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Friggin Minsc just broke both his 2h'd swords in 1 small battle against hobgoblins

DaelricDaelric Member Posts: 266
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What a clown.

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  • MERLANCEMERLANCE Member Posts: 423
    Get the magic twohanded sword +1, half ogre southeast of Beregost. Or Spiders Bane in the cloakwood. Or The Worlds Edge +3 in Durlags Tower.

    And yeah, weapons break a lot more than I remembered them in BG1 all those years ago.
  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    I remember the very first attempt at BG I had was with my family. We were playing as a paladin. We bought him a 2 handed sword using most of our money. It broke fighting rats...
  • NukeninNukenin Member Posts: 327
    I'm hoping for the sake of those who do every trick in the book to get that katana from Winthrop that BG:EE does some magic other than just checking the breakable flag to see if a weapon is breakable.

    Because every katana, ninjatō, and wakizashi in BG:EE has the breakable flag set, including the enchanted ones.

    (Even if BG:EE uses some magic other than the breakable flag BG1 used, they should still set and clear that flag as appropriate for peace of mind for those of us rummaging through the game data. Harumph!)

    That said, anyone had a katana (or ninjatō or wakizashi) break in BG:EE?

    Katana break? Heart break!
  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    @nukenin I could have bought that thing if I had any use for it. My fighter/thief was able to crack that one chest upstairs with the star sapphire.
  • CoM_SolaufeinCoM_Solaufein Member Posts: 2,606
    Magical weapons FTW.
  • IchigoRXCIchigoRXC Member Posts: 1,001
    I am pretty sure i read somewhere Katana's don't break as they are imported rather than forged locally with poor materials :)
  • SplodSplod Member Posts: 114
    I don't get why you're using two handed swords? Throw a pair of maces on him, he's got 2 slots in mace and 2 weapon fighting from the get go.
  • CutlassJackCutlassJack Member Posts: 493
    @Splod Depends on how early you get him. My minsc came with 2 slots in Two Handed and only 1 in mace.

    And he's certainly not going to share maces with Viconia. He's just ducky with 2 handers.
  • DaelricDaelric Member Posts: 266
    @Splod I've always used 2h swords with Minsc, he's just a beast with them. He always seems to get the crit hit.
  • moopymoopy Member Posts: 938
    I broke my first weapon on the first rat in the candle keep tutorial.

    This did not bode well for the rest of my adventure. I don't think that one made it.
  • TalonfireTalonfire Member Posts: 17
    edited December 2012
    MERLANCE said:


    And yeah, weapons break a lot more than I remembered them in BG1 all those years ago.

    I had the opposite experience, I had to haul a lot of long swords and two handed swords around with me in vanilla BG1 since they were breaking all the time, while I only had one weapon break in my first EE play through, Minsc's starter sword. Maybe I just got lucky in that game, I had previously assumed that they tweaked the weapon breaking mechanic so that weapons broke less frequently.
  • DeucetipherDeucetipher Member Posts: 521
    My berserker broke both scimitars fighting reevor's rats. He then initiated a "tactical flanking maneuver" because I had no weapon left :(.
  • MedullaOblongataMedullaOblongata Member Posts: 434
    Hmm... Darts are handy "fire and forget" weapons, perhaps made of the same tainted metal. Since they are "fire and forget", this doesn't matter.

    Two-Handed swords break. This means...

    You need to tell Minsc to use Two-Handed swords as dart weapons!

    "But Medulla, Minsc doesn't have prof in darts!"

    Nonsense! A drunken night at a tavern will fix that! :P
  • waardeniuswaardenius Member Posts: 58
    Two handed darts. Mind blown.
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