Blade Build Stats
craymond727
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What stats are recommended at minimum for a decent Blade build? I played as a Blade through the entire BG EE series, and found that the tomes proved a godsend. IIRC, there are no such goodies in Icewind Dale, constricting what's feasible to roll. Right now, I have a 93 roll saved, with 18 Str/18 Dex/16 Con/16 Int/10 Wis/15 Cha. Is this good enough, or should I try for something higher/move some points around? I don't want to use EEKeeper to artificially alter my stats.
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Blades only need 14 INT for spells. Or 15 if you don't want to save reload when scribing spells, since you can just drink a potion of Genius for 19 INT for perfect scribing. Or just change the difficulty to Easy for scribing, so again back to 14.
18 INT will still have a chance at failing to scribe spells, so you're still saving and reloading with that much INT
Even with the minimum amout of INT, you're still going to have more than enough space in the spellbook for a spell that would actually be useful. Although you'll need to drink Potions of Genius to scribe higher level spells.
Also if you're using your Blade as your buying character, IIRC you get biggest discount with at least 20 Charisma.
Although there's an item that has a Charisma bonus later on. But it really shouldn't matter, the game gives you so much gold, you won't really need the discount.
93 roll is fine, don't need wisdom for anything unless you want to use that one weird bard only item so drop it a couple of points and boost int to 18 to have an easier time with scrolls and keep everything else the same.
The important thing for your bard is to pick up one of the +1 strength items. There's a couple around though one of them is non-good only though you might want to wear glimmering bands which would conflict with that so just decide on what items and figure out where they are and make sure you get them (especially the +1 strength item). Other than that you might want to jump into the expansion early to pick up the Longswords of Action or plan on other weapons.
I've played a blade in IWDee and had a really good time. I think the key is to play it in a smaller 3-4 character party to give him a chance to shine.