What to do with Imoen?
Heya guys, it's my first playthrough of BG in so long I can't even remember the story. I do know, however, that canon Imoen gets dual-classed to a mage, and that a lot of people seem to like that. My question now is, would it be viable for me to do it where I am in the game? I'll give you a rough outline of where I am and hopefully I can get some good answers.
I have:
CHARNAME Wild Mage, level 6
Branwen level 6
Dorn level 6
Minsc level 5
Imoen at level 7 (or I can backtrack a bit and have her at 6 (almost 7)
Baeloth at 6
Is it worth dual-classing Imoen at this point and with my party? I also splurged on shadow armor for Imoen and stole Drizzt's scimitars for her. Am I correct in assuming I would never be able to use those in conjunction with her spells? Also, 7 levels is a long time to try to catch up to. I suppose I would have to go with unarmored + dagger of venom if I wanted to continue using her as a thief in the long run? Any advice? Am I smarter to backtrack to level 6 to dual class her even though it would waste a ton (almost 20,000) of xp?
I have:
CHARNAME Wild Mage, level 6
Branwen level 6
Dorn level 6
Minsc level 5
Imoen at level 7 (or I can backtrack a bit and have her at 6 (almost 7)
Baeloth at 6
Is it worth dual-classing Imoen at this point and with my party? I also splurged on shadow armor for Imoen and stole Drizzt's scimitars for her. Am I correct in assuming I would never be able to use those in conjunction with her spells? Also, 7 levels is a long time to try to catch up to. I suppose I would have to go with unarmored + dagger of venom if I wanted to continue using her as a thief in the long run? Any advice? Am I smarter to backtrack to level 6 to dual class her even though it would waste a ton (almost 20,000) of xp?
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She could use scimitars and still cast spells, but not the Shadow Armor. If you have the money you can buy the Robe of the Good Archmagi from High Hedge and equip it on Imoen. It's armor class 5, same as regular chain mail, but it costs around 30k gold.
I just looked at your current party. If you dual Imoen, you'll have no thief for a long time. I don't know why you would want to dual her when you already have two arcane casters in the party.
On the other hand, maybe if I did kill him I'll give myself the item in Shadowkeeper and just take away 30k gold.
Anyways, thanks for the response, I'm certainly going to look into it more.
Treat her to a nice dinner and buy her roses. Imoen loves roses.
I don't think Imoen would replace Baeloth right with my team, though. He's spell damage, I would focus on Imoen having mage spells as utilities for her thief skills (invisibility, stat buffs, etc.)
Every time i play, the first thing I do is escort imoen to the friendly arm inn, and leave her in safe keeping with khalid and jehera
And....why would you dual to get that? Thieves have an at will invisibility that is actually superior to invisibility (especially combined with boots of speed that let you go stealth pretty much at will, even in small rooms), at will-true sight that is superior to true-sight, at will knock AND find/remove traps that are superior to knock and find traps (and give XP, unlike the spells) that actually removes the traps as well, several uses per day of I-WIN, HAHAHA, and a ridiculously high damage Hello there! attack.
As for Imoen, I'd dual-class her, but don't go into Durlag's Tower without a functioning rogue. There are just too many traps in there. The good news is that there's also about a billion potions of perception, so if you have a few to begin with you don't really have to have a very well made rogue (actually, just stock up on potions of perception, they're awesome). So I'd say drop Minsc temporarily and pick up Coran or Montaron to act as substitute thieves while you run the Tower (getting Imoen back up to 8th is gonna be hard without running it). It might be tricky to get Minsc caught up after that, but since he's not a caster it's not hugely important. Make sure he gets to 7th for that extra half attack and you're golden.