Soloing and dual classing problem
Moonheart
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I was thinking to try a little challenge, but I'm facing a little problem:
My character is playing solo, and has to dual class.
Alas, as soon he dual class, it becomes unable to kill enemies of its level due to starting up at level 1.
I was wondering if there would be some trick to make him get immediatly a few level as soon it dual class, so it will gain a few level and can keep going in the adventure.
Any idea?
My character is playing solo, and has to dual class.
Alas, as soon he dual class, it becomes unable to kill enemies of its level due to starting up at level 1.
I was wondering if there would be some trick to make him get immediatly a few level as soon it dual class, so it will gain a few level and can keep going in the adventure.
Any idea?
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A general "trick" is to almost finish the quests, leaving it before the last dialog.
So you can come back later to get the reward on the dual-class.
You can also finish up some major quests BEFORE you dual but NOT hand them in for the reward, which is usually a lot of XP. You simply go on leveling until you dual, THEN hand them in - and get a chunk of XP to catapult you through a bunch of levels at once.
If all that fails, go to areas with low level monsters. The sewers under the Copper Coronet, for example, or the outside area of the Windspear Hills. And a few others. See what works best for you, with the XP values in BG2 it shouldn't take long to regain levels.
Finally, if you really cannot make it work - go multiclass from the start instead.
The game already screw me because it gives my character more levels in my first class that I truly want to have, straight out of the creation... and I have no clue to counter that without using cheats.
Then, I'm starting chapter 2 with too few levels in the second class for the challenge I want to take on.
If the game allowed me to level up step by step, I would have no problem... but except re-playing the WHOLE BG1, I don't see a way to do that... and that's just too long.
the only way to make lower Dualclass Combinations is Starting one up in BG1, leveling him up with EE KEEPER to the spot you want and then dualing and then finally exporting him to BG 2, or you just actually play him and do the same.
Secondly a Shadowdancer on this Low Level would be Sorta Rubbish, you just don't have enough skill Points for Sneaking (don't forget that in broad daylight your sneaking gets even halved)
thus making his hide in Plain sight Useless and Unreliable his backstab is also lower by1x and not even worth the effort to micromanage him into position.
and the Gear that adds stealth ability's could be better be replaced with mage Enhancing gear.
my Personal Recommendation is , get a Swashbuckler 6 then Dual to mage , you get some Extra Hitpoints, the Thief Weapon selection, the Full Lockpicking/Find Trap to 100 free 2Armor and +1Hit/DMG Values.
You wont have Back stab (at this low levels of thief no loss) and your Sneaking also wont work but the lvl 2 Spell invisibility is the "Better" sneaking. to scout ahead get an overview of the map and monsters etc.
(just make sure your Autocombat Scripts are off or you might get ...problems.)
Another Great combo if you don't have EEKeeper and don't wanna mess around With BG1 creating importing and the whole fishy business is a lvl 9/10 Assassin and then Dual to mage.
assassin has slower skillpoint progression then other thief s so with 9 you just hit those sweet 100 lockpick/findtrap, you get 1hit/dmg , 3 x Poison weapon a Rest, (which works with melfs Minute meteorite 5 attacks per round and makes you a mage/cleric KILLER)
you be lvl 9/10 by leaving the first dungeon so that's no trouble, once out use your looted thief Potions to crank up that Pickpocket temporarily to steal even more of these potions and snowball , being able to carry out all of ribald's shop you want (including a shitload of spells) making you almost get those duallevels back before even leaving the promenade with scribe scrolls.
also you can still backstab with Invisibility by a x4 back stab bonus (normal thief maximum is 5. and assassins get x7 very late so you got a good cut there)
have fun in the Shadows !
Having Find Trap is just a bonus to this.
the Swashbuckler and Assassin Bonuses are way More Impressive then walking 7 second around being unable to do squat :I
I need something more reliable than this for the challenge I would like to take on.
Reportedly created for a lineage of the greatest burglars ever to walk the night, this cloak was apparently a success. No record exists of previous owners.
STATISTICS:
Equipped abilities:
– While hidden or invisible, the wearer is non-detectable by magical means such as Detect Invisibility and scrying
Weight: 3
If it does, is there a way to have it as soon you get out of Irennicus dungeon?
I just have SCS, Tactics, Ascension and some minor mods.
My Sorcerer with SotM and the cloak can't be reveled by either Detect Illusion, Oracle or True Sight.
But maybe this has to do with the "illusion" flag.
I made a solo Shadowdancer=>Mage playthrough, I dualled at level 9 into a mage.
What's good with with level 9 (110 000 exp for a thief) is that it is roughly what you reach when you end Chateau Irenicus, just before Imoen is taken which means you can dual just before the end of Chateau Irenicus and get that bunch of quest exp straight after.
What's also good is that you get decent Hide/Move silently skills (120 each if you put your points in these only) which will be enough most of the time (When it's not just shadowstep) and *3 backstab multiplier (Which provides you with a good damage per round should you run out of spells).
It takes 250 000 exp to get your abilities back but if you learn scrolls (I do not mean learning/erasing/learning..., just learning once) you should get your abilities (or at least a decent enough mage level) soon enough.
You do not lose any mage level in the end either (reaching level 31 as a mage at 7,875,000).
I really believe that dualling a shadowdancer at level 9 is optimal here.
For my goals, it is not.
For my goal, what is optimal is what nets me the shortest amount of time where Shadowstep is desactivated. And with SD9=>Mage, it is desactived 6 times longer that with SD5=>Mage
My problem is: is there a way to dual at 5 without playing BG1 or cheating ?
I hate that systems that makes that if you have too much xp, you're forced to get all the levels up at once... if only I could get them one by one without cheating or playing most of the BG1 content just for that