Suggest to me a party layout
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Preface:
I've played through Bg1 and Bg2 and ToB around 5 or 6 times when they werent enhanced. Typically I'd play a PC mage, cleric, fighter or sub-type. Frequently play a human and optimize builds for dual classing, etc. Trend was playing evil aligned parties, but I played through twice as good I think. Fav NPCs I can list off the top of my head are Edwin, Viconia, Minsc, Sarevok, Keldorn, Xzar, Tiax - not necessarily for combat, but sometimes for their personality.
I want to play through 1+2 enhanced with largely the same 4 people, with the last slot cycling as needed.
I will play BG1 primarily as thief, and probably dual to some kind of mage in BG2. Reason being I never played as thief, and I want to swap a mage for a thief from 1->2. I also know Edwin/Neera are incompatible, so I'll have to suck it up and not use him at all.
I am looking at:
BG1: Dorn, Neera, Viconia, Baeloth, PC Thief + ?
BG2: Dorn, Neera, Viconia, Hexaat, PC Thief/Mage + ?
ToB: Dorn, Neera, Viconia, Hexaat, PC Thief/Mage, Sarevok
In terms of playstyle, I tend to shy away from cheese tactics like monster summon and trap spamming, but ironically will use SKeeper sometimes to change an NPC class to keep it interesting, but those choices are done very early and are stuck with, as if you found them that way type thing - I don't change them on the fly or late game at all.
But I am wondering if playing evil again is going to get boring. Can rasaad get along with the new and/or old NPCs? I assume his lawful good alignment won't let him. Similarly, how flexible is Dorn with the new/old NPCs? Is he like a Korgan in terms of never getting along with the goody-two-shoes?
I've played through Bg1 and Bg2 and ToB around 5 or 6 times when they werent enhanced. Typically I'd play a PC mage, cleric, fighter or sub-type. Frequently play a human and optimize builds for dual classing, etc. Trend was playing evil aligned parties, but I played through twice as good I think. Fav NPCs I can list off the top of my head are Edwin, Viconia, Minsc, Sarevok, Keldorn, Xzar, Tiax - not necessarily for combat, but sometimes for their personality.
I want to play through 1+2 enhanced with largely the same 4 people, with the last slot cycling as needed.
I will play BG1 primarily as thief, and probably dual to some kind of mage in BG2. Reason being I never played as thief, and I want to swap a mage for a thief from 1->2. I also know Edwin/Neera are incompatible, so I'll have to suck it up and not use him at all.
I am looking at:
BG1: Dorn, Neera, Viconia, Baeloth, PC Thief + ?
BG2: Dorn, Neera, Viconia, Hexaat, PC Thief/Mage + ?
ToB: Dorn, Neera, Viconia, Hexaat, PC Thief/Mage, Sarevok
In terms of playstyle, I tend to shy away from cheese tactics like monster summon and trap spamming, but ironically will use SKeeper sometimes to change an NPC class to keep it interesting, but those choices are done very early and are stuck with, as if you found them that way type thing - I don't change them on the fly or late game at all.
But I am wondering if playing evil again is going to get boring. Can rasaad get along with the new and/or old NPCs? I assume his lawful good alignment won't let him. Similarly, how flexible is Dorn with the new/old NPCs? Is he like a Korgan in terms of never getting along with the goody-two-shoes?
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Be warned that the quest to pick up Dorn in BG2 in fact also makes some quests impossible to finish at all or complete in a certain way. You'll understand why when you meet Dorn in BG2. I have to say this disappointed me a bit, but I'll live with it.
This is the party I'm using:
Me (wild mage), Neera, Dorn, Korgan, Viconia, Hexxat
So far, everything is going well. Just took down Firkraag, in fact. I love how I just stick Dorn and Hexxat up front when fighting vampires and I don't have to worry about level drain. Hexxat also kind of got eaten by Firkraag, but she just respawns 8 hours later, no resurrection needed. The evil NPCs are great.
Also a side question - in BG2 - what determines your class quest if you're dual? As a Theif/Mage can I do both the thieves guild and the planar sphere?