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Dwarves (Dwarfs?) get a +1 to CON and a -1 to DEX. Otherwise, nice OP.
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Cleric/Ranger also gets the Ranger's free 2 pips in 2-Weapon Style which is not nothing. Flail of Ages main, Defender of Easthaven offhand you're set for the game in chapter 2.
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An Ironman thread sounds fun. I'm feeling the itch to reinstall, so it'll be fun getting my arse handed to me by SCS in a game I haven't played all the way through in a few years! Planning a small team "Bhaalspawn" run (with a Yoshimo cameo) which I've run through along time ago without it being Ironman. Fully expecting to die to Tarnesh or something equally humiliating.
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My most successful Ironman run to date took an Archer all the way to Yaga-Shura's lair in ToB before biting it. Having a PC that avoids the frontline is pretty handy.
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Nov 27, 2013 19:20
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cheesetriangles posted:Well my half orc berserker ironman game is over just as quickly as it began. Silke hit me with 30 damage worth of magic missiles in one shot. Magic Missiles tops out at 25, I thought? 1d4+1 per missile, 5 missiles at lvl 9.
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Nov 27, 2013 23:51
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Unless you're running Boon of Lathander and have been Improved Hasted by your pet mage (or some swanky gauntlets).
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Nov 28, 2013 00:36
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Armour of Faith, Hardiness, Defender of Easthaven. Come at me, (half-)bro.
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Factor_VIII posted:Traps were also really effective on the liches guarding Kangaxx's boy parts and Kangaxx himself. I must have missed that part of the quest...
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Imoen was named after a PnP character, who was in turn named after a girl called Neomi who the guy had a crush on.
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Sleep of Bronze posted:Source? Something I remember reading on the old (old) Bioware forums back in the day. e: Not the original source, but a couple of others bringing the story up http://www.shsforums.net/topic/26304-familiar-name-in-the-company-directory/page-2 sebzilla fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Dec 17, 2013 |
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You're all buffle-headed.
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oswald ownenstein posted:What on earth is that? http://eternity.obsidian.net/ So loving excited.
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Dec 18, 2013 04:25
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Learn how to use spells, basically. Negative Plane Protection to stop level drain. Chaotic Commands to stop Confusion etc. And get some sort of dispel, breach or similar to counter mages. What party are you running with?
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Dec 24, 2013 20:20
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Captain Oblivious posted:Clanger is never the wrong answer to any question. Oh yeah? What do you call a mouse that lives on the moon... oh, wait.
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Dec 25, 2013 20:02
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Jabor posted:You can get a scroll of it in Candlekeep, the jerk you're supposed to deliver it to won't mind if you keep it for yourself. I'd be mildly surprised if Thalantyr didn't have it for sale at High Hedge.
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gender illusionist posted:So what's a good weapon combo for a clanger? Other than the usual Flail of the ages/Crom Faeyr, is there anything interesting? Runehammer is a decent swap-out option for the FOA as your main hand. And I prefer the Defender of Easthaven to CF in my off-hand, as permanent physical damage resist is more useful when you can buff your strength with cleric spells if you really need to, but DOE + Armour of Faith + Hardiness makes you the tankiest tank.
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verybad posted:Elver and Dwarves taking a hundred years to mature into adulthood doesn't even make any loving sense. Are they toddlers for 30 years? It's just stupid. "People taking 15+ years to mature into adulthood doesn't make even any loving sense. Are they puppies for ten years? It's just stupid." - A dog. A hundred years does seem pretty extreme, but I guess it's to show they're all magical and intelligent and superior to us humans.
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I'm pretty sure Aerie will date Gnomes.
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insanityv2 posted:I'd just like to successfully get off one backstab before I finish the game As well as the advice in the post above, in order to backstab you also need to be using an appropriate weapon (anything usable by a single-class thief) and standing behind your target.
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. It kind of bothers me that I have this much time in this game and still haven't the foggiest how this works.
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Big Bottom posted:Can someone explain to me why anyone would use a dagger when they have such low damage? I've been playing IE games for years and never ever used daggers, although I'm no master of D&D rules. You might be a (thief/)mage after an alternative to staves/slings. Or you might think a particular dagger is nifty. Teh Dagger of Venom in BG1 is crazy good. The Boomerang dagger is situationally useful I guess. There are probably others. And anyway, the difference between 1d4 and 1d6 is not all that much, especially if you're then adding various modifiers. e: Also they tend to attack really quickly (speed factor), which is potentially useful for disrupting mages.
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Milky Moor posted:There's a lot of things I adore about BG2. I like how it establishes a relationship between CHARNAME, Imoen, Jaheira, Minsc, Khalid and Dynaheir. However, this is also a bit of a flaw. Even with so many characters in BG2, I can't bring myself to break up the canon BG1 group simply because of the circumstances they find themselves in at the start of the game. It'd be pretty rough if, when reaching the surface, CHARNAME kicked them all out and went off by himself. Because of this, my party always tends to be CHARNAME, Minsc, Jaheira, Yoshimo, Aerie and Viconia. Why? Because the first two are old friends who have literally no one else, Yoshimo assists you with breaking out of the dungeon and is generally an honorable and pleasant individual (and the Geas subplot), Aerie is one of the first people you probably meet and, y'know, can't really stay in that circus her whole life (and Minsc takes her as his new witch) and Viconia obviously travelled with the group at some point given how Jaheira refers to her. Yoshimo, eventually, gets swapped out for Imoen. This, but Haer'Dalis instead of Viconia because of his interactions with Aerie. Viconia can burn.
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netcat posted:Anyone have experience of items just disappearing from your inventory in BG2:EE? I just noticed my amulet of metaspell influence was missing from my PC and I'm pretty sure I never unequipped it Have you been fighting Nishruus? I believe they have some stupid ability to destroy magic items on hit.
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cheesetriangles posted:So I made a mage/thief and it turns out to be a good combo because fill every slot with invis and then backstab for a billion damage. If I have improved invis on does it help me hide in shadows? Just wait until you can cast Mislead.
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I'm pretty sure it's just a random drop with a tiny tiny chance of appearing. With a riddle on, because why not? No quest significance or anything, though.
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Ginette Reno posted:You can add that helm that gives +50 resistance to bludgeoning damage in TOB to get that character up to 90% resist to bludgeoning Yep. Makes the Marching Mountains a breeze.
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ratchild13 posted:I think with EE, you can't use the otilukes sphere trick on the dukes anymore, I kept trying it and guards would spawn and destroy me. That makes no sense. ORS is not an offensive spell.
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Pivotal Lever posted:160k. Remove the cap if you want to do a triple class run, unless you can beat Sarevok at like 5/5/6 One of my favourite BG runs was with an uncapped duo of Imoen and a Ranger/Cleric PC. It felt awesome to be able to stand toe to toe with Sarevok and just trade blows with the overcompensating bastard while our sister provided the heavy artillery. Then we raised the poor sucker from the dead in ToB to help us take down our other power-hungry siblings. A beautiful family experience!
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Smorgasbord posted:It does make some early fights in BG1 a frustrating pain in the rear end though, good luck taking down the Ogre Mage at Firewine Bridge without Remove Magic/Detect Illusion etc which you probably won't have learned/definitely won't have memorised at the point most people get there. I tihnk it does a good job in emphasising the "stick to the path and you'll probably be fine, go wandering and you could be in over your head" message. Firewine is very much an optional area, and not one I tend to rush to. Usually the first "wilderness" areas to hit are the ones in the south-west of the map. Once you've done those and the Nashkel Mines your party starts feeling a bit more resilient. Ogre Mages *should* gently caress you up if you're low level. Not every fight needs to be winnable by a party of low-level idiots. That was true in the base game and SCS just reinforces it.
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Lilli posted:Hahahah, holy poo poo, wild magic is the best thing. *is killed by falling cow*
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Nov 26, 2014 20:26
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What was the decision on Iron Man? Are we waiting for a new thread after Christmas, or getting stuck in now? I've got the itch, and I'm not talking about Summon Insects.
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If you're running BG1NPC then Xzar is way more entertaining than Kagain. Unless you're really into dour money-grubbing mercs, I guess.
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Always Half-elf Cleric/Ranger multi.
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Sanctuary is quite useful for backstabbing and the running away. DUHM and other cleric buffs are also good for mega backstabs. I guess you could use the Cleric Find Traps spell as well if you want to save thief points. It's not the most obvious synergy, but there is some useful crossover I guess. Fighter/Cleric and Thief/Mage is definitely a better power duo than Fighter/Mage and Cleric/Thief, though.
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Skwirl posted:That would probably the way to go, you can throw a poo poo ton of darts in one round. Hi, Zal! (or was it Vax?)
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I'm a giant nerd so one of the tracks on my bands forthcoming debut album is called What Can Change the Nature of a Man? The song is about regret.
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Milky Moor posted:As far as canon goes, it seems clear to me that the canon BG2 group is Charname, Minsc, Jaheira, Aerie, Viconia and Yoshimo. Yoshimo is replaced by Imoen during Spellhold. Otherwise, Yoshimo literally just falls over dead in the Copper Coronet for no apparent reason the next time you go back there. I'd go Haer'Dalis instead of Viconia, for his ties to Aerie and the fact he's not Evil. Also stops the group from being quite so heavy on divine casters.
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Haer'Dalis definitely needs to be part of any Wild Mage's Ultimate Chaos party. I mean, just look at the dude's swords.
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What exactly are you struggling with? If you're planning on dropping Nalia, who are you going to replace her with? You could do with an extra front-liner probably (I'd have Jaheira up there too) so there are a few decent candidates out there. Aerie will probably tell you to go back and chat to Quayle soon enough (or you can just head to the Five Flagons in the Bridge district and bypass the hint) which will lead you to my preferred choice to round out the party, a front-liner with a magical twist. Alternatively, head to the Temple district to meet a character who'll make enemy mages cry.
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amanasleep posted:Choose "bad" classes if you like to solo. Some of them have very interesting High Level potential. This. I remember Alesia_BH soloing Ascension on the old Bioware forums with some interesting classes. Some unusual specialist mages (abjurer and transmuter from memory), Bounty Hunter and possibly Jester.
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Gnome Illusionist/Thief. Mislead.
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