When you get lucky rolls (Rant)

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• JuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,725

  February 2015

  An archer is a beast in IWDEE, an archer with a 98-roll is even beastier
  
  Have a fun run and welcome to the forum!
  
  Also, follow http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/34077/how-to-post-files-images-step-by-step-guide#latest and http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/161/how-to-format-your-posts#latest in terms of formatting your posts.

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• Musigny Member Posts: 1,027

  February 2015

  Hello and welcome!
  A nice character.
  When you roll a ranger, four stats have a quite high minimum (13 and 14). Hence the better odds to get an epic roll.

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• xLemor Member Posts: 6

  February 2015

  @bengoshi Ty i'll edit that right away
  So far so good, it's way easier than my previous attempts at soloing IWD, this might be my first FULL playthru that i'll succeed.
  I've only completed BG2 and IWD2 before. I'm really enjoying this game so far.

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• kcwise Member Posts: 2,287

  February 2015

  It was the great bard Chuck Norris who said it best:

  In the eyes of a ranger
  The unsuspecting stranger
  Had better know the truth of wrong from right
  
  Cause the eyes of a ranger are upon you
  Any wrong you do, he's gonna see
  
  When you're in Icewind, look behind you
  
  Cause that's where the rangers gonna be

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• Musigny Member Posts: 1,027

  February 2015

  Oh yes, a dual-wielding drummer bard had better know the truth of left from right.

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• CaeDares Member Posts: 182

  February 2015

  Just wondering, how is this a Rant? Lol.

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• xLemor Member Posts: 6

  February 2015

  So far it's really easy, I've made it to the vale of shadows crypt and undead are no problem.
  I got lucky early on and got a girdle of beatification
  

  

  
  I love how thac0 gets so low with just a regular composite longbow
  I just need to get a better armor so i can reduce my AC, i'm still using a studded leather armor from the first town.

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• wubble Member Posts: 3,156

  February 2015

  I advise you get yourself a good mace/hammer at some point to deal with missile/piercing resistant enemies in case your bow doesn't work on them.

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• Skatan Member, Moderator Posts: 5,352

  February 2015

  I agree with @wubble, though you will be able to kill most undead with your sheer machine-gun abilities even if they resist piercing. My archer constantly scouted ahead and killed of most things herself, even in undead infested areas, at low levels due to insane THAC0 and good APR progression.
  
  Buy the holder for ammo and the shimmering sash as soon as you can afford it. Good light armors are rare, as you have already realized. The boots of speed will be your friends as well as kiting will be necessary.

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• wubble Member Posts: 3,156

  February 2015

  And buy LOTS of arrows, if you're playing solo you're going to need probably 12,000 for a dungeon. In fact I advise you get the mod which adds quivers as you will spew those arrows out like a first time drinker.

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• xLemor Member Posts: 6

  February 2015

  I just used bg2 tweaks and enabled infinite stacking for ammunitions.
  I've put that run to a pause and im now trying different classes.

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