Dual Class and High lvl abilities

Itch · Post by **Itch** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:43 am

Can you take High lvl abilities from the class you dualed out of?

rebel3_6_1 · Post by **rebel3_6_1** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:02 am

I'm pretty sure you can.

rebel3_6_1 · Post by **rebel3_6_1** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:49 am

Nope. I was wrong. I just got a HLA for my Kensai/Mage and I could only choose the mage HLA's. Sorry.

Brynn · Post by **Brynn** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:41 am

Once you dual class to another class, the class you started with is "locked" - all your gained XPs goes to your new class, so the prev one won't improve anymore.

nephtu · Post by **nephtu** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:00 am

It gets worse...

Not only can you not pick HLAs from your inactive class, the inactive class EXP doesn't count toward getting access to HLAs, so a Kensai/Thief who dualled at 1,000,000 EXP will need ~4,000,000 EXP to get access to HLAs. Big downer for dual class munchins in ToB

Brynn · Post by **Brynn** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:41 am

So why not multiclassing instead? As far as I know, that way both chosen classes can be improved simultaneously, right? Is there a restriction which and how many classes you can pick into the multi? E.g. can I choose mage/paladin/thief even if it doesn't make much sense or is it restricted to a certain list offered by the game?

SP101 · Post by **SP101** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:59 am

It is indeed restricted to :

Fighter/Mage
Fighter/Druid
Fighter/Cleric
Fighter/Thief

Mage/Thief
Mage/Cleric

Ranger/Druid

Fighter/Mage/Cleric
Fighter/Mage/Thief

Brynn · Post by **Brynn** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:17 am

Oh

FM or FMT sounds the best, then. And the XPs are distributed evenly between the classes, right?

nephtu · Post by **nephtu** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:34 am

More..

Yes, EXP are distributed evenly.

Ranger/Druid is an error, it's Ranger/Cleric - but they get all divine spells

SP101 · Post by **SP101** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:33 am

Oh.. sry.

In AD&D 2nd Edition, you can be Ranger/Druid, Fighter/Mage/Druid, etc.

Brynn · Post by **Brynn** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:40 am

No matter, I'll be a FM or F/M/T anyway. What's the use of druids, btw? In IWD they have really cool spells like Call Lightining and Tortoise Shell and wall of Moonlight/Fire, but Jaheira's spellbook is not such a big deal, I guess. I always keep her b/c of her quests (and she's an old aquaintance, and lonely without Khalid, and so on, and so forth... She's just grown on me

)

Numinor · Post by **Numinor** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:57 am

Druid's have some really useful spells, for example
Insect Plague (the mage killing spell),
Ironskin (especially for fighter/fruids and cleric/rangers, a Stoneskin that cannot be breached),
Conjure Fire Elemental (on of the best summons in the game),
Nature's Beauty (blinds everything around the druid with no save, even liches & dragons if not stopped by magic resistance),
Greater Elemental Summoning (ToB only, summons one of the Elemental Princes)