> > > > Lyesis is proving to be one heck of a death trap.
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> > > > After my last successful resurrection run to Perinn and return to Lyesis, I got another two dead characters on board and tried to get them to Perinn. They failed, and I ended up in a situation where 1 (count it!) character of my whole 12 character roster was alive, the rest were dead.
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> > > > I sold off some expensive item (Gloves of Dexterity +1 or something) and managed to resurrect 4 more characters, and then I picked a party of 4 alive and 2 dead characters.
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> > > > Miracle of miracles, they got to Perinn, so I resurrected the two dead guys, and tried to get back to Kaliti.
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> > > > Imagine my surprise when I found out I had neglected to bring a Gatekeeper's key along. So I had once more to walk through the entire 4th level, killing everything I encountered. Killing the Gatekeeper and his minions was a breeze, what with one Sorcerer of level 13 and two of level 11.
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> > > > So now I have 6 characters alive at Perinn and 1 alive at Lyesis. I think I won't have all 12 alive at once until they all are at least of level 13...
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> > > After I completed the task I needed to on level 7(I won't tell what it is since I don't know if you've done it yet) I went back to operating out of Kaliti since it's right by the elevator and a lot cheaper than Lyesis.
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> > I will do that too. Getting out of Lyesis alive is still extremely difficult. Currently I have 7 characters alive and 5 dead. Luckily I sometimes pick valuable items up from the dungeons, selling one of those at Lyesis gives me enough gold to resurrect 3 characters at Perinn. The difficult part is getting to Perinn...
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> > My weakest characters are now of level 11 and my strongest are of level 15. I guess I'm not even halfway ready for level 8 yet...
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> Looks like the only way to survive encounters with monsters on level 6 is to kill them all brutally. I typically have my level 15 Wizard cast EPIDEMIC and 3 Sorcerors each cast SHRAPNELS or RAZORS. That usually takes care of enough monsters so that the rest can be finished off by hand.
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Try using SEIZURES, too. Works wonderfully!

> Looks like I won't be having space for Rogues. Perhaps I should retrain my two Rogues as Knights or Sorcerers? But first I have to try to get all 12 characters out of Lyesis alive. Right now I'm concentrating on getting them alive in the first place, after that I will split them into two parties who will each go back to Kaliti on their own.

Either assassins or sorcerors. But I suggest keeping 1 rogue, just because they level up like crazy later on. (Disarming a trap is worth 20,000XP on level 9!)