How does one lower AC?

Baldursgate Fan · Post by **Baldursgate Fan** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 11:39 am

I have read AJPC's solo archer's chronicles somewhere and he said something about his AC would always be high without elaboration.
Not having read any walkthroughs, I really don't know how it's done.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Kellen · Post by **Kellen** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 12:03 pm

in short dexterity: -4 and equipment, im sure you already knew this and someone else can elaborate but i have my own question that is somewhat related to this. Ac is capped at -20 correct? However spells like blur and improved invis apply a penalty to the attackers roll, not a bonus to your ac, so you can effectively go over the cap. Does this work?

Baldursgate Fan · Post by **Baldursgate Fan** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 12:15 pm

Yes Kellen. Pre-patched BG 2 allows you to stack blurs and hence, one can indeed go below -20. I am not sure if the Baldurdash patches fix those as I am not using any patches. Yet.

Just to clarify, I was referring to AJPC's interesting thread here [url="http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=004555."]http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=004555.[/url]

Can't figure out why he couldn't lower his archer's AC.

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 3:37 pm

you can no longer stack blurs or prot from elements or protect from energy.

however, this is not quite end of the world, I am a cheeser, and a contributor to the cheese mages, and this is actually better for me, since I have to work at getting the cheese effects.

so if you want healing flmaes trick, to get fire resit over 100%, get and cast BOTH prot from energy and elements, this will get you to 127% fire resist.

blur should stack with cloak of blurring, so you can at least have who ever has blur cloak get extra bonus. armor of faith is still good though not stacking, but my clerics can cast stone skin and iron skin anyway, so it just stacks well there.

Spirit armor still stacks!!!!

while you won't get extra ac, the saving throws agaisnt magical damage still stacks.

so the idea of a buff becomes quite different, instead of a bunch of stackable spells, cast a bunch of different spells so you have blur, spirit armor, prot from energy and prot from elemnts for a seriously resistant char.

Baldursgate Fan · Post by **Baldursgate Fan** » Sun Oct 07, 2001 11:01 pm

Thanks UserUnfriendly; I am starting to like cheese!

Sigh... I will be having multiple reruns of BG2 and ToB to find out about those things you said, at least until NeverWinter Nights comes out. PoR was sad

Quitch · Post by **Quitch** » Mon Oct 08, 2001 1:48 am

UserUnfriendly, have you got Kevs patch? I think it stops more stacks than Bioware clamped down on.