From what I can recall you can get more than 5mil exp before spellhold by doing every quest and maybe the first level or two of watchers keep. That allows you to dual from fighter at 13 (1.25m) and still easily grab UAI as a thief at 24 (just over 4.3m total exp I believe).
Sorry for recreating the Foebane theme, but I've found it only now:
There was a succesful no-reload Wizard Slayer solo run, documented at the Bioware forums. This was a vanilla playthrough though, so without difficulty increasing mods such as SCS.
The main hand weapons in this run were Flail of Ages (for its slow effect and elemental damages) and Foebane (whose bonuses against demons will come in handy and whose no save Larloch's Minor Drain on every hit will help maintain your health).
Well apart from weapon classes if I had to choose a specific weapon I really hated it would be the Equalizer, not because it's overly bad, it's average at best. The reason I hate this little blue sword is all the hope I had the first time I picked up that pommel gem. I picked up that gem, read the description and thought wow at some point I'm gonna make a sword to end all swords. Then I proceeded to carry the damn thing with me to the underdark and back, getting more excited each time I picked up a new piece.
Actually crafting the Equalizer is the biggest let down in the entire BG series.
Well apart from weapon classes if I had to choose a specific weapon I really hated it would be the Equalizer, not because it's overly bad, it's average at best. The reason I hate this little blue sword is all the hope I had the first time I picked up that pommel gem. I picked up that gem, read the description and thought wow at some point I'm gonna make a sword to end all swords. Then I proceeded to carry the damn thing with me to the underdark and back, getting more excited each time I picked up a new piece.
Actually crafting the Equalizer is the biggest let down in the entire BG series.
Young me: "Hey, a pommel! Man, this must be one of those 'end game' weapons for beating the final boss. I better keep it."
Young me in the underdark: "I have it all! Those battles nearly broke me, but I have them! Ha! It was so worth putting all of my proficiency points in longswords. I bet this is as good as Caromsyr."
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There was a succesful no-reload Wizard Slayer solo run, documented at the Bioware forums. This was a vanilla playthrough though, so without difficulty increasing mods such as SCS.
The main hand weapons in this run were Flail of Ages (for its slow effect and elemental damages) and Foebane (whose bonuses against demons will come in handy and whose no save Larloch's Minor Drain on every hit will help maintain your health).
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So, the circumstances do matter when trying to evaluate each weapon. For a soloing warrior Foebane is a very good choice.
I picked up that gem, read the description and thought wow at some point I'm gonna make a sword to end all swords.
Then I proceeded to carry the damn thing with me to the underdark and back, getting more excited each time I picked up a new piece.
Actually crafting the Equalizer is the biggest let down in the entire BG series.
Young me in the underdark: "I have it all! Those battles nearly broke me, but I have them! Ha! It was so worth putting all of my proficiency points in longswords. I bet this is as good as Caromsyr."
Young me with the equalizer: