corpus??/spoilers...and some new experiment ideas...

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Thu May 30, 2002 1:23 am

those who knew me as a major cheese meister in bg2 forums will recognize this, the user puts out some new cheese, and posts a question at the same time...

corpus???

I am still getting my stronghold in decent shape, doing trevanni quests to get promoted to master so i can give up my copy of dwemer animeculi to get robot guards...

so i have not even done th corpus quest of the main blades quest!!! at lv 50 or so...eek....

so i have heard somewhere that in the main quest, you get the corus disease, and the longer you keep the disease before getting the cure, the more stats boost up....

at high 90s for endurace and str, how do i maximize the effect???

how do i get the best possible exploit for it??? i need details...

new experiemnt, will post results later, but essentially, what happens if you whack a summons, like a saint, with a absorb magic spell???

now those of us who are spell casters know if you use that spell or bind to a weapon, at the end of the duration the stolen mana is returned or you lose it... but what happens if the creature dies???i mena we have all been hit with stats drain before, right?? and if you kill the mage or creature, you still have drained stats you need to use a spell for. so what i am thinking is if you absorb magic with a blade, and whack it fast enough with the sword and kill it, you might KEEP the mana....

thus once again the best sign and race is breton with atronach...

recharge with your sword!!!

looking so foward to trevanni stronghold, i have location mark for a dungeon, but no dungeon yet, could be still part of phase 2...

cjdevito · Post by **cjdevito** » Thu May 30, 2002 8:41 am

Okay, first with regard to telvanni... if you're a wizard rank right now, you do -not- want to advance again until you've done -all- of Aryon's quests. If you ask for advancement before that time you'll be made master.... and never be able to be promoted to the next rank, magister. If you do all of Aryon's quests before asking for promotion, you'll be given a choice of what rank you want, master of magister. Pick magister, and you'll be able to become the head of house telvanni (and, of course, finish your stronghold). If you go master, you can finish your stronghold, but go no further.

As to corpus, corpus will raise strength and endurance over 100 with no problem. So if you want 200 str/200 end, just keep the disease around for another hundred days or so.

Ares2382 · Post by **Ares2382** » Thu May 30, 2002 10:08 am

one minor point about the whole corpsus thing. If iafter you get cured your stregth and/ or endurance gets drained, and you go to restore it. IT WILL RESTORE THEM BACK TO WHAT THEY SHOULD BE WITHOUT CORPSUS.

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Thu May 30, 2002 12:53 pm

oh. nutz!!!!

looks like i have to dump saves again!!!

i did indeed ask for master rank, wanted my stronghold....

and found out i have foresworn rank of magister!!!...

thanks!!!

cjdevito · Post by **cjdevito** » Thu May 30, 2002 12:57 pm

Alright, don't dump your saves. There is a workaround.

In the console, type player->pclowerrank "telvanni"

Or it might be player->pc_lower_rank "telvanni" or some variant along those lines.

That'll bring you down to wizard rank. Then just finish all of Aryon's quests and ask for advancement, and you'll be offered the choice of ranks.

cjdevito · Post by **cjdevito** » Thu May 30, 2002 1:00 pm

I just double checked, it's player->PCLowerRank "Telvanni"

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Fri May 31, 2002 4:11 am

thanks, i was wizard rank when i finished aryons quests, you cant progress to archmagister....

so i dropped to spell wright, that did the trick...

at the end of his quests he auto promotes you one grade....

making you ineligable to be grand poohbah....

killed gothern, havent even gotten to first 6th house base, just finished up destruction skill at 100, found secret master for destruciton, a real cutie....

at aroudn level 60 now, and havent even seriously started main quest...was busy getting stronhold fixed up...

and seeing the secret masters...

the secret master for blunt, in vivec....he dont offer to train!!!WTF......

found faralenu heinen in vivec st deryn temple, but he has no train option....

????????

so are the other house quests similary trapped????

i mean, i am a ambitious person, so i asked for advance ment all the time...this got me into trouble....

sigh...