Wizard+cleric in BG

[Annonchinil]

I never beat BG1 because of a bug but I do miss not having played Durlag's Tower or the School or the Bridge. Anyways the combo of spells and Bows made parts of the game really easy.

 

[~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-AIN'T]

One of my favorite playthroughs of BG2 was a soloing wild mage. It's a little hard at first, but with how fast you level up it quickly makes difficulty more normal. Wild mages are really fun at low levels because they get wild magic bursts (or whatever they're called) a lot, which are funny, and can sometimes be really helpful(or hurtful) too. By high levels, they are almost unbeatable as a class, with 6 extra spells of any level that are cast super quickly. Overall you can definitely make up for lack of other party members just with the Nahal's Reckless Dweomer and the robe of Vecna. It was definitely a fun playthrough.

 

[GarfunkeL]

And done. 136 in-game days. The Iron Throne group just before Sarevok was fun encounter, Sarevok himself and his cronies was a letdown. The big dude just charged on me, so I put everybody on him while my summons kept his minions busy for a while. Three Arrows of Fire, two Magic Missiles, couple of good whacks from swords and warhammers and he's dead. And credits! Bwaaa, didn't get to fight the others.

Oh well, time to tune up BG2 and continue the saga.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

And done. 136 in-game days. The Iron Throne group just before Sarevok was fun encounter, Sarevok himself and his cronies was a letdown. The big dude just charged on me, so I put everybody on him while my summons kept his minions busy for a while. Three Arrows of Fire, two Magic Missiles, couple of good whacks from swords and warhammers and he's dead. And credits! Bwaaa, didn't get to fight the others.

Oh well, time to tune up BG2 and continue the saga.

Hey GarfunkeL, I thought you were going to play with the BGT? Any reason you decided not to?

I'm asking because I'm thinking of playing through the whole thing with BGT.

Also, does anyone know how the Big World Project is. It's an install packager for BGT that includes all the best (supposedly) and up-to-date mods - thought I think you can pick and choose which ones to install.

Edit: Remember, I'm the DnD noob - so this is to go along with all the othe DnD based game I'm trying atm :D

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

playing through the whole thing with BGT.

do it

 

[SCO]

Did you kill Tomoko for her sweet armor?

It was fun watching Saverok moaning about it in ToB, all things considered, this should be a mod for BGT.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Of course I did! What a sweet enchanted plate mail it was :D Too bad I only got to use it for one fight.

I chose EasyTutu because my external HD broke and there went my .iso files and I had EasyTuTu already installed. I would've switched to BGT otherwise.

I have no idea about the Big World Project, if they've actually got all the mods working together. Now that I'm playing BG2, I got Ascension, Fixpack, Unfinished Business, Tweakpack, Flirtpack and Banterpack to spice things up. Oh and I think it's the Tweakpack which allows you to enable all romances for everyone all the time. I'm gonna have a menage-a-quatre Should take Anomen along since you can have gay-romance now as well. Oh and Flirtpack allows you to have "one night stands" with party members who don't have "proper romances". Gotta L-O-V-E modders!

 

[coldcrow]

I'd consider D0Questpack or Tactics for a more challenging combat. One of them enables pre-buffed enemy mages and a bit better spellselection. If you choose Tactics, you can also install the vastly improved encounters ... but they are hard.

 

[Qkieu]

I tried tactics on the hardest diff level. That. Was. Hell. Mae var guild with tactics on inane diff level was harder then every fight on unmodded BG2.

 

[SCO]

I have no idea about the Big World Project, if they've actually got all the mods working together. Now that I'm playing BG2, I got Ascension, Fixpack, Unfinished Business, Tweakpack, Flirtpack and Banterpack to spice things up. Oh and I think it's the Tweakpack which allows you to enable all romances for everyone all the time. I'm gonna have a menage-a-quatre Should take Anomen along since you can have gay-romance now as well. Oh and Flirtpack allows you to have "one night stands" with party members who don't have "proper romances". Gotta L-O-V-E modders!

Been there done that. Actually it's not the flirtpack (that is only for the main romances), but the "romantic encounters", both can be installed. Also there are versions of those other main mods for bg 1 too (fix tweak ub and banterpack).

 

[SCO]

Of course I did! What a sweet enchanted plate mail it was :D Too bad I only got to use it for one fight.

That armor is one of the items that have a random probability to carry over in bg2 (that is, if you don't cheat to get them all). Some always carried over (like the pantallons. Others (like the helm of balduran, balduran whatever - i didn't have ToSC, and the Tomoko mail) had a random percentage of being the second item.

The armor is not so hot on BG2 anyway.

 

[GarfunkeL]

I got the swordcoast stratagems for bg2. And already noticed the difference, even in the very first fights around Athkathla.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

I got the swordcoast stratagems for bg2. And already noticed the difference, even in the very first fights around Athkathla.

yes but did you really choose all install options so that they benefit you foes maximally? this is very important. It's cool when you run for your life because Mecrath summoned a Glabrezu (tougher Demons) who has innate uninteruptable magic and you run, run, but he follows you with teleport without error, and you run all around the sewers to drink a healing potion every 6 seconds and zing! 3 beholders spawn (always toughest random encounters) and you run and drink potions, kill a critter and run again, and finally... you land the killing blow on Mekrath after his last protection spells expired. It's also cool if you cast a spell in Athkatla and those stupid cowled wizards appear and try to kill you (only wussies pay the 5000 gold) and the first thing they do is dumping a dragon breath and a dark planetar on you. of course you have to choose the option where enemy caster get fully buffed when combat starts otherwise it's silly. also adjust difficulty to insane. and go with a full party so you don't level too fast. I'm actually doing that right now but I'm already in ToB.

 

[Gragt]

Does that mod makes the game more challenging or turns it into a masochist dream? I do not mind a challenge that forces me to develop new ways to deal with things but I have a thing against obstacles that can mostly be overcome through luck.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Does that mod makes the game more challenging or turns it into a masochist dream? I do not mind a challenge that forces me to develop new ways to deal with things but I have a thing against obstacles that can mostly be overcome through luck.

it makes the game more challenging but it doesn't cheat, so enemies only use what you can use as well with few exceptions like enemy-summoned demons do no longer attack their summoners for instance. you can adjust the difficulty pretty well during install.

 

[Gragt]

Guess I'll give it a spin for my next playthrough.

...

Already two years that I talk about replaying that shit ...

 

[coldcrow]

Do not play that game again. I did the fatal mistake of doing so -"Hey, it's the great BG2"-
I quit after some time out of sheer boredom.

The overepicness, and the ridiculous IE crap turn any good moments (some dungeons, Viconia, Korgan, Edwin) into a brainsucking Find-The-Path® slugfest.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Yeah Ventilator, the first time I fought the vampires on Docks I got attacked Cowled Wizards as well and shit if I didn't get raped. Then the mage-spy that Edwin wants you to kill starts out with Stoneskin and Lesser Sphere of Invulnerability, meaning that only Minsc with his +2 sword could touch him. Then the bastard casted confusion - again, luckily Minsc rolled great save while rest of the party went amok.

The extra banter/flirt-packs are so far on Bioware-level, though it has been so long since I last played this that I don't remember the originals that well - could be I'm still going through them instead.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

What an odd thread.