+3 cursed two-handed sword
yksimalt
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Soloing through the game with a +3 cursed two-handed sword might be fun...
Has anyone tried it?
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Has anyone tried it?
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Hmmm, do you actually get the berzerker rage bonuses in addition to not being able to control your PC?
You just click and go to a groceries' store. Once you're back a chapter is done.
'Fun' includes a broad range of meaning.
Since the sword is cursed and one looses micromanagement of CHARNAME when berserking, one might find situations where he/she runs into traps or areas where more foes await.
Adding a considerable difficulty to the game playthrough.
Picture Durlag's Tower, first cellar level. Ouch!
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And of course, the sword only causes Moral Failure: Berserk, you don't actually get the benefits of a true berserker rage...
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As for roleplay, the haunted warrior is an enjoyable character to play, e.g. Elric and his daemon blade.
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And yes, picking fights around innocent NPCs caused disaster more often than not, when the PC would end up turning on an innocent. I've had to actually play nice and do some good acts every now and then to stop the Flaming Fist from trying to kill me every time I entered a populated area.
But it was worth it for the forest areas alone. I lost count of how many times, after slaying a bandit or monster, my Berserker would turn its blind rage on a squirrel. Epic fights indeed.
Is it as simple as the 1+?
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It's a really good weapon that does nice damage and doesn't have any downside to it, one of the best in the game comboed with other equipment. A Cavalier with Spiders Bane will be really tough to take down and can help tank traps as well as fighting in webbed areas while others help at range away from the traps.
What's nice about it too is that there are two nice party members for Good and Evil aligned parties who even if you don't use two handed swords, they can definitely use Spiders Bane to high effectiveness (and both have super high Strength). Spiders Bane + Boots of Speed is a really good combination.
As for the +3 cursed sword, it suffers major drawbacks that make it pretty much unusable as a primary weapon, much like the +3 cursed spear that appears in the game. Unless you have an extremely specific setup a lot of the cursed equipment in the game was just made almost intentionally unusable, instead of similar to things like unique items in the Diablo games that had strengths as well as weaknesses when you used it.
There's a cursed ring you can buy at a shop in BG1 that is really good (and expensive), but the drawback for it isn't gamebreaking and it can be plenty useful depending who wears it. The upside apart from that ring being really good on it's own, is that it provides extra AC like a protection ring/amulet or whatever but isn't exclusive if you're wearing other protection equipment, so you can equip both it and a Ring of Protection or whatever else you have.
So yeah I just wish the cursed items in the game were made more usable for more than just maybe a battle or two, and the extra +1 damage/THACO isn't worth the drawback with the +3 sword. It's more of a plot based item than something you'd use, but many other cursed items simply don't feel like they have any purpose at all other than to fool you into equipping them if you thought it was a good idea to put it on without identifying it.
It would have been nice to get more equipment in the game that was like that enchanted Halberd that did a lot of damage but allowed you to only make one attack per round. A tactical decision of damage versus attacks per round, pluses and minuses to the weapon and it isn't cursed.
Thanks!
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Thank you!
The fun part of it is partly in setting up combats in situations where the PC does not get dragged into facing impossible odds. It's also partly in the suspense as your character chops down the final enemy and bears down on a helpless villager with sword aloft - will you claim another victim and push your reputation further into the toilet or will you snap out of the rage just in time?
A bit chessy you can get the sword very soon in game. And its one of the strongest weapons in game. But its kind of a boring because you will be stuck with it for the rest of the game (due to lack of better alternatives).