Awesome party combos!
A thread for discussing your favorite parties ever made in BG/BG2.
My personal favorite for BG was:
Elven Fighter- +++++ in long bows, ++ in longswords
Garrick- secondary caster, used crossbows to great effect
Quayle- secondary caster, sling user
Kivan (obviously)- also used long bows
Coran (obviously)- long bows. What else?
Edwin- casting god
This party was nearly unstoppable. The moment an enemy was sighted, the archers in the party would target the most powerful enemy, and the casters would hold them in place with web, stinking cloud, hold person. If there were getting swarmed, the casters could drop multiple fireballs in a single turn, effectively eliminating the whole group. Garrick was way more useful than people give him credit for. Not only did he fill the role of a caster quite well, he was an archery king. Think about it- heavy crossbow of accuracy, bracers of archery, bolts of lightning. Ouch.
Now for my BG2 party-
Human Barbarian- nigh-unkillable tank, melee damage dealer
Keldorn- because Inquisitors make the hardest fights into walks in the park.
Jahiera- summoner, healer, mage-disabler, back-up tank.
Jan Jansen- thief, comic relief, back-up mage
Edwin- casting god
Imoen- extra spell-death
Barbarian is such a highly underestimated class. It can become almost completely immune from physical damage, and with the right items be highly resistant to elemental damage as well as mind-affecting spells.
Keldorn was the mage killer, casting a quick dispel before charname chunked all mages in a rage. Needs items to make him truly shine in combat, but worth it for his abilites.
Jahiera- fighter/druids rock. Gave her belm for the extra attack, and two weapon fighting, she did quite well in combat. But her more important role was to ambush powerful parties. Casting glitterdust, and with the use of the cloak of non-detection as well as the spell, it was possible to set up fights perfectly. Here's how most scenarios played out:
Let the invisible, non-detectable people (including Keldorn) set themselves up behind a mage. Let a non-invisible summon appear within the group. Mages contingencies go up, Keldorn takes them right down. Barbarian rages, kills all. With the help of magical spelldeath of course :P
For the harder fights where that wasn't possible, the Barbarian led the group, taking all the damage, while Keldorn and Jaheria worked on taking down the priests/mages and my own mages made good use of greater malision/disabling and area effect spells.
My personal favorite for BG was:
Elven Fighter- +++++ in long bows, ++ in longswords
Garrick- secondary caster, used crossbows to great effect
Quayle- secondary caster, sling user
Kivan (obviously)- also used long bows
Coran (obviously)- long bows. What else?
Edwin- casting god
This party was nearly unstoppable. The moment an enemy was sighted, the archers in the party would target the most powerful enemy, and the casters would hold them in place with web, stinking cloud, hold person. If there were getting swarmed, the casters could drop multiple fireballs in a single turn, effectively eliminating the whole group. Garrick was way more useful than people give him credit for. Not only did he fill the role of a caster quite well, he was an archery king. Think about it- heavy crossbow of accuracy, bracers of archery, bolts of lightning. Ouch.
Now for my BG2 party-
Human Barbarian- nigh-unkillable tank, melee damage dealer
Keldorn- because Inquisitors make the hardest fights into walks in the park.
Jahiera- summoner, healer, mage-disabler, back-up tank.
Jan Jansen- thief, comic relief, back-up mage
Edwin- casting god
Imoen- extra spell-death
Barbarian is such a highly underestimated class. It can become almost completely immune from physical damage, and with the right items be highly resistant to elemental damage as well as mind-affecting spells.
Keldorn was the mage killer, casting a quick dispel before charname chunked all mages in a rage. Needs items to make him truly shine in combat, but worth it for his abilites.
Jahiera- fighter/druids rock. Gave her belm for the extra attack, and two weapon fighting, she did quite well in combat. But her more important role was to ambush powerful parties. Casting glitterdust, and with the use of the cloak of non-detection as well as the spell, it was possible to set up fights perfectly. Here's how most scenarios played out:
Let the invisible, non-detectable people (including Keldorn) set themselves up behind a mage. Let a non-invisible summon appear within the group. Mages contingencies go up, Keldorn takes them right down. Barbarian rages, kills all. With the help of magical spelldeath of course :P
For the harder fights where that wasn't possible, the Barbarian led the group, taking all the damage, while Keldorn and Jaheria worked on taking down the priests/mages and my own mages made good use of greater malision/disabling and area effect spells.
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As for myself, I'd much rather try out a different assortment of characters each time out than always take the more popular fan favorites every time.
So I can't really say that I have a favorite crew. With 29 NPCs now there's a whole bunch of combos to try, that's for sure!
Minsc - Not much of a fighter/tanker, I tolerate him largely for the entertainment value.
kiban - Ranged weapon is a must in BG for me.
Dynaheir - I prefer good party so no edwina.
I still looking for good priest dude though not much of need for it.
@damedog I want to try yours since it looks cool enough