Favourite Class

Elemental ZOOT · Post by **Elemental ZOOT** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 2:08 am

Please no Kensai Sorcerror cr@p. No hacks.

Mine is the Beserker/Mage BECAUSE if u get 5***** in the Profiency you want youre all sweet. THen you export him and get him 2 cast find familar and keep exporting him ETC. He gets so much HP.

Plus gains heaps of HP

unrelated · Post by **unrelated** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 5:38 am

Casting familiars and exporting is a little bit cheap if you ask me. besides, any character can do that if you know the potion/scroll replacement "trick".

I prefer a well-built Assassin which has the nice poison weapon ability and can make a 7x backstab hit at higher levels. The Use any Item HLA should make him very powerful when he casts scrolls of improved invisibility or mislead. Until he can choose that HLA he of course has to make use of potions and rings of invisibility.
The dagger of the Star is also a very nice weapon for this since it can grant free invisibility after your backstab kicked in. Of course you are required to set him up with proper amounts of THAC0 modifiers for his backstab, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

When you are not backstabbing you are going to coat your weapon in poison and shoot arrows or bolts.... Using Gesen Bow for instance with normal arrows or enchanted arrows (depends on the foe protections) or maybe with a Tuigan bow you can do quite some damage. Spellcasters are not much of a problem anymore when the poison kicks in and if you chose to backstab spellcasters with it... even better.

The weapon of choice can be anything.
As mentioned, the dagger of the star is very useful, but low on damage. There are a bunch of long swords, katanas and short swords that do much more damage and are equally useful.

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 5:54 am

Depends on whom I plan to take, though I like:

Human fighter dual to Mage (I like using short bow and long sword)

Elven fighter/thief (to cover the lack of good thief)

Half-elven mage/cleric I imported from BG1

Dwarven cleric/thief (to cover the lack of good thief and the lack of quieter clerics in the game

)

unrelated · Post by **unrelated** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 6:11 am

Oh yes, I also like Tiax clones.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 9:59 am

My favorite class...? Simply this: a wild mage. And you accept whatever variables occur in his or her casting, without returning to a previous saved game, ever. It's fun, it's challenging, and it's always different everytime you play.

unrelated · Post by **unrelated** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 10:04 am

I've seen funny things with the wild mage in several romances. One of the wild surges had just turned me into a woman when Viconia invited me for some night-time fun.
Fantasies, fantasies... what went on that night...

trollkarlsgubbe · Post by **trollkarlsgubbe** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:33 pm

I've seen funny things with the wild mage in several romances. One of the wild surges had just turned me into a woman when Viconia invited me for some night-time fun.

!!!

I have never played anything else than a pure mage, no specialists because I like to able to know every single spell. Why even risk to get your clothes bloody in a mele when you blast anything out of existance from afar.

bruciarsi · Post by **bruciarsi** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:16 pm

well im getting close to finishing this game for the first time so my only choise really for favourite class is the ranger kit Archer. No real problems with it except not being able to hurt a few creatures but thats what i have other team mates for. They do the hacking and i pick off the strays.

Elemental ZOOT · Post by **Elemental ZOOT** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:56 pm

Originally posted by Minerva
Depends on whom I plan to take, though I like:

Human fighter dual to Mage (I like using short bow and long sword)

Elven fighter/thief (to cover the lack of good thief)

Half-elven mage/cleric I imported from BG1

Dwarven cleric/thief (to cover the lack of good thief and the lack of quieter clerics in the game )

Dwarves can't be cleric/thiefs. Only Fighter,Cleric,Thief,Barbarian,F/T,F/C
Tiax IS a gnome

unrelated · Post by **unrelated** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:51 am

Too bad Tiax can't join you for very long. He is still the best evil NPC I've ever shared time with...

Tobias · Post by **Tobias** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 7:42 am

Originally posted by Elemental ZOOT
Please no Kensai Sorcerror cr@p. No hacks.

Mine is the Beserker/Mage BECAUSE if u get 5***** in the Profiency you want youre all sweet. THen you export him and get him 2 cast find familar and keep exporting him ETC. He gets so much HP.

Plus gains heaps of HP

Mine would have to be the Paladin because: of Carsomyer; he can be a party all on his lonesome when something wipes out the rest of your party; his immunities; his spell ability; the fact that being a lawful good then turning into the slayer is ironic. Also the fact that if your alignment isn't right you can become very humble very quickly.

damoncavalier · Post by **damoncavalier** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:50 pm

hello everyone.i have been lurking this site for a long time and not sure why i never posted.(2 yrs)any way-have to say paladins myself,especially cavaliers(hence my name)gotta love all the immunities,and the chivaly and honor stuff sure gets you a long way in the game.

FilipeTeles · Post by **FilipeTeles** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 4:13 pm

always pure mage.tehy are very powerful since u can cast every spell and the staff of the magi is the best weapon,its godly.i just have finished my solo mage in bg2 and iam doing a solo mage in bg1.It's a lot dificult because its my first char in bg1 but its great.
Filipe the Grey Great Mage....

LoreKeeper · Post by **LoreKeeper** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:27 am

First, greetings to everyone!
Then, to relate to the topic, my favorite class is definitely the Mage - in all shapes and sizes. Pure mage, specialist, wild mage. Second is the Sorcerer, sacrificing versatility for power. Even in PnP they're my favorite classes...

nephtu · Post by **nephtu** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 10:27 am

MY Fave..

Shadowknight

However, if we restrict it to orthodox D&D classes per BGII, I'd have to say Fighter/Cleric multiclass for fun, Sorceror for pure destructive power. Every class (except, maybe, single class druids and the Ranger beastlord kit) has its merits, and so de gustibus non disputandum est.

NB for them as don't know, Shadowknight is a mandatory evil plate-armor wearing melee class, with moderate arcane spellcasting abilities (from Everquest).

Good gaming!

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 2:30 pm

An ARcheR all the way!!

I always take him along, made my own equipment for him and now know exactly how to take opponents out with him.

The only downside is his weakness against magic, but he can overcome that...

So my vote will go to an ARcheR (but I guess that wasnt a suprise to some

)

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 2:55 pm

Honestly, folks, my favorite class/kit has to be the Cavalier. It's not as much about Carsomyr, but because of the immunity to fear and poison making me worry more about less common (and more dangerous) status ailments, such as level drain, petrification (an issue, but not SEVERE, due to a Paladin's saving throws), and status draining. My Cavalier's not invincible, but he's also not apt to be susceptible to everything thrown at him. That's cool in my book.

Other interesting classes/kits (to me) include, Archers, Wild Mages (I might really try that one time in the future), Gnome Illusionists (either vanilla or multi-classed to thief or cleric), and Skalds.

bruciarsi · Post by **bruciarsi** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 4:41 pm

Ive been giving some thought as to my next character and i mite go with either a priest or theif. Anyone recogmend a good kit for either.

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:07 pm

actually am very fond of fighter mage multi...

quite powerful, and lots of fun...

better, imho than fighter cleric, because the fighter cleric is limited in weapons selection, and a fighter mage is better at killing magic using enemies...

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:23 pm

I totally agree with fable, playing a wildmage without reloads for bad effects is one of the most fun characters to play.

But i also have some very good swashbuckler experiences