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Monk patch question

mumumomomumumomo Member Posts: 635
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As you may know, bgee and bg2ee have 2 different ways of handling monk's AC :
- in bgee, the base AC is always 10 and, as the monk gains level, he gets bonus to his AC. This is extremely powerful because this bonus is cumulative with bracers of defense or potion of defense, allowing the monk to reach very low AC
- in bg2ee, it's the opposite, the base AC is changed directly, making it not cumulative with bracers and potions

The main issue is that, when you export a monk from bgee to bg2ee he gets the best of both world : his base ac is set at 5, as per bg2ee rule and , on top of that, he gets an additonnal bonus of 5 (from bgee) . When leveling, his base ac will continue to improve and he will always keep the 5 bonus from bgee.

This is a problem for me because i feel this extra 5 bonus make them much more powerful thanthey are supposed to be.

Therefore i would like to know if there is any plan in an up oming patch to solve that problem.

Thanks in advance.

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  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    edited May 2014
    Edit: Looking at the release date for the fix I'm actually wrong. It certainly has been fixed internally in the case of BG2EE but I just tried it out in-game (non-beta) and it obviously didn't make it into the last non-beta patch. Anyways, having tested it in both games for me it works the same in both. Hopefully it will be addressed in both games at some point. Tresset also apparently has posted a fix for this.
    Post edited by elminster on
  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    edited May 2014
    Yeah, I should have checked the release version to see what was going on first. Odd that mumumomo is experiencing this... It may actually be a bug of some sort.
    Post edited by Tresset on
  • LoubLoub Member Posts: 471
    Er... if this is true, then the character sheet is bugged for me, since Rasaad still benefits (greatly) from Bracers, which allow him to reach an astounding -20 AC unbuffed in SoA.
    Although this might be a side effect from the 50-level ccap mod, I don't know.
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    Loub said:

    Er... if this is true, then the character sheet is bugged for me, since Rasaad still benefits (greatly) from Bracers, which allow him to reach an astounding -20 AC unbuffed in SoA.
    Although this might be a side effect from the 50-level ccap mod, I don't know.

    Yea I just tested it and for me it exists in both games.
  • LoubLoub Member Posts: 471
    edited May 2014
    elminster said:

    Loub said:

    Er... if this is true, then the character sheet is bugged for me, since Rasaad still benefits (greatly) from Bracers, which allow him to reach an astounding -20 AC unbuffed in SoA.
    Although this might be a side effect from the 50-level ccap mod, I don't know.

    Yea I just tested it and for me it exists in both games.
    So, is the -20 AC correct (as in 'carries over to game mechanics') or is it a display bug?
  • mumumomomumumomo Member Posts: 635
    Thanks for the help
    The thing is, since i play on ipad, i cannot use EE keeper...
  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    @mumumomo‌ Can you upload a save file? I could fix it for you...
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    Loub said:

    elminster said:

    Loub said:

    Er... if this is true, then the character sheet is bugged for me, since Rasaad still benefits (greatly) from Bracers, which allow him to reach an astounding -20 AC unbuffed in SoA.
    Although this might be a side effect from the 50-level ccap mod, I don't know.

    Yea I just tested it and for me it exists in both games.
    So, is the -20 AC correct (as in 'carries over to game mechanics') or is it a display bug?
    Yea apparently they externalized the monk ac bonus. Anyways as Tresset pointed out its actually a spl file that grants the monks AC bonus and while it should have been set your base AC to a fixed amount it instead is working in addition to items that reduce your base AC. So yea its not an issue with the display as I understand it you actually have that AC.
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