Fighter makes the game too easy
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I have a level 20+ party in BG 2 and fighters feel overpowered. If you dual wield belm + something else, you can hit 5 attacks before buffs and average 100+ damage per round. If your PC is a fighter, he can use holy might to bump his strength to 25 easily.
Im not even bothering to cast any spells in battles, my fighter just slaughters everything, Firkaarg died in 2 rounds...(i wasnt level 20+ at that point but it didnt matter)
The only thing that doesnt die fast are admantanium golems with their 90% resist, but they cant hurt my fighter so its just a matter of waiting till it dies.
The dwarven saving throw bonus also makes you immune to pretty much any spell that allows a saving throw, enrage makes you immune to stuff like imprisonment/maze that dont allow saving throws and direct damage spells cant do enough damage before the fighter chews through a mage's protection.
Pretty much every lich fight goes like this :
1. Fighter facetanks lich while waiting for combat protections to wear off
2. Fighter damages lich to 50% where the second set of combat protections activate
3. Fighter facetanks lich while waiting for combat protections to wear off again
4. Lich dies
There is zero strategy or preparation needed.
Im not even bothering to cast any spells in battles, my fighter just slaughters everything, Firkaarg died in 2 rounds...(i wasnt level 20+ at that point but it didnt matter)
The only thing that doesnt die fast are admantanium golems with their 90% resist, but they cant hurt my fighter so its just a matter of waiting till it dies.
The dwarven saving throw bonus also makes you immune to pretty much any spell that allows a saving throw, enrage makes you immune to stuff like imprisonment/maze that dont allow saving throws and direct damage spells cant do enough damage before the fighter chews through a mage's protection.
Pretty much every lich fight goes like this :
1. Fighter facetanks lich while waiting for combat protections to wear off
2. Fighter damages lich to 50% where the second set of combat protections activate
3. Fighter facetanks lich while waiting for combat protections to wear off again
4. Lich dies
There is zero strategy or preparation needed.
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I actually got killed by the Ogre Mage the Djinni summons in the room in Irenicus' Dungeon (i used SCS's option to enhance various spell casting monsters, Djinn, Demons etc) when it used charm person on me and i failed my save. That was an eye opener for SCS lmao.
I didnt even use any HLAs.
Try a plain fighter next time.. you will see they are far more vulnerable. Perhaps this will be more fun for you.
And trying SCS will also help - I think it will make all battles with spellcasters more difficult, not just mages but also including dragons, liches and more.
And when you can kill a dragon in two rounds...its kind of ridiculous...I pretty much breezed through watcher's keep without even trying.
i STRONGLY advise you start using SCS, it literally changes the entire game, in BG1 it enhances most of the Boss/chapter end fights as well as generic spell casting monsters, in BG2 you can even get it to add HLA's to spell casters...Note that i do NOT turn that on, imagine the same Lich with the ability to cast Dragonbreath and Improved Alacrity! SCS also tweaks encounters with Ascension component adding a TON to TOB particularly.