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What is your favorite (most played) class in vanilla BG1?

WinthalWinthal Member Posts: 366
edited July 2012 in Archive (General Discussion)
  1. What is your favorite (most played) class in vanilla BG1?335 votes
    1. Fighter
      17.31%
    2. Paladin
      12.24%
    3. Ranger
      11.64%
    4. Thief
        8.66%
    5. Mage/Specialist mage
      20.90%
    6. Cleric
        3.28%
    7. Druid
        1.49%
    8. Bard
        4.78%
    9. Multi Class combo
      14.33%
    10. Dual Class combo
        5.37%
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  • MillardkillmooreMillardkillmoore Member Posts: 150
    I almost always feel like playing a Paladin. Playing a fantasy game as the knight-in-shining-armor good guy just feels the most right.
  • WinthalWinthal Member Posts: 366
    @Millardkillmoore Paladins are too rigid and "black and white" for my tastes, I've been warming up to them a bit more lately tho playing more of a dark/tortured hero archetype, it works pretty well and if you mess up too much you become fallen which suits me fine in flavor terms :)

    Hehe also once, for laughs, I created a paladin, used shadow keeper to change his appearance to the robed monks of candlekeep except with grey colored robes, and modded in Xan's moonblade, making him look like a jedi knight with a blue light saber, then gave him 999 potions of speed and soloed through the game as fast as I could :P Xan's moonblade is seriously some powerful stuff in the hands of a competent fighter...
  • DougPiranhaDougPiranha Member Posts: 50
    I don't like paladin as a class, but somehow I end up playing paladinlike character at least once in almost every game. Rangers are close second in BG. I guess I like playing elite characters.
  • ArndasArndas Member Posts: 42
    To be honest, I feel that the Ranger class can offer so much as you begin to level it up. You gain minor priest spells (which can help when fast healing is needed), and you can use any weapon or armor (nothing mage-related). In addition, you gain the great ability of having a racial enemy. This gives bonuses on rolls to hit and such against that creature.
  • ZafiroZafiro Member Posts: 436
    edited July 2012
    Cleric/Ranger all day, e'rr day!
  • O_BruceO_Bruce Member Posts: 2,790
    Just pure mage, without specialization. It was the first class that I was able to beat the game - it was very difficult, especially at the beginning, but I feelt great playing as a mage.
  • BLack_XIIIBLack_XIII Member Posts: 32
    Bard *_* they're wonderful really!
  • SchneidendSchneidend Member Posts: 3,190
    edited July 2012
    My first characters in that game were always half-elf Fighter/Clerics. I made two different ones.

    Recently revisited BG1 with Tutu and played as a Berserker. Nothing survived. I don't think I'll ever play a non-warrior CHARNAME ever again.
  • mch202mch202 Member Posts: 1,455
    Fighter/Thief
  • KenKen Member Posts: 226
    First class weere pure Mage.

    But I like to go Cleric/Mage and change the appearance to that of the candlekeep monks. Looks wise and intimidating!
  • Son_of_ImoenSon_of_Imoen Member Posts: 1,806
    I only played vanilla BG 1 once as a Fighter Mage, didn't even finish the playthrough, I have been playing ever since because I do want the BG2 engine, the Hard Times mod and Sword Coast Stratagems. Plus a lot more mods as icing on the cake.
  • paulsifer42paulsifer42 Member Posts: 267
    edited July 2012
    I always do a thief at least once. Partially for a little metagaming (I have a strong person to pic locks), and partially because I like the idea of me being a dexterous stealthy person (which I'm not in rl). I tend to play Rangers a lot too for the same reason.
  • RenshtalisRenshtalis Member Posts: 136
    Gotta be the red wizard!
  • GreyvenGreyven Member Posts: 3
    Paladin in first, necromancer also
  • CheesebellyCheesebelly Member Posts: 1,727
    Absolutely Cleric. Either single class, multi or dual combinations, I really really always enjoy playing a cleric, simply because of the many ways you can have to take out an entire party of people. Either cast hold person, or be more secretive, sneak into their lines with Sanctuary and check up what the best tactic is going to be, silence the mages, make a frontal attack.

    I really really love Clerics in every one of their aspects, even more so in BG2 though :)
  • FrozenCellsFrozenCells Member Posts: 385
    Fighter/Thief. Was the first class I completed BG1 with. Good combat, nice backstabbing and opportunity to do the Thieves' Guild questline which I always liked. Multiclasses in general are lots of fun in BG1 because they really don't lose much at all to single classes other than in the very early and very late periods of the game, yet gain a whole extra class (or two!). Favourite single-class would be a Bard.

    BGT and Spell Revisions mods would switch my choice to the Druid though...
  • g314g314 Member Posts: 201
    edited July 2012
    Mage/Thief. Coolest classes ever made. Even more epic when combined together. Less emphasis on combat, but still pretty versatile and definitely badass! Bonus points with Use Any Item and top-level mage spells, especially when combined with Robe of Vecna and Amulet of Power!

    Played also simple Fighter, simple Mage, Cleric/Mage and Fighter/Mage, but never got tired of this class when played with Epic Level Abilities. If I could make a Swashbuckler/Mage or even a Swashbuckler/Sorcerer... oh my! *.*

    EDIT: Oh, wait. Did you mean Vanilla BG1? Well, still keep this class. Wouldn't change it for anything! =)
  • MornmagorMornmagor Member Posts: 1,160
    I always wanted to play a dark knight, so it was always fighter/cleric dual, since paladin was always good and lawful.

    Now of course, this can change :p
  • FrozenCellsFrozenCells Member Posts: 385

    If I could make a Swashbuckler/Mage or even a Swashbuckler/Sorcerer... oh my! *.*
    Hopefully these are possible in BG:EE due to code and UI rewriting even if we have to edit them in. For me, I'd love an avenger/assassin!
  • KnettgummiKnettgummi Member Posts: 152
    Going with mage, since they are kinda my go-to, but really my favorite class is whatever changes up the gameplay the most from whatever I last played. That's what makes these games so replayable.
  • GridianGridian Member Posts: 50
    Always Mage. The magical system of AD&D is by far the best I have ever seen (both arcane and divine) and Baldur's Gate actually is the reason I always play some kind of a spellcaster whenever that's available.

    The sentence of The Lord of the Rings (first movie) also has its influence:
    "A wizard is never late. A wizard always arrives precicely when he means to." :D
  • DetectiveMittensDetectiveMittens Member Posts: 235
    I always tended to be the trusty fighter. But *sometimes* I decided to be a Cleric, you know just to mix things up.
  • AtlanticAtlantic Member Posts: 44
    Love the idea of a simple fighter- your average adventurer with slightly rusty armour and disproportionately sized weapons. Even if by the end of ToB you do become some uber-warrior able to kill small creatures merely by staring at them
  • CrynusCrynus Member Posts: 17
    Every time I play a different class, I always think what I could do if I was a Mage instead? What new spells can I use or combos can I discover. So definitely Mage for me
  • WinthalWinthal Member Posts: 366
    edited July 2012
    Mornmagor said:

    I always wanted to play a dark knight, so it was always fighter/cleric dual, since paladin was always good and lawful.

    Now of course, this can change :p

    @Mornmagor You'll like the Blackguard class they're adding for BG:EE then ;)
  • cyberarmycyberarmy Member Posts: 128
    Thief and Ranger
  • raywindraywind Member Posts: 289
    Bard or thief and in bg2 somo kit from those
  • FrozenDervishFrozenDervish Member Posts: 295
    Multi-class mage because swords and magic together is the best combination.
  • MornmagorMornmagor Member Posts: 1,160
    Winthal said:

    Mornmagor said:

    I always wanted to play a dark knight, so it was always fighter/cleric dual, since paladin was always good and lawful.

    Now of course, this can change :p

    @Mornmagor You'll like the Blackguard class they're adding for BG:EE then ;)
    Indeed :P (unless it's lame of course :P)
  • skrissakskrissak Member Posts: 24
    fighter, I love me some heavy armor and big swords
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