
October - Cold - Kriegspire north half center along mountains
November - Poison - Eel-infested waters/Alamos
December - Magic - Blackshire visible just northeast of town
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[Castle Alamos] orb password: JBARD
(visit the trees to solve this password)
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[Temple of VARN] codes: (requires the parchments to work)
aruhu
yttocs
ulus
yoccm
kcops
krik
(NWC loves that Star Trek stuff)
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[Obelisk Messages]: (written top to bottom)
In_the_land_of_
the_dragon_to_n
orth_by_far_nor
thwest,_lies_th
e_cache_of_the_
captain_'neath_
the_weight_of_t
he_least._Hid_f
or_the_ship_of_
the_sun_before_
her_functions_c
eased,_lift_the
stone_and_you_h
ave_won;_this_r
iddle's_puzzle_
pieced.________
(this cache will not show up unless you've visited all obelisks)
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[Potion mixing guide:]
# Name Type Mix Effect
-------------------------------------------------------------
First Generation
1 magic blue PhRt +10 spell points
2 energy yellow Popy +10 primary statistics (t)
3 cure wounds red WdoW +10 hit points
Second Generation
4 resistance green 1+2 +10 all resistances (t)
5 cure poison purple 1+3 cures poison condition
6 protection orange 2+3 +10 armor class (t)
Third Generation
7 super resistance white 1+4 +20 all resistances (t)
8 bless white 1+5 blessed for 6 hours
9 stone skin white 1+6 stone skinned for 6 hours
10 haste white 2+4 hastened for 6 hours
11 extreme energy white 2+6 +20 primary statistics (t)
12 heroism white 3+6 heroism for 6 hours
13 restoration white 4+5 cures all conditions but
stoned and dead
14 supreme protection white 4+6 +20 armor class (t)
Fourth Generation
15 essence of intellect black 1+9 +15 intellect, -5 might (p)
16 essence of personality black 1+13 +15 personality, -5 speed(p)
17 essence of accuracy black 2+8 +15 accuracy, -5 luck (p)
18 essence of endurance black 2+14 +15 endurance, -1 others(p)
19 essence of speed black 3+10 +15 speed, -5 persnlty (p)
20 essence of might black 3+12 +15 might, -5 intellect (p)
21 divine magic black 4+7 +100 spell points, +1 age(t)
22 rejuvenation black 4+11 cures aging, -1 to 7 stats(p)
23 essence of luck black 5+7 +15 luck, -5 accuracy
24 divine power black 5+11 +20 level, +1 age (t)
25 divine cure black 13+6 Cures everything
(t) is temporary, (p) is permanent. All age effects are magical aging.
Types are only used in mixing: you can't mix like type with like type.
There are 216 possible combinations, so obviously most combinations just
blow up. Damage is proportional to the power of the reactants. If you
explode a third and fourth generation potion, your character is
ERADICATED!
Potion pairs 15 and 20, 16 and 19, and 17 and 23 are complimentary. If
you feed the same character both, he'll get +10 to each stat.
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[hints about additional training requirements]
Lots of weird requirements (depending on what you call weird). If you
mean weird by requiring one of the "titles" then there are only 7,
although ironically there is no skill related to Great Druid or ArchDruid
that I'm aware of.
The weird seven are:
1. Sword master requires 8 skill points in sword and Cavalier title
2. Spear master requires 8 skill points in spear and Cavalier title
3. Bow master requires 8 skill points in bow and Battle Mage title
4. Chain master requires 10 skill points in chain and Crusader title
5. Plate master only requires Hero title
6. Air master only requires ARchmage title
7. Spirit master only requires High Priest title
Of course, all title requirements work for honorary titles as well (eg.
High Priest or Honorary High Priest). There are some other strange
requirements...
Axe master requires completion of the "Snergle" quest. Light master
requires a "Saintly" reputation. Dark master requires a "Notorious"
reputation (one armageddon spell and your notorious). and quite a few of
the other Masters require a minimum in a stat (eg. Merchant Master
requires 30+ Personality) as well as the normal skill point requirements.
These are easier since the game doesn't differentiate between temporary
and permanent stat levels. By the time you want to be a master in
something, you should be able to get enough magic items (or potions) to
magic yourself up to the minimum stat requirement for any skill.
For those of you who don't know, the following is the minimum skill points
required to be a master by grouping (please note exception above):
7 skill points to master a miscellaenous skill (merchant, identify,
etc...)
8 skill points to master a weapon
10 skill points to master an armor type
12 skill points to master a magic
Anyone can be an "honorary" something. Archmage, Great Druid, Hero,
etc... Michael P. Smith
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Ron's secrets/hints/bugs
Here is my advice (rjmcpher@uci.edu):
1. get ++ THE COMPLETE MM6 HINT FILE ++ and print it out.
2. think about using one of the trainer/cheater character editors
and set all your skills to +4 to begin otherwise the game is very slow to
start (see avault.com for a trainer)
3. Archers and Druids are good,elemental magic wins the game.
4. Don't put any points in your luck stat because there is a well in the
first city that can boost luck up to +15 with repeated use (once/week/+2
at a time).
5. Search for horseshoes and herbs all the time. Horseshoes raise your
skill points. Everything respawns, the rate of respawn varies, New
Sorpigal respawns in 6 months. Potions and horseshoes are vital.
Castle Kriegspire is full of horseshoes and full of minotaurs.
6. Watch the calendar all the time and plan your training carefully.
Time passes and you miss the opportunity to get shrine pilgrimages from
the Seer in castle ironfist. Get to the seer as soon as possible and
start getting pilgrimage assignments every month. Training takes a week
and so if you go to the trainer and go up more than one level in a single
visit you save yourself weeks of game time.
7. Get a banker to join your party and a merchant right away because money
makes the world go around. Plan on getting high perception (to buy things
at cost) and high merchant skill (to sell things at max). Think about
money right away or you'll be broke later in the game.
8. Don't try to satisfy each quest as you get it, plan on having a book
full of unsatisfied quests. That way you can coordinate training,
questing, travel, etc... and increase your experience faster and reduce
return trips.
9. Make the "essence of" 4th generation potions right away and get +10
added to all your stats permanently.
10. Go everywhere, get everything (except bones), kill everything (except
peasants). Killing peasants and getting bones and selling bones lowers
your reputation.
11. The game is pseudo-linear. You can go into a dungeon and explore and
kill any time you want but if you have not been sent to find a person,
then they may not be there yet. You can usually find quest items ahead
of schedule, but not all the quest people. So the master thief is not in
the sewer until you get the promotion quest, but the little girl is in the
spider dungeon/abandoned temple whether you've talked to her father in New
Sorpigal or not.
12. Save often. The Save/Reload spell is the best magic spell in the
game.
13. There is a bug or two to exploit. One in particular is in the fire
lord quest dungeon (see below). You can get unlimited experience here.
This is also a chance to get your reputation to "Saintly" since you also
get reputation bonuses. But reputation is a different story.
In short, just don't plan on mastering in Dark Magic because your
reputation will be ruined. Elemental magic and the spells SPARKS,
FIREBALL, ACID BURST, POISON SPRAY, are the most succesful spells all
game long and at higher levels you can cast FLY and drop METEOR SHOWERS on
everything and just enjoy the carnage.
[winning routine]
Once you have LLOYD's BEACON and TOWN PORTAL you can employ the following
strategy:
First, visit a +levels fountain (castle stone +10 or kriegspire +30) and
set a beacon, then drink from the fountain, then town portal to Blackshire
and cast POWER CURE, HOUR OF POWER, DAY OF THE GODS, FLY, WATER WALK, and
DAY OF PROTECTION, then drink from the Blackshire fountain and get all
your magic mana restored, then save. If you need magic resistance also,
run down to the other fountain and drink and cast STONE TO FLESH then run
back and drink to restore mana again. Now go defeat dragons. Especially
the dragons in the SouthEastern most corner of Dragonsand that are
surrounding the wonderful little shrine that gives a permanent +20 to all
statistics!
[bug]
The Firelord quest in dungeon in bootleg bay (SE near obelisk) is solved
by carrying amber and finding more amber in the dungeon and repeatedly
dropping into the center platform and then dropping down into each of the
8 or so directions and clearing the route. Teleport back and when you've
killed the anubis-looking monster and cleared all the paths you will have
solved the quest. Now when you return to the face at the dungeon's
entrance (the fire lord) and click on "quest" you will be awarded
experience and reputation bonuses. IF YOU STAY IN THAT CONVERSATION AND
KEEP CLICKING ON "QUEST" YOU WILL GET MORE BONUS ADDED. You can then
train to any level you like (if you have the money). I recommend level 15
or 20 to begin this dungeon.
Those are enough tips now.
(see http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~rmcphers/mm6maps.html)
[THE COMPLETE MM6 HINTS ADDENDUM #1]
(Shrine of the Gods and the NWC dungeon, plus "Q" and the Horn of Ros)
Based on newsgroup discussions I went and found some secrets that I will now
describe. This addendum accompanies THE COMPLETE MM6 HINT FILE which is
available at http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~rmcphers/mm6maps.html
I think all beginners should attempt to reach the Shrine of the Gods and enter
the secret New World Computing (NWC) dungeon at the very beginning of the game.
I think this is the intent of the design.
In New Sorpigal, there is a secret fly scroll hidden on the south wall of the
bank. If you get that scroll and then go to Buccaneer's Lair just behind the
bank, and walk around to the north side, you can cast fly and fly up to the roof
of Buccaneer's Lair and click on the steeple (north face) and you will be
teleported to the Shrine of the Gods.
The Shrine of the Gods is in the SE corner of Dragonsand and it is surrounded by
20 or more dragons and lizards who begin blasting you immediately. Run run run
into the shrine, face the obelisk, and click for each member of your party to
get a permanent +20 bonus added to all your statistics. This is the worth dying
for at level one in my opinion. Dying would be the only way to get back home to
New Sorpigal that I can think of at level one.
In addition, the entrance to the secret NWC dungeon is right there if you click
on the NW wall. On the map, the NW wall would be the wall towards the hilt of
the sword going through the planet (NWC logo). When you enter the NWC dungeon,
I believe you are in a representation of the companies offices. There are two
goblin bad guy characters. One has about 60 hit points and the other only 36
hit points. The smaller of the two is the producer Jon Van Caneghem. He casts
fear into the heart of the party as soon as you get near him. His desk makes a
ringing noise but I could not discern any effect or benefit to repeatedly
clicking on his desk. I cast feeblemind and charm on him and he wandered away
harmlessly.
The NWC dungeon has a few goodies for a beginning party. It has some royal
chain mail, some armor boots, a bunch of clubs, 5 phantom cloaks, about $1000 or
so in gold scattered around, an endless supply of food and empty potion bottles
(pantry), a desk full of reagents (herbs), a long bow, a staff, and maybe a few
things I overlooked.
There are employees everywhere but they are under a non-disclosure agreement and
are unwilling to discuss the game with you.
If their is a secret way to teleport back to New Sorpigal, I couldn't find it.
I am still recommending that at the beginning of the game, before doing much of
anything, a party should try to survive the dragons and teleport to the shrine,
get +20, go into the NWC dungeon, stock up on unlimited food and reagents and
get the cloaks and armor and bow and clubs, then go outside and die to get back
home. Then begin questing with +20 to all your stats!
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["Q"]
"Q" is the secret enemy guarding the chest with both Lloyd's Beacon and Town
Portal magic books. Q is hidden inside the Temple of Snakes in the middle of
the lake in Blackshire. Q is behind a secret wall in the room farthest from the
gold dragon. You have to kill the dragon to get to Q. Q is harder to kill than
just about any monster in the game. He probably has 5000 or 10,000 hit points
and he casts finger of death and eradicates people while he yells "DIE". In the
Temple of Snakes, there is a long hallway and at the end of the hall a ramp goes
down toward a doorway. But a teleport trap prevents you from ever entering the
room at the bottom of that ramp. That is the room with the secret wall Q is
behind. To get there, I had to kill the gold dragon and drop down into the pit
and then kill everything and approach that room from the other side of the
doorway/teleport trap.
More importantly, Q holds a special item THE HORN OF ROS and once you get this
item, you can then see how many actual hit points every character/monster has by
right-clicking on them. Instead of just a green bar indicating how much life
they have, you now get a text display of the exact hit point values. From then
on you can choose which monster to target with which spell carefully calculated
to precisely eliminate that monster with maximum efficiency.
Q is tough. He will eradicate everyone unless you can deliver about 5000 points
of damage in just a few rounds. I used incinerate. Good luck.
