Profitable kills for an evil party?

sleeperhold

Balancing your reputation is necessary when playing with an evil party. I would like you to list some characters worth killing in terms of exp and items, since obliterating commoners and tavern patrons only angers the townsfolk. Killing Drizzt for instance, has somewhat become an institution by now. I personally like to kill Firebead Elvenhair at his Beregost home early on in the game for 2700 exp and -5rep. He also has a scroll case in BGEE.

MERLANCE

Kill Elminster. 26000 xp and a reputation hit.

elminster

MERLANCE said:

Kill Elminster. 26000 xp and a reputation hit.

*summons cow*, *change chicken:MERLANCE*

Disappears into cloud of greyish-black smoke.

ajwz

Well, gorion is technically a profitable kill...

Jalily

Shandalar: 26,000 xp and tons of loot, including a Robe of the Neutral Archmagi.

The_Cheeseman

Yeah, and Shandalar goes down like a pansy if you confuse him.

sleeperhold

nice nice! I like what I'm seeing! Thanks folks!

The_Cheeseman

ajwz said:

Well, gorion is technically a profitable kill...

You just totally ninja-looted while Sarevok was off getting his buddies rezzed.

escagirluk

I am keeping this thread in mind for when I need to cut down my rep.

Riolathel

Killing Elminster is so cheese-fest though

AHF

Killing the priest and sirens at the temple east of Beregost is 13,000 XP and no hit to reputation.

Quartz

AHF said:

Killing the priest and sirens at the temple east of Beregost is 13,000 XP and no hit to reputation.

Why does everyone say this, I always got rep hits for trying this in BG Vanilla AND BG:EE. No hit for the Sirenes but Keldath is a huge rep hit.

AHF

Quartz said:

AHF said:

Killing the priest and sirens at the temple east of Beregost is 13,000 XP and no hit to reputation.

Why does everyone say this, I always got rep hits for trying this in BG Vanilla AND BG:EE. No hit for the Sirenes but Keldath is a huge rep hit.

I just did this 5 minutes ago and did it again after seeing this post to confirm.

14 rep when I entered the Temple, 14 rep after I removed the potion of healing and elixer of health from Keldath's body.

This is vanilla BG:EE.

Quartz

@AHF Well thank you then. I guess my memory is faulty on BG:EE. That's fine with me, now I can do this sometime.

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Oh, it's worth mentioning that you can kill all the priestesses in the WaterQueen House with no rep hit, and the high priestess is worth 6k I think? This is what people do after giving her the Wisdom Tome so they can get it back :P

AHF

Quartz said:

@AHF Well thank you then. I guess my memory is faulty on BG:EE. That's fine with me, now I can do this sometime.

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Oh, it's worth mentioning that you can kill all the priestesses in the WaterQueen House with no rep hit, and the high priestess is worth 6k I think? This is what people do after giving her the Wisdom Tome so they can get it back :P

I always do this with good or evil parties. I don't trust her so I get the cure for the geas and then tell her I don't have the tome. She attacks and you take her out and keep the tome. If I actually give it to her, how do I know she won't use it real quickly?