Fighter/Thief proficiences

cbarchuk

Trying to figure what proficiences to run with on my halfling fighter/thief. Should I go single weapon style and bow or dual wielding? The former would allow me to play at range or swap to a single weapon for backstabs. The latter would be a fully focused melee combatant. What is everyone else doing?

RAM021

Our experience has been that for primarily melee rogues that Sneak Attack is often the superior option, and thus TWFing is the way to go.

For backstabs, S&B's increased crit chance is generally preferred.

Zyzzogeton

Bows early on, then dual wield later. Yes even against Skeletons, because either they die easily in non-HoF or you really want to reduce the number of characters you have in melee range early game in HoF

Being limited to 2 pips per weapon will give you enough points to do both without gimping melee or ranged.

JuliusBorisov

I use a fighter/thief as a backstabber and an archer.

* SW fighting style (for increased critical hits)
** Dagger (there're many wonderful daggers in IWDEE (including the one with -5 to THACO), they come from the start to the finish)
* longbow (there're many badass ones here as well, including the one with lots of APR), later you can put another * here
** Katana later on (you must explore and find that deadly katana yourself)

Fandraxx

I honestly like to play my thief as a dual wielding backstabber. Even if they do get caught in the fray they get to a point where the dps is super high because your dual wielding. But this will take some time because of the aforementioned 2 points a level 1.

cbarchuk

bengoshi said:

I use a fighter/thief as a backstabber and an archer.

* SW fighting style (for increased critical hits)
** Dagger (there're many wonderful daggers in IWDEE (including the one with -5 to THACO), they come from the start to the finish)
* longbow (there're many badass ones here as well, including the one with lots of APR), later you can put another * here
** Katana later on (you must explore and find that deadly katana yourself)

Bengoshi, what race do you usually go with? Do you go with backstab or sneak attack?

JuliusBorisov

@cbarchuk‌

In IWDEE I go with a dwarf. Very good saving throw bonuses, and I like dwarves. In this game you can easily up your DEX to 20 with Cat's Grace spell + there're several items that improve DEX + there's a bard song.

And about backstab/sneak attack - I prefet to have backstabs (chunking a mage or a cleric is great) but in one of my future runs I will activate sneak attacks just to test them.