Do helmets do anything?

Klorox · Post by **Klorox** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:19 pm

I remember reading in the descriptions of helmets in other games, like BG1, BG2, and IWD1, that helmets protect you from critical hits.

Text like this is absent in IWD2 helmets. Do they do anything?

TIA

RTP · Post by **RTP** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:44 pm

Unless they're magical, they do nothing but make your character pretty.

so, that's a no.

Philos · Post by **Philos** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:32 pm

And unfortunately in IWD 2 there aren't very many magical helmets. Definitely not as many as there are in either BG2 or IWD1. It has been a while but IIRC, some of my first party I had finish IWD2 ended up without a magical helmet. Whereas in IWD1 every non-mage and even my gnome fighter/thief had one, and in BG2 I was constantly selling off extras. As RTP said they are "mostly" cosmetic in IWD2.

Klorox · Post by **Klorox** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:55 pm

Well that's kinda crappy.

Thanks!

Tokse · Post by **Tokse** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:07 am

According to the manual, helmets protect you from critical hits in IWD2 as well. Quote from the manual page 131: Helmets: Helmets, made of reinforced leather or metal, cover most of the head, save the face and neck.
Helmets protect against critical hits.

Hope you haven`t dumped all your helmets now

Crucis · Post by **Crucis** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:04 am

Tokse, I tend to think that that helmet description in the IWD2 manual might just be a holdover from IWD1 and, thus, an error.

RTP · Post by **RTP** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:38 pm

Yeah, d&d 3.0 (and 3.5) have different rules about averting critical hits, cause what's the point in having keen weapon (and/or improved critical feat; doesn't stack in 3.5ed) if it can be averted by a simple helmet.

There is some equipment that averts criticals, but it's insanely expensive (in the "pen and paper" game rules, I don't know if there's any in IW2)

Philos · Post by **Philos** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:52 pm

I leave the comments on when I play BG2 IWD 1 & 2. I have seen the "Critical hit averted by helmet" comment in both BG2 and in IWD1, but I do not recall ever seeing it in several plays of IWD2 though. So Crucis is probably right about it being a hold over.

Klorox · Post by **Klorox** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:10 pm

Oh well.

I'll keep helmets for my warriors though... it looks cool!

Philos · Post by **Philos** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:27 pm

I like to use the helmets as well. They DO look cool.