BG2: Best weapon style for flail of ages?
taltamir
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What is the best weapon style for a character that intends to use flail of ages?
I am thinking either single weapon for the double chance of a crit.
or 2 weapon for that offhand weapon that sets your strength to equal 25.
shield just doesn't seem useful to me. I can situationally use the shield that reflects attacks back at the attacker without the weapon style.
I am thinking either single weapon for the double chance of a crit.
or 2 weapon for that offhand weapon that sets your strength to equal 25.
shield just doesn't seem useful to me. I can situationally use the shield that reflects attacks back at the attacker without the weapon style.
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Crom Faeyr is a decent option as well, depending on your characters STR score. The lower it is, the better Crom Faeyr becomes. On average, one of the above-mentioned +APR weapons is better if your STR is 19 or more.
Also keep in mind the other party members; you might want to consider shifting weapons around in a way to get the most out of them.
Flailing.
Flails.
Besides, missile weapons aren't nearly as big a problem in BG2 as they were in BG1.
Crom is only really worth using if you're Good (no +3 str from evil choices) and a Wizard Slayer (no str belts). Unless of course you're playing with random stats and might have a lower then ideal str amount, in which case it's probably worth it.
In a vacuum, though, Crom Faeyr certainly competes with FoA - its value diminishes with every point of STR you gain, however. Assuming you come in from BG1 with 19 STR, Crom Faeyr will deal more damage than FoA; however, as @ZanathKariashi pointed out, there are several more STR bonuses available in BG2/ToB. With 20 STR, FoA is already better.
That's only talking about CHARNAME, though. Your party members do exist, and may make good use of Crom Faeyr. But as I said before: you have to take the entire party into account for that decision, both their stats and their classes. Giving Crom Faeyr to a cleric, for example, is not the best idea, as its STR bonus is fairly redundant with Draw upon Holy Might. It's also less effective on characters with low APR, as the STR bonus applies to all attacks - more attacks equals more total damage added by Crom Faeyr.
This all sounds very complicated, but that's how it is. Optimization is a fairly complex process, and depends on many factors. You don't always have to be 100% optimal, though; when playing unmodded games, the differences may be fairly small and hard to notice. Just keep the general suggestions in mind (like the DuHM caveat), and you should be fine.
DUHM's effectiveness for str also depends on how high your base str is. If you aren't maxed out in str because you put stats elsewhere or didnt roll very high, then Crom as a str booster can surpass whatever DUHM might give you.
EDIT: And for anyone curious... even a dual wielding straight up single class priest of lathander can achieve 3 apr just using his spells and boon of lathander even without the benefits of an apr ohand weapon.
As for the duration, I don't think it's much of an issue. A turn is 60 seconds afaik, and while it's true that it can be annoying to re-buff, you rarely go through "a whole dungeon on a single casting"; why would you? There is almost no penalty to resting in BG2, not to mention that you can easily afford to just fill pretty much all of your lvl2 slots with DuHM as there are no other spells you consistently cast at that level.
These statements are always just generalizations, of course. Individual situations may vary depending on many factors, but we can't really go into every permutation or we'll never finish...
Rest of the party is (or will be) minsk, jehira, imoen, aerie, and viconia.
So, who do you think I should give crom faeyr to?
EDIT: Nvm, you need a mod for multi class grandmastery, don't you... hard to say in that case, it depends on the individual stats and I'm too lazy to look them up :P Sorry.
just spears, scimitars, clubs, QS, slings, darts. Maybe daggers...been awhile.
Thanks for the advice everyone