All my questions compressed into one

please help me

 

You don't have to read it, just keep it in your inventory. The very presence of the manual in your inventory adds to your smithy skill. Go to your character's "profile", click on smithy and see the blue number- that's your level in this discipline. The more manuals you carry, the higher your level. Of course, you don't have to drag them around with you throughout all the game, just stash them somewhere.

 

1)if i have no tech skills at all, but 15-18 int, enough smithy and explosive manuals in my backpack, can i make a pyrotechnic axe?
2) i play arcanum on a slow computer, so please tell me who can train me to be an expert in melee.. i dont feel like running around big cities lagging.
thank you.

 

it depends on whether or not you need put points into tech disciplines to be able to make items necessary to create a pyrotechnic axe, and i think you do. if that is the case then no, but if the components are available in the world, and you have the schematic, then the answer is yes.

 

Yes, you should be able to. Just get the necessery parts and schematics.

Grizzled War Veteran in Black Root will train you if you ask him about the war with Tarant and have the patience to listen till the end. Also, there should be someone on the Isle of Despair who can train you.

 

For the Pyro Axe in particular, no. You cannot find a fire obstruction anywhere in Arcanum, you can only make them.

But if you had the Blade Launcher schematic for instance. You can find an Elephant Gun, I think that some poacher in some god forsaken place that I don't feel like remembering right now, and is probably a spoiler anyway, has one. And you can get a Fine Steel Dagger at any blacksmith, so if you had the manuals and items, sure you could make it.

 

Hmm in my game, it only takes fuel to build it...

 

You wouldn't happen to be unpatched would you? I vaguely rcollect them making the Pyro Axe require Fire Obstructions in the patch, because it was far too easy getting the best melee weapon in the game.

 

Yep, unpatched and proud of it. Pyro axe for cheap, Looking Glass Rifle with damage 40-40- what else would you possibly need?

 

Lucky bastard!

No I think the game is too easy anyway, and too buggy without patches. I'm currently formulating a patch to add a bunch of new things to the game, what is the damage for the looking rifle now, I forget. I also forget if pyro axe needs kerosene or fire obstruction now. Kerosene you can get, so if that's what it needs, your set.

 

Upgrade your video card. A 32 meg video card cures most lag problems, a 64, all of them.

 

Spoilers anywhere to tell me where to get those?

 

small spoilers

Arcane weapons - Tula (each magick master has something)
Pyrotechnic bow - hahahaha Tula ( master of fire magic - strange eh )
Sword of Baltar - Dernholm - Pel'Dar or something like that

leave me I will say no more

 

Yeah its that guy I saw in a very nice place where you can find a nice sword

 

Who has the tempered and screaming shields?

 

Tempered shield- Stillwater blacksmith (this shield is tech)
Screaming Shield- Roseborough blacksmith

 

1)Small Elite Plate and Long Range Pistol- Caladon Palace, during negotiations quest only.
2)Large Plate mail- ogre bodyguards of the gambling master, who appears in Black Root tavern when you need to get to Thanatos
3)Looking Glass Rifle- Firearms master in Ashbury
4)Pyro bow- Fire master mage in Tulla
5)Arcane swords, daggers, staves, robes and a bow- Tulla master mages
6)Arcane helm and shield- Stringy Pete's ghost
Machined plate- Tulla entrance, after getting the water gem quest.
Mechanized gun- a guard in front of the factory in Tarant during orc strike quest.

 

Might as well post here since this thread has miscellaneous questions anyway:

How can I get Vollinger to use his schematics on hunting rifle and revolver chamber if he always wants to wield that rifle? Do I need to get two rifles just so that he has one in his inventory also or can I make him not wield it for a while?

Edit: umm, sorry about that. Little research and I found out about "auto equip"-option.

 

To make items for you, followers need to have components in their inventories. So in your case, you would need to have him wielding something besides the component you need.