Most Powerful character, all the way through

Cwell the fine · Post by **Cwell the fine** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:22 am

If you were to play one character, starting from level 1 in Candlekeep all the way through the game, and were going for sheer power, what would you play?

You can play with a party if you want/

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:03 am

Fighter mage thief, or sorcerer, or fighter mage.

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Tue May 02, 2006 12:06 pm

there are so many trhead already about this
your just adding candlekeep

and louis sorcerors ain't in BG1

unles u mod the game

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Tue May 02, 2006 12:22 pm

@Da Venom, to play the game from Candlekeep to Amelissan you may use Tutu, and I'm using it cause it rules too much

Cwell the fine · Post by **Cwell the fine** » Tue May 02, 2006 4:15 pm

[QUOTE=Da_venom]there are so many trhead already about this
your just adding candlekeep

[/QUOTE]Therefore it's a very different topic. Some classes are much less powerful in BG1, and that could definitely be a deciding factor.

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:42 pm

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]@Da Venom, to play the game from Candlekeep to Amelissan you may use Tutu, and I'm using it cause it rules too much

[/QUOTE]

i know
that's why i said unles u mod the game

Coot · Post by **Coot** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:56 am

That all being said, I would probably choose a Stalker. I realize they're not the most popular kit but you shouldn't misunderestimate them.
They can sneak, fight and cast both priest and mage spells (not too much though, that would be really unbalancing). And they're singelclass so they'll level up fast. Stalkers are probably the most versatile kit in the game.

Or maybe a Blade.

DaemonJ · Post by **DaemonJ** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:43 am

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]@Da Venom, to play the game from Candlekeep to Amelissan you may use Tutu, and I'm using it cause it rules too much

[/QUOTE]
Or you could use Trilogy.

pipo · Post by **pipo** » Wed May 03, 2006 5:49 am

ive soloed once with a mage in baldurs gate 1 i and t did pretty good
and ive soloed like hundred times with sorcerer wich is the most powerful,funniest class in baldur`s gate both soa and tob( my opinion)

Thrifalas · Post by **Thrifalas** » Thu May 04, 2006 7:58 am

Fighter/Mage. Maybe kensai->mage since it's theoratically stronger, but annoying to level up. And fighter/mage easily takes you all the way.

Cwell the fine · Post by **Cwell the fine** » Thu May 04, 2006 8:17 am

[QUOTE=Thrifalas]Fighter/Mage. Maybe kensai->mage since it's theoratically stronger, but annoying to level up. And fighter/mage easily takes you all the way.[/QUOTE]
Something I've never understood. IMHO, the Fighter HLA pool is one of the best, and with nerfed Grandmastery especially, a F/M is far superior to a K>M.

(fixed a spelling error)

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:25 am

eh a kensai has the same pool as the fighter so wtf:S?

besides a kensai is an specialized fighter

specialize>normal xD

Cwell the fine · Post by **Cwell the fine** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:36 am

Please learn to type man. Your posts are very difficult and annoying to read.

Do you know how dual classing works?

A K>M only gets Fighter HLAs if you go to 3,000,000 XP in that class, which is a really long way. It's even longer considering you won't get that THAC0 or AC and damage bonuses back unti your mage level passes the Kensai level you decide to leave off at.

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:51 am

hmm, I thought a kensai or fighter didn't matter qua experience and such. Because botch use the same experience table so if u dual class it would be the same, so anyone from the fighter pool dualing to the mage uses the same experience table isn't it?

Nimiety · Post by **Nimiety** » Fri May 05, 2006 4:07 pm

nope - all fighter classes use the fighter xp table, and all mages use the mage xp table.

At 8 million xp, a fighter reaches level 40 and a mage only level 34 (could be off, but it's irrelevant to the main point). A drastic example of this is a druid dualled to fighter. The drui would reach level 12 with only a mere 300K xp, but would need 1.5 million xp (or thereabouts) to reach level 13 as a fighter. Once they do, they regain the druid skills and continue to level against the fighter table.

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Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Fri May 05, 2006 5:01 pm

so it wouldn't matter if you had a kensai>mage or fighter>mage since it's the same fighter xp table

that was my point

seppuku · Post by **seppuku** » Mon May 08, 2006 7:05 am

I always play through the games solo. Perhaps im missing out, but whenever i used a party it ended up as one guy who runs ahead killing everything then the others follow.
Kensai to mage or Fighter to druid works well. You can take the mage up to its maximum level even after giving some experience to the kensai, and since druids use a lot of experience to level up towards the end, sacrificing a couple of levels for the advantage of a fighter is worthwhile. Never liked thieves myself, dont know why.

If youre exploiting glitches a straight kensai is probably the most powerful character going. Its possible to fairly easily put your stats up to 25 each in the first game, then gain 127%(i think) resistance to magic/fire/cold/electricity in SOA. Most importantly, in SOA you can get your base armour class to -26, removing the main problem of the kensai. Without the exploiting, a kensai tends to be very difficult to finish the game with. Pretty certain ive never managed it.

Oh yeah, and hello. I think this is my first post here

Cwell the fine · Post by **Cwell the fine** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:57 pm

[QUOTE=seppuku]
If youre exploiting glitches a straight kensai is probably the most powerful character going. Its possible to fairly easily put your stats up to 25 each in the first game, then gain 127%(i think) resistance to magic/fire/cold/electricity in SOA. Most importantly, in SOA you can get your base armour class to -26, removing the main problem of the kensai. Without the exploiting, a kensai tends to be very difficult to finish the game with. Pretty certain ive never managed it.[/QUOTE]Care to share how?

[QUOTE=seppuku]Oh yeah, and hello. I think this is my first post here[/QUOTE]Hi!

Cwell the fine · Post by **Cwell the fine** » Mon May 08, 2006 4:00 pm

[QUOTE=Da_venom]so it wouldn't matter if you had a kensai>mage or fighter>mage since it's the same fighter xp table

that was my point

[/QUOTE]
But the debate is between a Kensai > Mage vs. a Fighter/Mage, not a K>M vs. a F>M.

seppuku · Post by **seppuku** » Mon May 08, 2006 4:34 pm

[QUOTE=Cwell the fine]Care to share how?

Hi!

[/QUOTE]

Yeah, sure. Im new here so not sure if theres somewhere i cant find for spoilers/cheats etc. Ill pm it to you, since i dont know if i can post it publicly or not.

edit: pm sent. Im used to people turning up on elderscrolls forum boasting about what they've found, generally something very obvious, and it annoys me. So im making an effort not to do the same here. I expect its well known, but if not hopefully the pm makes it clear