What items to import into BG2:EE from BG:EE?

doneill2000

So what are the best items to import to the next game? I have a base idea on things I plan to bring in but I want to know if there are any things that really end up shining. Thoughts?

Ryofu

Helm of Balduran
Golden Pantaloons

Armor wise all the options are pretty lame. I would personally go with the mail of the dead +2 since plate mail +1 is easily looted very early, in the first ambush of the game iirc

Shin

Unless you use a mod or manually edit items into BG2:EE, there are very few items you can bring, so there's not that much of a choice.

doneill2000

Oh really? So if I wanted to say take Armor of the Dark Lord to BG2:EE I couldnt? If thats so I am going to be upset.

atcDave

Don't get too attached to your stuff! Basically, you loose everything and start over on BG2. Better stuff appears quickly. But rebuilding your inventory and party is a big part of the early game.

CrevsDaak

Just be sure to take the Golden Pantaloons if you want to have fun (and become death, destroyer of worlds in ToB).

MERLANCE

I like the Claw of Kazgaroth over the Helm of Balduran. Plenty of other helmets out there, not so many awesome rings that give AC that you can wear with magic armor.

Plenty of NPCs out there that -2 con won't affect.

Mitchfork

doneill2000 said:

Oh really? So if I wanted to say take Armor of the Dark Lord to BG2:EE I couldnt? If thats so I am going to be upset.

You'll get better armor pretty quickly in Shadows of Amn.

doneill2000

So how do they sort out what you keep? Is it just what your wearing or what?

Mitchfork

In the original BG2 you couldn't import a save file, you only imported a character file, so any items that you carried over had to be either equipped or in the inventory of the main character. They may have changed the Enhanced Editions to look in your entire party's inventory, but I'm not sure.

Note that all of the info I've got about item importing is from the original Shadows of Amn so some of this may have been tweaked... but probably not. It gave me the correct items.

The game will check your inventory and then pick three items to import over- these won't actually start in your inventory but they can be looted in the first area of the game. The first item it checks for is the Golden Pantaloons- if you've got them, they'll appear in a container; otherwise, you can't get them.

The game then checks through two lists, one for armor, and the other for miscellaneous equipment. The first list is:

1. Protector of the Second (Leather Armor +2)
2. Mail of the Dead (Chain Mail +2)
3. Fallorain's Plate (Plate Mail +1)
4. Studded Leather Armor +2, Missile Attraction (I don't know if you could actually find this item in the original, it was cursed and worthless anyway)
5. Chain Mail +3

If you have any of these items, it will be found on an enemy in the first area. If you have more than one, the item highest in the list takes precedence. For example, if you had the both Fallorain's Plate and Protector of the Second, only Protector of the Second will appear. If you don't have any, the enemy will have the Mail of the Dead.

Here's the miscellaneous list:

1. Helm of Balduran
2. Claw of Kazgaroth
3. Horn of Kazgaroth
4. Koveras' Ring of Protection +1

Same as above, highest item takes precedence if you have more than one. If you don't have any, the game will give you the Helm of Balduran. This item is found in a container.

...Apparently, there was also supposed to be a weapon imported, but this was never actually implemented despite the dialog still existing in the game. The weapon you do get would actually have been one of the best melee weapons in the game, though, so it's not a bad deal at all.

Losing your equipment isn't so bad, you get to rediscover entire tiers of weaponry and armor. Really makes the early game quite entertaining as you're constantly getting cool, brand-new items.

doneill2000

Thank you so much @mitchfork. That was really helpful, just a final question though. When you encounter Drizzt in the second game dont you have to have his items from the first? I dont mean that you have to have said items to have the encounter but is that not when he comes up with his party and trys to kill you? How does this work?

Aranthys

I believe they also corrected a bug that prevented the same check but for weapon import (and always picked the default value of Sarevok sword +2)

Mitchfork

doneill2000 said:

Thank you so much @mitchfork. That was really helpful, just a final question though. When you encounter Drizzt in the second game dont you have to have his items from the first? I dont mean that you have to have said items to have the encounter but is that not when he comes up with his party and trys to kill you? How does this work?

The game will check your imported character's inventory for Drizzt's equipment when you start the game and change this encounter accordingly, but the items aren't actually imported as such.

doneill2000

Oh ok thank. So when I import it will cheeck my inventory for Drizzts stuff and if I have it the encounter I have with him in that game will be different but I wont get his stuff from the first game correct?

Mitchfork

That's right, you've got it.

doneill2000

Thank you your help was quite apperciated.