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fong posted:Can't remember if Anomen will get access to fighter HLAs as well is all - if not then Minsc is the obvious choice for tank later on and I'd want to start putting Anomen's proficiencies into dual wield. Zephro posted:What's a good setup for a small (3-4 people) party? Would fighter, fighter/thief, cleric, mage work? I'm avoiding fighter/cleric because it's hard to cast spells while you're being hit in the face...
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The trick to IWD is a majority of party members being a flavor of fighter, plus one or two people who can cast area denial spells like grease, web, entangle, spike stones, so on. Throw a bard in if you don't mind waiting for regen instead of casting cleric spells. Everybody is an archer because its infinite rerolls until everyone has 18 dex for AC if not attack. The biggest reason not to have 4 fighters, a druid, and a mage is there isn't enough good loot for all those fighters.
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Factor_VIII posted:No, Anomen only gets Cleric HLAs. Guess Minsc is my tank then. Probably for the best, Anomen needs to be free to cast anyway.
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Zephro posted:Hm. Why so many thieves? You can surely get by with just the one? It was mostly for flavor actually, I could have made a more optimized party if I wanted. Both my fighter/thieves pumped stealth so they could be scouts, and one of open locks/find traps each. My thief/mage could have been another fighter/mage for no real loss, but I preferred thief for the RP reasons (was a gnome) and to have a reason beyond lack of regular bows to go shortbow. Also, I feel the need to add, a LOT of the good bows in the game, especially early on, are random loot, so you could get hosed over somewhat with this kind of bow-heavy party. That extra attack one in Dragon's Eye for example. A single archer shouldn't have an issue arming themselves though.
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Angry Lobster posted:The casting failure effect is only marginally useful, so don't bother trying to abuse it. Factor_VIII posted:Maybe Aerie wanted to have a child in order to use it to bind CHARNAME to her. A possible solution for the PC might have been to kill Aerie and then instruct the priest raising her not to bring the fetus back to life as well. 
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Dec 14, 2013 03:03
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Behold the kind of mentality that gets the creepy mods made. Whether it's done ironically or not really doesn't matter.
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Insurrectionist posted:Also, I feel the need to add, a LOT of the good bows in the game, especially early on, are random loot, so you could get hosed over somewhat with this kind of bow-heavy party. That extra attack one in Dragon's Eye for example. A single archer shouldn't have an issue arming themselves though. Nah, Messenger of Sseth always drops. There's a 4 base APR Longbow +4 (Longbow +4: Hammer) that's random loot in Dorn's Deep though.
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John McCain posted:Nah, Messenger of Sseth always drops. There's a 4 base APR Longbow +4 (Longbow +4: Hammer) that's random loot in Dorn's Deep though. Really? Guess it was the Protector then, which is quite solid (and I'd miss it in a multi-bow party) but obviously, extra APR is king. Of course, two awesome crossbows can drop instead so if you're running a Crossbow character, the point stands.
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Dec 14, 2013 03:50
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Wait so can you trick the game somehow and have a lesbian relationship with Aerie and have a baby somehow? And how is the Hexxat romance? I've got an evil chick I'm taking from BG1 to 2.
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Arcaeris posted:Wait so can you trick the game somehow and have a lesbian relationship with Aerie and have a baby somehow? It's p. cool if you're into sassy black corpses.
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Arcaeris posted:And how is the Hexxat romance? I've got an evil chick I'm taking from BG1 to 2. I've not finished it (only recently started ToB) but so far it sure beats out the canon romances at least. No healing the poor, wounded woman (or Anomen) in sight, yet. Vague ToB spoilers: Apparently the ending is somewhat big or controversial or something? Never seen details, but it having large threads on official forums (get my bugfixes there) and general murmurs seem to indicate it, so it might go great/poo poo at that point I guess.
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So I've heard a fair bit of rumbling about ToB bugs in the EE. Is it mostly just the new EE content that's unstable in ToB or what
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Insurrectionist posted:I've not finished it (only recently started ToB) but so far it sure beats out the canon romances at least. No healing the poor, wounded woman (or Anomen) in sight, yet. Vague ToB spoilers: Apparently the ending is somewhat big or controversial or something? Never seen details, but it having large threads on official forums (get my bugfixes there) and general murmurs seem to indicate it, so it might go great/poo poo at that point I guess. Pretty sure that's just more fanboys being homophobic and racist though, to be entirely honest.
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Captain Oblivious posted:So I've heard a fair bit of rumbling about ToB bugs in the EE. Is it mostly just the new EE content that's unstable in ToB or what Mostly it's only in the new content. Rasaad's quest is pretty hosed at the moment, but I played through Neera's fine. I haven't played the other two. There are apparently a couple bugs here and there, but as a whole the core content is very stable.
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Thanks for the all the IWD advice, guys. How about: Dwarf Fighter, large swords / flails, 1h/shield. Half-elf Fighter/Cleric, maces / hammers, 1h/shield. Half-elf Fighter/Mage, Longbows / Staves Half-elf Fighter/Thief, Shortbows / something The fighter and fighter/cleric tank on the front lines, the other two hang back and shoot / nuke stuff. Or I could make the fighter/thief a melee character, which might be a better use - shortswords / daggers or something? I thought about dualling the fighter/mage rather than multiclassing it, but eh. I took dwarf for the extra CON, but I might make it half-elf as well because of that one elves-only shield.
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Arcaeris posted:Wait so can you trick the game somehow and have a lesbian relationship with Aerie and have a baby somehow? IIRC before one of the patches, female characters could somehow end up triggering the romance at the point when that dialogue turned up. So they not only found themselves in an unexpected relationship but suddenly as one of a newborn child's two mothers. That happening was pretty 
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So, I finished a (mostly) solo bard playthrough of BGEE a while ago, and got BG2EE so I could continue playing the character. I decided I'd take a small party this time, though I didn't recruit either Minsc or Jaheira, but I took Imoen with me (so I wouldn't miss out on any important loot). After finishing the dungeon I was level 11, with some 250k XP. Since I'm going for a small party taking Aerie along seemed like a good idea -- I've never had her in my party for an extended period, so this would be a good chance to push the limits of that insanely good multi-class combination. So I stroll into the circus, free her, press tab to check HP ("42? That's pretty high!") and then immediately check her character record: she's 10/11 cleric-mage with 1.2 million XP in the bank, holy poo poo! ... That's a bit imbalanced, isn't it? oh, did I happen to mention that the clone in Irenicus' dungeon dropped a scroll of simulacrum? Actually, since I don't have much experience with cleric/mages (or clerics!), does anyone have any suggestions for early spells I should be gunning for, or any general spell tips? Aside from polymorph shaenigans with sequencer buffs, I actually don't have much of a clue what I should have Aerie memorize (except "less different spells", the default spell selection for her leads to horrible clutter in the menus!). verybad fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Dec 14, 2013 |
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verybad posted:So, I finished a (mostly) solo bard playthrough of BGEE a while ago, and got BG2EE so I could continue playing the character. I decided I'd take a small party this time, though I didn't recruit either Minsc or Jaheira, but I took Imoen with me (so I wouldn't miss out on any important loot). After finishing the dungeon I was level 11, with some 250k XP. Since I'm going for a small party taking Aerie along seemed like a good idea -- I've never had her in my party for an extended period, so this would be a good chance to push the limits of that insanely good multi-class combination. So I stroll into the circus, free her, press tab to check HP ("42? That's pretty high!") and then immediately check her character record: she's 10/11 cleric-mage with 1.2 million XP in the bank, holy poo poo! she's such a high level because you are, I'm pretty sure each joinable npc has 2 or 3 different XP levels they can join at according to the pc xp/level, so if you are level 11, rather than 7/8 you get the higher leveled npc version.
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Kallor posted:she's such a high level because you are, I'm pretty sure each joinable npc has 2 or 3 different XP levels they can join at according to the pc xp/level, so if you are level 11, rather than 7/8 you get the higher leveled npc version. Yeah, I know, it just silly how it's based on levels and not XP. Funnily enough, I had the opposite problem in BGEE, where for some reason my high level character would get level 1-2 NPCs whenever I tried to recruit them.
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verybad posted:Yeah, I know, it just silly how it's based on levels and not XP. Funnily enough, I had the opposite problem in BGEE, where for some reason my high level character would get level 1-2 NPCs whenever I tried to recruit them. It gets funny the other way around when your party consists of a lot of dual/(especially) multi-classed characters. Hope you like everyone joining you at lovely levels! It really should be by XP. Then again, I always just CluaConsole new partymembers to have the same XP as the character I replaced (unless they already have more).
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That Aerie starting level is definitely a bug. In vanilla BG2 I think she can actually start with even as low as 6/6 mage/cleric. With you having 250k xp already she would probably spawn as higher lvl, but not with 1.2million xp.
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The BGEE 1.2 patch is live for iPad users, finally.
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For the people talking about the ending to the Hexxat romance, it's not awful, but it really is not amazing either. I'm gonna go ahead and paraphrase it here but It talks about that annoying woman who turns up to give Hexxat her missions from L more than Hexxat and the PC. 'Oh, wossname was very upset and totally told everyone how the big mean bhaalspawn stole her Hexxat away and are you paying attention SHE WAS SAD. LIKE REALLY SAD. And she told everyone. This is IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KNOW. Also Hexxat and the PC get a house I guess. In Waterdeep. You really do only get a couple of lines about what Hexxat and the PC do after the game. Literally two or three lines. It really feels like they threw them in as an afterthought a few minutes before they shipped everything off to sell.
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verybad posted:oh, did I happen to mention that the clone in Irenicus' dungeon dropped a scroll of simulacrum?
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I think I got a Horrid Wilting scroll in that room once. I was running a solo Berserker/Cleric dual class at the time.
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so pocketplane.net has been playing up for me consistently for about a week, only letting me download the first few kb of any mod hosted there. does anyone know either where/if these mods are mirrored anywhere or, failing that, would anyone have the mod to bring Coran into BG2 handy (http://www.pocketplane.net/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=113&Itemid=84) to put up on mediafire or similar? edit: perfect, thanks SSB Babby Thatcher fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Dec 14, 2013 |
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Babby Thatcher posted:so pocketplane.net has been playing up for me consistently for about a week, only letting me download the first few kb of any mod hosted there. Here you go: http://www.mediafire.com/download/5lwnk3w3qcm39da/Coran_v3.zip
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Any tips for Dragomir's tomb? Drago keeps kicking my rear end and I can't really seem to get him to an injury state higher than Barely Injured.  My party consists of my Fighter main character, Minsc, Jaheira (cursed), Anomen, Hexxat and Korgan. We're level 10-11ish. feraltennisprodigy fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Dec 15, 2013 |
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feraltennisprodigy posted:Any tips for Dragomir's tomb? Drago keeps kicking my rear end and I can't really seem to get him to an injury state higher than Barely Injured. You badly need an arcane caster. Ditch minsc, korgan or Jaheira and pick up either neera or Edwin.
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There's a protection from undead scroll in one of the tombs, cast it on someone who has a +2(?) or better weapon and send them in alone. He won't even attack you.
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Heh, I didn't have that Protection from Undead scroll, but Anomen had a Protection from Evil spell that worked on the entire party. Dragomir went down like a chump with that active. Thanks guys. I definitely need to get a proper mage, that is true. I'll try to find Neera and Edwin when I get out of this tomb
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Just through regular play of the EE when will you hit the xp cap? I'm at the start of chapter 7, I did all of the side quests in pretty much every area, did all of the new NPC quests, and am doing TSC content now, and CHARNAME is still 50k from xp cap which means 30k from 4x backstab. I want my 4x backstab! Related, is there anyplace with respawning enemies that I can farm a quick 30k with him? I'm at the point I'd ditch everyone else just to hit level 8 on the multi.
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With a six-character party, you need to do most of the original game and at least Durlag's Tower to reach the xp cap. Durlag's Tower gives a lot of xp. If you want to farm xp, maybe try resting in the ankheg dungeon south of the Baldur's Gate bridge?
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I need help with my solo F/M/T in BG2 - Greater Werewolves are kicking my rear end fiercely on the way to Firkraag what is the best way to deal? I know i can handle the dragon but hosed if i can beat the 5 werewolves and pals outside his door.
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Hughlander posted:Just through regular play of the EE when will you hit the xp cap? I'm at the start of chapter 7, I did all of the side quests in pretty much every area, did all of the new NPC quests, and am doing TSC content now, and CHARNAME is still 50k from xp cap which means 30k from 4x backstab. I want my 4x backstab! Ankhegs give 975 xp and disturb sleep in the area north of Friendly Arm Inn. They can be kind of dangerous as they hit hard and have a lot of HP, but they are very vulnerable to sleep. Nation posted:I need help with my solo F/M/T in BG2 - Greater Werewolves are kicking my rear end fiercely on the way to Firkraag what is the best way to deal? Can't you just invis and walk right past them? I'd think an F/M/T that can take down Firkraag was able to deal with the werewolves, just slap on every combat buff you have and fight them in a chokepoint where only one or two can reach you, or try trap cheese if all else fails. verybad fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Dec 15, 2013 |
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Nation posted:I need help with my solo F/M/T in BG2 - Greater Werewolves are kicking my rear end fiercely on the way to Firkraag what is the best way to deal? Improved werewolves from the tweak pack turns them into real monsters. Maybe you used that?
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They were brutal but I just managed to squeeze past with barely any hp, I would skip past them but this is my evil run from bg1 > finish in the new version and I am pretty under-leveled already for a multi-class. e: Also the dragon chased me up the stairs and killed the hostage :x
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Nation posted:e: Also the dragon chased me up the stairs and killed the hostage :x How did that happened? You could free the hostage right after killing the mage and Tazok, and after the hostage gets out you can go after the dragon. Also, when he chases you to the upper floor it gets stuck in the door and can't chase you further, so if you don't engage directly at most he thows some fire breath when it has vision.
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