Possible Good Party Composition for BG2EE

Elendar

I've been considering making a new Cavalier to do a quick run through of BGEE in the next week or so in order to do the following party.

(or could use an existing Cavalier that already beat Sarevok a year ago, but would have to Shadowkeeper the proficiencies to what I want)

Cavalier (dual-wielding Flail of the Ages and Belm)
Keldorn (Carsomyr)
Anomen (unsure about which weapons atm, might do Celestial Fury with my Cav instead and give FOA to Ano)
Neera (for new content and Wild Mage lols and romance option)
Rasaad (for new content)
Imoen/Yoshimo (or possibly Nalia as a replacement until rescuing Imoen, but leaning towards Yoshimo simply because I haven't used him since my very first playthrough)

I figure between Neera and Imoen, there should be enough arcane spellcasting to get the job done and obviously Anomen could take care of the high level cleric spells.

How well do you think this party composition would work out?

Delvarian

Pretty solid though the thief skills will be a bit lacking once Immy becomes your thief. A doable group however.

Elendar

Delvarian said:

Pretty solid though the thief skills will be a bit lacking once Immy becomes your thief. A doable group however.

Is she unable to deal with most traps and locks in the late portions of the game?

Eudaemonium

I think if you give her the rings that boost Find Traps and Open Locks she's fine, or carry around a bunch of Thievery Potions for backup. I could be wrong, though, but I seem to remember that this is the case.

Elendar

Hmm, I was just looking at the stats for these NPCs and notice that both Keldorn and Anomen have abysmal Dexterity and both would absolutely require the Gauntlets of Dexterity. Thinking I may have to drop Keldorn and replace him with Minsc, though I really don't want my Cavalier to use Carsomyr himself. :P

edit: Of course, this assumes that Overhaul doesn't add an additional set of the gauntlets somewhere in the new areas.

Duron

Well overall I'd go with Carsomyr on your main so then you can give Flail to Anomen, I myself would replace Keldorn, what on Earth do you need 2 paladins in a party, 1 is already enough :P
As for party, I'll be honest and say I prefer to have a druid with me, so to me Jaheira is almost always a must, yes she ain't the best figher but summoning elemental princes in the end of the game is just something that even Deva's or Planetars can't replace. Not to mention all your healing focuses on one of your front man and less of other buffs as druid buffs are useful (or other cleric buffs when I am at that one).

Overall, your party is quite doable I just prefer having 2 arcane and two divine spellcasters.
As for Imoen Thief skills... potions, potions, potions. Good thing that money for potions in BG2 just like BG1 is not really a problem. And like someone already posted you can get items to increase thief skills.

Corvino

The Ring of danger sense (found in the Planar Sphere power core) and the Ring of Lockpicking (found in the shadow thief HQ) both help Imoen as a sole thief.

Eudaemonium

Assuming BG2EE has the bonus merchants, there is also the Mercykiller ring.