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Dual-classing from Thief - Losing all Thief abilities!

claudiusclaudius Member Posts: 82
edited November 2013 in Fixed
I built imoen up to 100 pickpocket at 4th level. Then I dualed to mage and eventually I hit level 5 mage. She should have gotten her thief skills back. She does have them, but no longer has 100 pickpocket it is down to 25. I tried with the 4th update.
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  • doomdoomdoomdoomdoomdoom Member Posts: 89
    Same happened to my PC.
    First class - swashbuckler L6. Locks & Traps at 100 both.
    Dual class to fighter.
    Upon regaining first class at L7, noticed all thief skills reset to L1 values + 5% (from tome of dexterity, which I used at some point after dual classing but before fighter L7).
  • MichailMichail Member Posts: 196
    edited December 2012
    You should move this to the Bug section.
    EDIT: sorry, this IS the BG:EE subsection of the bug section. My mistake.
    Post edited by Michail on
  • claudiusclaudius Member Posts: 82
    doom, yeah this sucks. Not sure why I haven't heard more with this. Shadowkeeper would fix this, but the installation page says you can screw up your whole computer if you screw up the steps they give.
  • bigdogchrisbigdogchris Member Posts: 1,336
    When you dual-class, don't you have to exceed your own level by 1 in order to gain access to it's abilities?
  • WooWoo Member Posts: 135
    bigdogchris said:

    When you dual-class, don't you have to exceed your own level by 1 in order to gain access to it's abilities?

    Yes.

  • claudiusclaudius Member Posts: 82
    Yes, but I did exceed the level. Level 5 mage level 4 thief and lost the points I spent on pick pocket. I need a bold font so that this doesn't get dreailed to 'not an issue'
  • claudiusclaudius Member Posts: 82
    Yes my 2nd class is HIGHER level than rogue. I have a 5th level mage/ 4th level rogue. I got my rogue skills back but the points I invested going to 4th level are lost. I spent all of my points on pick pocket getting to 100 and now that I have exceeded rogue levels 5/4 I have thieves skills but the pick pocket reverted to the starting value of 25.

    So that's a bug report.

    ***********But the second part justifying this post is a question of if anyone has gotten dual classed rogues to 'get back' the invested points?**********

    *****Because if I just had an odd result I might export/import and try again.********

    There is shadowkeeper but I am not familiar with computers and the thread mentioned that some of the stuff you had to mess around with could damage your whole computer if you don't know what you are doing.


    So any dual rogue to x (usually x would be mage) who DID get their thieves skills back? !!!!!!!!!
  • ArcticArctic Member Posts: 76
    it works fine to me
  • tommytommy Member Posts: 401
    have you all dualclass before the latest patch?

    @arctic which dualclass and which levels you have used?
  • ArcticArctic Member Posts: 76
    @tommy dualed to mage , at diferent levels, always work fine for me , cheating the xp for testing.
  • tommytommy Member Posts: 401
    maybe the others have dualclass before the latest patch.
    I belive it happends in the moment when dualclassing and not in the moment when reaching a higher level in the second class
  • bayloxbaylox Member Posts: 2
    I have this problem too. Started as a thief, went up to level 6 and then dual-classed to regular fighter. Just achieved level 7 with the fighter class and found that I got my thief abilities back, but at "starting" values, 15-30. I did get the Set Snare ability back.
    Started as thief just when the game released and leveled up now to 7, with the latest patch installed. I have a save-game before clicking the level up-button to reach level 7.

    I have also dual-classed Imoen to a mage (only level 2 thief) and that seems to have worked as expected.
  • claudiusclaudius Member Posts: 82
    Yeah, I'm not a computers person myself and I don't understand why sometimes and for some people they get the 'dual class thief bug' and others who have downloaded the same files to their computer get something different. That sounds like a possible hypothesis on the patch. I started playing when the 4th patch came out.
  • doomdoomdoomdoomdoomdoom Member Posts: 89
    edited December 2012
    Decided to do some testing in v1.0.2011.

    The bug seems to happen if you go into level up window when your second class gets high enough to regain abilities from your first class, but then escape out of it (for example trying to get better HP roll or for other reason). Going into level up the first time all thief skill points are intact, but if you escape it and go into level up again, they are deleted.

    Edit: actually, skill points get stripped if you escape out of ANY second class level up window before regaining the inactive class, not just the last one.
    Post edited by doomdoomdoom on
  • claudiusclaudius Member Posts: 82
    Awesome information!!!
  • NathanNathan Member Posts: 1,007
    @doomdoomdoom perfect, thank you for that - this will help us fix this pronto.
  • bayloxbaylox Member Posts: 2
    As a side-comment, I did not press ESC at any point and still didn't get the skill points back.
  • claudiusclaudius Member Posts: 82
    I wasn't sure ever if all the previous level ups I had gotten lucky so I kept checking that they got max HP. Not to discount baylox's experience, I am just adding my own data to the pile.
  • trinittrinit Member Posts: 705
    current behaviour:

    i dual classed thief to cleric and when reactivating thief class again, the thief abilities seem to be restarted to their level 1 values (only dexterity bonus applies). other abilities act as expected (set snare, bonus to AC, to hit and thac0 from swashbuckler).

    expected behaviour:

    when regaining thief abilities, the game should remember previous allocation of thief points.


    extra information:
    i tested previous save games- it looks like equipment is not a problem, but this started to happen in durlag tower area before entering level one. going to previous areas does not help. when cheating with experience on prior save- games, everything seems to be working ok, no matter if i jump from level 6-8 or level steady 6-7-8. also, party members do not seem to influence the level up process.
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