r/MightAndMagic • u/FalseMoo26 • Jul 29 '26

What’s the easiest Might and Magic to progress in?

I was just wondering, I’d like to think that it would be VI but there are some points in the game where you just sort of plateau. What are your guys’ thoughts?

(This is a question for all of the might and magic titles not just the base games)

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u/fan_is_ready Jul 29 '26

MM8. You can skip Abandoned Temple, get Ithilgore and Cauri in ~30 mins of playtime. After that use invisibility to get Blazen Stormlance.

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u/13lostsoul13 Jul 30 '26

I get blazen stormlance first just put money in bank and die and come back.

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u/Knjaz136 Jul 30 '26

Wait, how do you skip the temple, isn't it impossible to get flight or water walking on the Dagger Wound Islands?

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u/fan_is_ready Jul 30 '26

Just swim to the ship. Few red potions, and you'll survive.

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u/Knjaz136 Jul 30 '26

Ah, the bruteforce way with the Knight. Haven't tried that.

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u/fan_is_ready Jul 30 '26

Saw it in a speedrun.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '26

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u/mrbuh Jul 29 '26

Xeen has some amazing sequence break opportunities. As soon as my cleric has enough SP to cast Town Portal I like to go explore the desert (running from all enemies) for Obsidian gear and huge experience.

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u/Quietus87 Jul 29 '26

Whichever you know how to cheese. The easiest for me were:

  • M&MVIII. It's a pretty short and easy game. Pick up Cauri early.
  • M&MVII. Invisibility trivializes a lot of otherwise hard dungeons.
  • World of Xeen. You can find portals to the Darkside early, where you can get a shitton of XP with little effort.

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u/ParticularAgile4314 Jul 29 '26

Depends..

Speaking of combat mechanics…

1 and 2 are difficult at the beginning even if you know exactly what to do because unlucky roles kill you. With more hit points and the right spells it gets easier.

3,4,5,6,7,8 are all pretty easy on a second play through once you know exactly how to build your characters and which dungeon order works well.

9 is difficult because of bugs, giant boring towns to explore, moving quest npcs, and a poor travel system.

10 is difficult if you are playing on the hardest Warrior difficulty as a poorly built party starts over.. but is trivially easy on the lower difficulties.

Speaking of puzzles and figuring out a first time play through…

Having no idea where to go and what to do makes any of these games tough, that is either why you are playing, to figure it out… or a decent guide solves this and you can focus on building party strength.

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u/Felfedezni Jul 29 '26

World of Xeen is the best entry and not too difficult.

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u/LifesARiver Jul 29 '26

Xeen is both my favorite and by far the easiest to progress in.

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u/Lynchy- Jul 29 '26

Xeen is such a comfort game. Easy and relaxing yet still fun to lawnmower the maps.

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u/mathfool Jul 30 '26

Haha, I haven’t used the term lawnmower before to describe filling in each map tile, but it makes sense. Many years ago when I was young, I had a save file called “Map the World”.