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dilemma!! Imoen Vs Nalia

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Post by Baassie »

I would say keep Nalia. I just had to make the choice as well and I choose Nalia, just because she has all my good spells and is at a much higher level than Imoen (AND because if I choose Imoen I would've had to leave Nalia there to rot). I don't know what this is going to mean for my plotline... probably nothing. Two things desturb me...
1. Why take Imoen away from me at the beginning of the game and give here back at the end, just to play with here for a few more scenes, and
2. Should I put Imoen in my party and let her learn all my left over spells (so my party will gain exp points) and then kick her out again?

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Post by Black Hand »

Yes, learning left over spells for exp definitely does pay off!
Although I kept both Nalia and Imoen, there were still spells left which I gave to Aerie and Jan (I didn't meet Edwin, 'cause my Paladin refused the Mea'var quest).
Should give you about 100-500K experience.
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Only the mage in question gets the xp for learning spells. Like thieves when they open a lock / disarm a trap.
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Post by Black Hand »

Are you sure? I remember checking this one time, and Anomen got 2.5K EP after Nalia learned a couple of spells.
But that was quite early in the game, maybe I'm just wrong.
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I'm pretty sure. It sez so in the manual.

In that room of many doors my thief earns a shed load of xp all to himself.

But don't believe everything your read. Image

'Specially when I write it.
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Post by Wookie »

Gruntboy

I'm pretty sure trap and spell learning XP is spread throughout the party, because I've had Aerie and Nalia write spells into their spell book, and my F/T leveled up.

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Hmm... that should not be the case.

How could they lie to us? Maybe it is shared. Maybe the spellcaster gets most but not all?

I'm still pretty sure this is not the case - I had my F/T roaring ahead of other is xp with his trap dismantling/lock picking?

Maybe the black lotus is going to my head...

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Post by Black Hand »

Btw, wouldn't the mage chars get WAY more EP?
When Imoen re-joined my party she was about 600K behind the other party members. By now she has learned a cartload of high-level spells, but is still 2 levels behind.
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Post by Doltan »

I don't know about the thief experience, but it seems to me that the spell experience was evenly distributed. I never trust the Manual (when people post that you should "read your Manual" I get really annoyed because it is much better to trust these boards).
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Post by Gruntboy »

Anatres, here it is you lazt so-and-so Image

Thanx for the tip.
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Post by Xandax »

In my games, both thief and mage XP (spells scriping, trapdisarming etc) was divided like combat XP - evenly.
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