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The Recluse

Invisibility and Wizards Towers, like everyone else said. Plonk a Wizard's Tower next to the Yeti Lair when your Wizard attacks it so you've got the range to cast the spell.

Only thing to add is that Guardhouses make life much easier. They each spawn a city guard, and 3 are enough to keep things safe (or safe enough until your Wizard comes back from bounty hunting). Just don't upgrade the Guardhouses, as if they have arrows then monsters attack them.

A Market, an Inn, and 3-4 Guardhouses and you've all the money you need.

A neat idea and something that does things differently. I found this to be pretty difficult because you're always short on cash (markets and trading posts are hard to defend because your wizard can't be everywhere at once to fight off trolls) and your wizard keeps fleeing in terror.

After several tries, I found that getting a Sorcerer's Abode for Change of Heart was essential. Also, Invisibility for whenever a yeti shows up. I tried different temple combos, but Krypta for Wither and Lunord for Winged Foot were the only ones I found to be useful (would have loved to use Rage of Krolm, but was always too broke). Towards the end, it just felt tedious to have to stave off yetis with Wizard's Towers while my wizard would teleport away and go into an inn before I could change his heart (and sometimes I would change it and he would immediately flee again!)

I think this is a really good mission design with a unique goal, but it just needs some balance fine tuning before it's great.

I like this quest. Most of the other ones start off either way to hard, or are nearly impossible at the end.

Really good mission design!

Using the invisibility spell from the wizard's guild was pretty much my strategy to keep my wizard alive. Only had to restart once because I looked away and a wild Yeti appeared. Use the invisibility spell as soon as the wizard is about to get hit by a monster.

It was also nice the quest still allowed guilds and temples to be built. That helped a lot with the defenses when the wizard was staying inside an Inn.

Really liked it, and indeed it was a challenge. I wonder would it be possible to have the same premise, but with different hero types? I imagine it might be even more difficult, because of course a wizard can become an absolute powerhouse, but I would sure love to try it with a Ranger, a Priestess, a Barbarian, a Gnome (lol).

This is challenging. Try it without loading a save.

This is by far the best additional quest added. It has a clear end goal and was challenging to do. The others I have played have been poorly designed and too many restrictions. Good work on this one.

holy god that was hard, but i did it legit. probably should have gone for elves and reload-cheated with the gambling hall tbh

Just completed it. WOW what a quest! Had to reload a ton of times because Yetis one-shotted my Wizard, hah. Still, I enjoyed this custom mission a lot, thank you very much for it :)