Post by mattchuDid any one train their Will O' Wisp amulet? The ability to search for
items is nice given the little niches you sometimes discover items
within, but to me it seems like a waste of experience points. Are
there any particularly nice upgrades for the Will O' Wisp after you
train it enough?
Its a waste of your learning points: All the Will O' Wisp amulet does is
the more you "train" it, the better the items it will find.
The amulet does not find items that aren't there. IE: its not going to run
off and then come back and say "I found a +20 strength amulet" that you
couldn't just find yourself by being perceptive and spotting it on the
ground as you run by.
If you check out the bushes, tree stumps and around the base of trees you'll
find the good herbs and plants yourself. If you check the ground as you
walk/run you'll be able to spot things like weapons, rings and amulets
laying on the ground (none of the items laying around the world are hidden:
the game doesn't have that ability to hide things under rocks, etc).
It can't even really make you money. Almost every item you find on the
ground is mostly worthless junk and even for those items the merchants only
give you 25% of their value (in Gothic 2 it was 50%, but NOTR its only 25%).
I would presume the item is in the game for the paranoid players who are
thinking "Oh man, I am going to miss the best and most powerful items in the
game if I don't train this up to search for me!" But hardly any RPG just
leaves quality items laying on the ground... they make it so you have to
"get to the next step in the story" or "solve the quest" or "kill the
baddie"