I believe I have run into a variety of this bug, dualclassing a Ranger to Cleric.
I haven't gone into extensive testing of this issue yet (because the purpose of the character at the time was to test something else). But I seem to remember that the character did get at least some HLAs, if I leveled him up one level at a time.
To me, this smelled of a 2DA table that needs to be expanded into high levels.
Can you share your actual experiences though? If you saw this in actual gameplay, then I am probably wrong.
i did not level him up one level at a time as in "normal" game. i was using cheats/console to test various endgame builds. swashbuckler-cleric and pure thief-cleric duals did not have such problem. unfortunately i already uninstalled the game or i would test leveling them up one level at a time.
With some detective work over at G3, we've figured out the apparent cause: if you have a kit, and you have one or more proficiency points you can't assign when you level up, the level-up process skips the HLA screen.
Kit -> Cleric duals are, of course, the most likely way to trigger this issue.
No solution yet; it'll most likely require UI modding to figure out.
workaround: before doing level-up with unusable proficiency point, remove one point from any of weapon proficiencies or fighting styles with "EE Keeper"
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I haven't gone into extensive testing of this issue yet (because the purpose of the character at the time was to test something else). But I seem to remember that the character did get at least some HLAs, if I leveled him up one level at a time.
To me, this smelled of a 2DA table that needs to be expanded into high levels.
Can you share your actual experiences though? If you saw this in actual gameplay, then I am probably wrong.
Kit -> Cleric duals are, of course, the most likely way to trigger this issue.
No solution yet; it'll most likely require UI modding to figure out.