Solo divine caster viable?

ReadingRambo

Hey all, every run I've had I've always had at least two divine casters, typically jaheira and a cleric. This run I'm planning on running a ranger cleric as I never have before. I want to use some different npcs, how challenging would it be being the only divine caster? I most likely will have keldorn in bg 2 to cover dispelling

CaptRory

Eh~ It wouldn't be bad in the first game. You'd probably wanna grab someone else to help in the second game 'cause you're Multiclass/Dual Class. But it wouldn't be necessary.

moopy

I normally have 0 divine casters so...

Plus as a ranger / cleric you will have access to both druid and cleric spells one one character. With a high wisdom and the ring from Mulhey, you will basically already be both a druid and a cleric wrapped into one that also hits things and has fighter thac0 and health.

Itstucktwice

Ranger/Cleric is plenty.

DinsdalePiranha

ranger/cleric is awesomesauce.

on lower difficulties, it's pretty solid, on hard and insane... ehh. either you drown yourself in potions, or rest buttloads, because your healing just won't be enough.

and in BG2, with all the regen items strewn about, you won't even look at another cleric, ever.

Pantalion

In any solo variant, Ranged combat is king. The R/C with a high Strength and slings is a perfectly viable ranged combatant and able to kite almost every enemy in the game. They also get summons, so played right, they'll never even need to step into the front lines.

Finally, they get Sanctuary, Sanctuary resting is amazing for a solo character, since you never risk being attacked by wandering monsters, whilst Sanctuary itself allows you to open containers and doors whilst remaining "invisible", and does so for far longer than Improved Invisibility does (and combines very nicely with Drizzt's Elven Chain based Stealthing for a Belt and Braces approach).

In my opinion, R/C is one of the best Soloers in the game, I slapped up an early game suggested activity guide here: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/206948

ZanathKariashi

Well considering a single class cleric can solo the whole saga, and is one of the easier classes to do it with without rest abuse...pretty viable. Their only real weakness is a lack of extra base attacks...they're slower at killing, especially groups, then a part warrior is, but so tough it doesn't really matter. And if you make use of spells like harm, you can potentially drop some enemies faster then a warrior ever could.

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