powerplaying my dual class

Arthas

I wanted to do a dual berserker mage.

I was wondering if the most powerplayish thing is to dual around 13, or to wait even more. I read about people dual classing kensais around 21\22, and I'm wondering if the same could be done for Berserkers.

Beside, by going solo and also doing siege of dragonspear solo, I expect to have a lot of xp. And I will also abuse everywhere (like killing shandalar and drizzt. Suggestions?)

edit: I will also remove the xp cap. So suggestions are welcome.

FinneousPJ

I don't think you will have much fun dualing around level 20.

Jaheiras_Witness

20+ is pretty crazy. 13 is powerful, difficult but doable.

Lord_Tansheron

@Arthas As I keep repeating, I personally recommend not dualing later than lvl 9 (as a Fighter) - even solo. The reason isn't that you don't get good things waiting until 13 (you do) but it is not worth the cost.

Just going from 9 to 10 is the same xp as the entire journey from 1 to 9. Every level thereafter is that much - and you have to do it on the second class as well. Even with mage scribing and quest metagaming, it's too steep of a cost for what you get.

Just dual at 9, regain quickly, and skyrocket your levels from there. APR are not an issue because you can be sure to use the gauntlets solo that make up for the 1/2 APR you lose from not being lvl 13, meaning you can still max out natural APR with a +APR offhand.

Alternatively you can also just multiclass Fighter/Mage. When playing solo there are very real arguments to be made for multi being better than dual, though it's likely a close call either way.

jtth

If you really are doing all this (hopefully with SCS and on high difficulty otherwise it won't be any fun) you could hit 13 in SoD if you clean through all the content in ToSC. But then you aren't really playing a mage until BG2. And Durlag's is going to be a pain without a thief.

Just multi, it's a lot more fun solo in my opinion. That way you play the same character throughout.

I really do hope you are playing with difficulty mods otherwise this isn't going to be any fun.

dunbar

Everything that @Lord-Tansheron said, but on the subject of dual v. multi for a solo run I've found that dualing is more interesting (for me anyway). With a multi solo the game is one long grind (still fun though), whereas when dualing there are two distinct points where the character of the game (unintended pun) changes completely:
Firstly, when you dual to the second class and you have to completely change your mindset and tactics. Then secondly, when your first class comes back into play and it feels like all your Christmases have come at once.