How many of you use a long sword as your main weapon?

jace4ever · Post by **jace4ever** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 8:05 am

Fellow members of the forums. I noticed that the there is no powerful long swords that are +4 and above mentioned so far in the Baldur's Gate 2 sites. How many of you guys are like to use the long sword and have any of you all found any powerful long swords yet?

FuSiOn · Post by **FuSiOn** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 9:04 am

i do.. there aren't too many good long swords.. but my proficiency is with long swords and mace.. there aren't good maces either..
anyways argurvadel is +5 .. i think you have to combine it with something to get to
+5..otherwise it was +4 i think @@

Irenin · Post by **Irenin** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 9:07 am

There is a few powerful long swords in the game. One is agurvadal +5, you find it as +4 but then upgrade it later. Anyhow...it gives the wielder 22 str and does 1d8 +5,1d4+1 fire dmg. Pretty nice =). Also theres "The Answerer" which lowers magic resistance by 15% each hit and lowers ac by 2 each hit. Those are two ive found thus far. No good maces??!?! Storm Star is awesome.

[ 06-23-2001: Message edited by: Irenin ]

MegaToerist · Post by **MegaToerist** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 9:08 am

My main character uses scimitars...there's even less of those

.

TC, Geert

FuSiOn · Post by **FuSiOn** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 9:16 am

storm star? where did you find that?
i only have skullcrusher which is +3 i think.. -+;; other than that i didn't find any other maces(started from TOB).. and i'm pretty much at the end of tob..

Irenin · Post by **Irenin** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 12:22 pm

Storm Star you get from machine of lum the mad, one of the notes you pick up tells you how to get it. Its originally storm star +3 but you upgrade it to storm star +5. Its a nasty mace.

Blackrose · Post by **Blackrose** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 5:41 pm

Yeah, i use longswords usually blade of roses and flametongue. Did you know flametongue counts as a +4 weapon (it can hit Kangaxx, so i checked it in infinity explorer & it's classed as +4). And i haven't got ToB

so i can't comment on new longswords.

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 6:25 pm

Daystar, Dragonslayer, Blade of Roses are the good long swords of the original game (don't have ToB yet

).

Mr. Sprinkles · Post by **Mr. Sprinkles** » Sat Jun 23, 2001 6:47 pm

Let's not forget Blackrazor

MegaToerist · Post by **MegaToerist** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 12:08 am

@Mr. Sprinkles:
Blackrazor may be very powerful, but how long can you wield it in SoA?

jace4ever · Post by **jace4ever** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 12:40 am

Mega Toerist has a point, how long can Black Razor last in TOB?
Not to forget that some monsters (eg, Demogorgon) can only be hit by +4 weapons and above.
Come to think of it, apart from argurvadel is +5 and the answerer, are there any other powerful +4 long swords?
Hopefully, the administrator will post up the locations of some of the swords soon.

MegaToerist · Post by **MegaToerist** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 1:12 am

@Jace4Ever:
[url="http://www.skullport.com/games/bg2/tobitems.shtml"]Here[/url]'s a list of most new items in ToB. They don't have any locations mentioned, adn neither do they have the "basic" version of most items, but it's a decent list. I couldn't find any other long swords that are better than The Answerer and Angurvadal

. (now, we'll have to figure out just how long "The Answerer"'s effect lasts)

TC, Geert

[ 06-24-2001: Message edited by: MegaToerist ]

Bobsy · Post by **Bobsy** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 2:20 am

*cough*equalizer*cough*

ReignsOfPower · Post by **ReignsOfPower** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 2:45 am

Why go for Long Swords when you can go for Katanas??? They do almost the same ammount of damage as a Two Handed Sword (the crapper ones) and only need one hand to wield! I really hope there is a 4+ or better Katana in ToB.

Anyone heared or seen a 4+ or better Katana?

BilboTheHobbit · Post by **BilboTheHobbit** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 3:50 am

I use long sword and katana with my assassin, works like a charm.

Zaha · Post by **Zaha** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 4:43 am

I think there are no really great long swords in the game, but there are a lot of good ones, which makes the a weapon for my kensai, who fights with two long swords, with ***** as long sword proficiency and *** in two weapon combat. In main hand I have Blade of Roses, Dragonslayer and Daystar, in left hand The Equalizer. (I use the best long sword in left hand because the others have special abilities, and I want to change between them quickly).

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 11:05 am

IMHO, the Equalizer absoulutly sucks.

Mr. Sprinkles · Post by **Mr. Sprinkles** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 3:14 pm

I dualed my swashbuckler to a fighter, so now he has grand mastery in scimitars

moriveth · Post by **moriveth** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 4:26 pm

Originally posted by ReignsOfPower:
<STRONG>Anyone heared or seen a 4+ or better Katana?</STRONG>

Yeah, Hindo's Doom. It's pretty mediocre by ToB standards. Protection from death spells, 10% magic resistance, casts greater restoration 1/day. Yawn. Go for axes, long sword, bastard sword, flail, or hammer instead.

Aerith · Post by **Aerith** » Sun Jun 24, 2001 9:00 pm

yeah i'm with Zaha, i have my kensai duel wielding long swords with the equalizer in the left hand, and daystar, blade of roses(my fav), and dragonslayer in the other. I had to put the equalizer in the left cause for some friggin reason it would switch to the weaker weapons when fights began. Its a strange bug, like Anomen is more proficient with the Flail of Ages but he will use another weapon instead, a weaker mace or something, its very frustrating. Or when i want to use the daystar against the undead but the comp automatically keeps switching it with other weapons. It ticks me off man. Well thats just my two cents