Fighter/Mage

CyberNinja · Post by **CyberNinja** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:55 pm

Hello all, I just have a quick question. I am currently playing an Elven Fighter/Mage, levels 9/10 to be exact, and for some reason the game is not letting me put more than 2 proficiency *'s in long sword. I was under the impression that a fighter was able to get up to 5 *'s, and one of my NPCs, Kitanya, who is also a level 9 Fighter-type (Wizardslayer), is able to allocate 5 *'s. It's no hassle for me to alter the proficiency in Shadowkeeper, I was just curious is a F/M was able to achieve Grandmastery, or is that reserved for the pur fighter classes?

PolyMorphVZ · Post by **PolyMorphVZ** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:11 am

I just created a fighter/mage (I was messing around seeing if i could make a kensai/mage dual class) and when i was using my points, i also could only put 2 points into a weapon skill, so i imagine thats the case

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:46 am

maybe its because its dual class - once you dual it might then only take the second class into consideration when specialising in weapons. just a thought. i wonder if multiclassing would allow you to have 5 in a weapon

stramoski · Post by **stramoski** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:04 am

Thank's right... Multi-Class characters an only put two ** into weapon proficiencies... EoU has a componant to remedy this, however, if it bugs you. It bugs me.

Gaal Dornik · Post by **Gaal Dornik** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:34 am

According to the AD&D BG2 rules no multiclassing class can put more than 2 stars in wep specialisation. Since you are multiclassed, you just cant spend so much time improving weapon skills.

You can however dual class. Nothing stops you from getting 5 stars in fighter class and then switch to wizard.

Rhûn · Post by **Rhûn** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:13 am

I used a multi-class grandmastery patch (ease=of=use mod?). For me, I didn't see why a multiclass fighter shouldn't be able to master a weapon

Celacena · Post by **Celacena** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:49 am

Dualling Banjos

Dual class can do 5 stars in a weapon - I have 5*'d katana and am working my way up to 5* in dual wielding. to have long-sword 5, katana 5 and dual 5 would be rather nifty, but so far I've only got l-s 2, katana 5 and dual 3/4 (can't remember which).

dualled fighters can definitely do the 5 though.
the multi-class limitations were intended to place artificial limitations in order to make specialist fighters a worthwhile class of their own. some other RPG systems do not require election of a specialist 'class' merely putting points into learning skills. there are some philosophical problems with some combination of abilities - for example there are some fighter/cleric classes that despise magic and it would be inconceivable that they should be allowed to learn magic spell-casting, rather ask for divine aid.

when I played pnp, years ago - clerics were able to invoke "divine intervention" - not that it often worked - that disaster-saver is entirely absent from the computer games. it would not be difficult for some haven location to exist - say a ruined temple and where the party could go. if a priest invoked aid, say there was a 1% chance of the whole party being transported to that location and all spell effects (good and bad) immediately nullified.

the computer game is bound by the rules of the game that the developers import - artificial limitations are part of the AD&D game experience and modding away any that somebody doesn't like changes the nature of the game - perhaps to its detriment.

Cake and eating it come to mind...