level squatting help

Ravenbane · Post by **Ravenbane** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:55 pm

with level squatting, If you have accumulated enough xp to go up more than 1 level, can you just goup 1?
Or failing that, can you go up 1 in two different calsses.
When I try It adds all available levels to the one i select.

Its driving me nuts!!!

ishuman · Post by **ishuman** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:19 pm

That's right- you have to go up all in one class and all at once. You don't get to manipulate it.

-ishuman

Dedigan · Post by **Dedigan** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:14 am

There is a mod for that, available at sorcerer's place (link in the links section).
But unmodded, you have to take all levels in one class.

silverdragon72 · Post by **silverdragon72** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:49 am

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level-squatting would be by far to good if you wouldn't be forced to
take all levels of one type!

So I would consider this mod as cheating...-..at least a little bit

But with good planning you don't need the mod anyway!

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Philos · Post by **Philos** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:00 am

What is the advantage to level squatting?

Pardon my ignorance, how exactly does level squatting help? Are the monsters worth more xp wise if you squat a while at a lower level? What are the good points in the game to do it? I have heard the term before and was vaguely aware of what it was.
Thanks

Dedigan · Post by **Dedigan** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:24 pm

[QUOTE=Philos]Pardon my ignorance, how exactly does level squatting help? Are the monsters worth more xp wise if you squat a while at a lower level? What are the good points in the game to do it? I have heard the term before and was vaguely aware of what it was.
Thanks[/QUOTE]

That's exactly it. You gain more experience for killing monsters with lower experienced parties. For example, the first time I went through the game, I hit Chapter 5 (Dragon's Eye) and got no experience for most of the monsters there. With my current party, I'm in Ch 5 at level 9-11 except my bard who is level 15 and I'm getting 300-500 experience points for each kill. So now I have enough experience to get my whole party to levels 15-17.

My squatting plan (includes possible spoilers in black):
I level up normally until level 7 all around. I level up after I clear the barbarian hoard at the ice fields (before the underdark) to level 12 (on average). Then I don't level again until almost the last chapter (The killing fields part 1 or 2, Saablic Tan is easy with symbol spells available). After that, level normally until HOF mode.

With a 4 character party, I got to levels 19-20 by the end. I haven't finished with 6 characters yet.

There are better plans for squatting, but I don't like to think that deeply into it.

The other good use for squatting is to avoid level penalties. If you have a druid (21)/fighter(4) and you want to add barbarian levels, its easier to take all three levels at the same time and avoid 2 levels worth of experience penalties.