Experiences with cleric/thief

Coot · Post by **Coot** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:47 am

I plan to go through the entire series again, from Bg to ToB. Of course, I would like to have a game experience that's different from my other ones as much as possible, so I was thinking about playing, or even soloing, a Cleric/Thief.

One disadvantage seems to be that the thieving button is hidden behind the special abilities button. Also, like the F/M/T, there is only one weapon slot. For a F/M/T that wouldn't be much of a problem but for a C/T it would be, because you won't melee a lot but you would like to backstab. That means you'd have to switch weapons on a regular basis.
On the other hand, you would have a char with a lot of abilities, but he would never be an uberchar because he lacks offensive power.

I did some searching on this board but the C/T isn't mentioned all that much. Did anyone ever take a C/T through an entire game? Or the series? Is there a way to make cleric- and thievingabilities complement eachother? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Echon · Post by **Echon** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:06 am

A cleric/thief is limited to the weapons a cleric can choose and none of these can be used for backstabbing so you will not be doing that an awful lot anyway.

-Echon

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:06 am

I've took the character trough BG2 and played one in BG1, i have to say that the 1 weapon slot in BG1 is very annoying, and i think it will be a VERY hard soloing character (although summons are nice).
I also find it an hard roleplay character but thats just me.

VonDondu · Post by **VonDondu** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:49 am

[QUOTE=Echon]A cleric/thief is limited to the weapons a cleric can choose and none of these can be used for backstabbing so you will not be doing that an awful lot anyway.[/QUOTE]
I never use anything but swords and missile weapons when I play a Thief, but are you sure you can't backstab with a club or a quarterstaff? I seem to recall hearing great things about the Staff of Striking.

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:08 am

You can backstab with any melee waepon a thief can use (so this includes stafes and clubs.
The staff of striking is the BEST backstab weapon (most damage) a thief can use in both BG1 and BG2.

lompo · Post by **lompo** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:53 am

Before you put your hands on the staff of the Ram in ToB.

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:37 am

That's funny, because I'm contemplating about the same issue.

I've just downloaded tutu and fixes and decided to go through the whole series again. I also plan to do this with a party of no more than 3 characters. I guess I will remove the XP cap in order to balance the small number of party members. We'll see how that affects the overall game balance.

Now my question is: Will I play C/T, F/M/C or F/C?

DC F/C
An old favorite class of mine (my all time favorite class is of course MC F/T, but Coran is very good already and I will go through BG1 first). An old, harmless man with a staff, dualed somewhere at very high level. On the other hand, DC means long term investment and I'm in for immediate fun at the moment.

MC C/T
Very interesting, played it before in BG2, but what sets me up is that gnomes have a max WIS of 17 for a start. On the other hand, there are three WIS tomes to have. And gnomes are cool, aren't they?

MC F/M/C
Wellllll ... , in theory, this one is a real killer at high levels (but would only reach a capped level of 6/6/7 in TotSC, IIRC). I never liked half elves, but I would compromise in this case. Maybe with Coran as the only other party member or with him and an additional tank in case things get too ugly? I guess I'll give this one a shot