who gets boots of speed?

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Pecca

They're mine and mine alone! My preciousss.

zur312

depending on party
if small party with archer than archer

if large party - tank for being crazy with pathfinding ai

Mortianna

@typo_tilly I do the same thing. I usually give the boots to my main melee NPC (usually Kagain with the Gauntlets of Dexterity) and then put them on my thief when looting or scouting.

lunar

Magical armor and boots change their shape and size to suit the wearer :-) I give them to party tank as well, Khalid now has it, with that 19 str belt, full plate, helmet of defense, and varscona he is pretty solid.

elminster

Give them to Garrick or Khalid. That way if they run away they do so quickly

Dragonspear

Almost always my scout/archer who usually is the same person

Tresset

I usually give them to my Charname. I also give them to Aerie a lot in BG2 since she becomes INCREDIBLY useful (especially later on) having almost every spell in the game. Not to mention with the robe of Vecna and the Amulet of Power she can churn them out really fast. Run into the fray with a heal spell cast really quick and run back out before she dies. Dart about combat dispensing spells as needed. She is really awesome with boots of speed.

Mathmick

I give Boots to Melee characters, then ranged characters, followed by casters. Melee first simply because of how much damage you gain at the start of combat by gaining attack time over walking time.

I'll occasionally move them over from melee to ranged if they are getting engaged on by melee enemies.

Cactus

Either a melee character or a thief with good backstab abilities, especially if the thief i Charname. Hit and run! This way you can backstab though an entire hostile party without a scratch.

Dragonspear

@Cactus

I can't wait to get them on my assassin pc. I plan on giggling by the end of ToB

SCARY_WIZARD

I tend to give them to my healer. RUN RUN RUN TO THE INJURED~

Ville

Cleric or paladin. Sometimes I want to clear a dungeon on sunday and I hate to wait up.

SCARY_WIZARD

Ville said:

Cleric or retribution paladin. Sometimes I want to clear a dungeon on sunday and I hate to wait up.

FIXED THAT FOR YOU
Because Pursuit of Justice? Get it? ? ...brb, stealing your idea.

ZanathKariashi

Generally a thief....the extra speed MASSIVELY increases their combat power by making full str BS much easier to pull off and much more frequently. A fighter gains a little bit of benefit, but not nearly as much as a thief does.

ogreb

My gnome mage killer. CHARNAME.

I fire off a spell and run in there to finish the job before they can fire back.
Being almost immune to spells, mages have no chance.
Last time a spell worked on me was Sils Dire Charm....since then...nothing.
His AC is lower then any of my fighters at this time...and his THACO is the same a Khalieds.
Mages beware !

Who knew that Gnomes could be so totally bad A$$ ?

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sarevok57

did you know you can get 2 pairs of boots of speed in bgee? right arm (:

ajwz

Always an armoured melee character. I'm not looking for a rasaad 2.0

SCARY_WIZARD

sarevok57 said:

did you know you can get 2 pairs of boots of speed in bgee? right arm (:

THPOILERTH!

One pair is from the assassins outside of the Cloakwood Mine. PROBABLY HARDER THAN DAVAEORN LOL
The other pair is from those two *******s that poison you in Baldur's Gate.

SpaceInvader

sarevok57 said:

did you know you can get 2 pairs of boots of speed in bgee? right arm (:

In BGT too.
Btw, when I play with a party I tend to give them to 2 archers. So they can play ping-pong with the enemy.

atcDave

I always give them to my best warrior. It lets me control battles by getting the character I want, forcing melee with the opponent I want.

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the_spyder

Basically if I have someone that is good at HTH, I want them to be in close and personal without having to spend too much time closing distance.

OneAngryMushroom

I give the boots to my main tank and damage dealer. I usually have him with crazy high defense so he can just fly into melee while distracting hostiles and giving other characters to catch up and start pelting with arrows, and if he takes too much damage then he can beat an expedient retreat

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the_spyder said:

Basically if I have someone that is good at HTH, I want them to be in close and personal without having to spend too much time closing distance.

Thisthisthis. A lot can happen in that time, especially in a computer game such as this!

Durenas

SCARY_WIZARD said:

Ville said:

Cleric or retribution paladin. Sometimes I want to clear a dungeon on sunday and I hate to wait up.

FIXED THAT FOR YOU
Because Pursuit of Justice? Get it? ? ...brb, stealing your idea.

PoJ doesn't stack with run speed buffs from items.

blackchimes

No such problems if playing solo.

Heindrich

I got a noobie question about those boots actually... do they just provide a movement bonus, or do they count as a haste spell, which increases attacks as well as movement? Maybe I didn't pay attention in BG EE and it was always there, but in BG 2 I noticed that when equipped, Charname gets a haste symbol on his portrait...

Obviously if the boots count as a permanent haste spell, then they are even better than I thought, and I'd imagine you'd make the most of them on a melee character. If they were only for movement, then maybe a scout?

blackchimes

It's just movement, but they're still very useful, both for melee classes(i.e. just running past the enemy fighters and killing that mage before they catch up with you) and ranged classes(kiting).

SCARY_WIZARD

I just want to say that Drizzt Do'Urden's use of bracers of blinding strike as boots of speed is awesome.