Why dont druids get love?
NightmareWraith
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So I got an extremely good stat roll on my druid 94 so pretty much everything is maxed but int and charisma but druids have it so damn easy escaping irenicus dungeon.
I did it with the druid alone and did not rest a single time and I cleared the entire place as well and it only took me like 20mins.
Any other character I've taken the full team (everyone in the dungeon) and have had to rest like 18 times and that's with only doing the absolutely necessary things and it takes me an hour to an hour and a half. (Yeah I'm a really shit player)
Druid is ridiculous, woodland beings + flame blade + bless + iron skins is awesome, oh and the summon snake from totemic druid
I did it with the druid alone and did not rest a single time and I cleared the entire place as well and it only took me like 20mins.
Any other character I've taken the full team (everyone in the dungeon) and have had to rest like 18 times and that's with only doing the absolutely necessary things and it takes me an hour to an hour and a half. (Yeah I'm a really shit player)
Druid is ridiculous, woodland beings + flame blade + bless + iron skins is awesome, oh and the summon snake from totemic druid
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Me? I don't like the evolution of their character concept into the tree-hugging, environmentalist party spokesman for D&D.
Give me occultists who perform human sacrifices for dark, mystical powers used to manipulate ignorant people near their vile henge; or members of an ancient scholastic order driven to guide the world from infancy to maturity by secretly leaking predetermined bits of knowledge into the populace; or hermits who discovered an unknown shrine of power in the farthest reaches of the wilderness away from civilization, driven mad by isolation and their rabid pets to protect it from intruders at all costs; or healers, immersed from birth in the traditions of a lonely temple, who have sworn an oath to travel the expanses of the mountains for lost strangers to save; or shapeshifting savages viewed as no better than animals who terrorize the local farmers in packs and feed on the blood of their livestock.
Let's keep political tree-hugging away from the gaming table.
When I play druid, I feel like my Charname is not progressing at all for half the game.
And once you reach 3M exp you'll have more spells than any cleric.
@mashedtaters yeah I'd like that kinda thing but everything has to be politically correct according to society.
Does the gap become smaller again after level 15?
@JuliusBorisov oh nice having a read through that, how do you check the immunities of the pets that you mention in the beginning of the thread, I right click the summons but no window pops up like with the other skills
I just had a really funny moment, I just finished summoning a nymph and the enemy charmed me, but then the nymph instantly cast domination on me and I got control back straight away.
You can also check the stats with the NearInfinity.
Ah ok cool, and wow looks like the spirit wolf becomes really strong with level drain and hold... Maybe I should start using it instead of Just the snake and lion, and man they have a lot of immunities...
Screenie from old save
Chromatic Orb -> various uses depending on level culminating in a potentially instant kill shot.
Web - > Powerful disabling spell particularly useful when used in conjunction with ranged attacks / spiders / spider form or any combatant with free action / cloudkill ...there are countless uses.
Lightning -> powerful damage spell just gotta be careful or stack up some electrical resistances which are easy to come by.
Improved invisibility -> Immunity to spellcasters improved AC
Chaos -> Powerful crowd control potentially turning enemies on each other and disables spellcasters.
Also instead of creating a new thread I saw that an item called Staff of Arundal can only be gotten from a merchant that only appears if you preordered the game, seeing as I never new about the EE until long after it was released is it possible to buy the guy as a dlc or something?
Staff of Arundel and other items from bonus merchants are in BG2EE, no additional DLC or a mod are needed.
Holy shit that nijato is OP extra attack plus poison....
Whoops I had meant chaos I got no idea why I said chaotic commands....
Malison never misses there is no saving throw though MR does apply.
You think they're strong in BG?
How about having an elemental/dragon/dinosaur companion, turning into an elemental/dragon/dinosaur, summoning more elementals and being able to fully cast spells in Wild Shape?
Yeah, Druids are one-man armies.
Make sure to play NwN2 with Kaedrin's pack mod to get a taste of 3.5E Druid's power, because they're weak in vanilla.
No T-Rex form, though. But you get Dragon Shapes and Dragon Companions.
Also use the Circle of Eight mod for ToEE to get the most out of it.
But yeah, Druids and Clerics are called CoDzillas (Cleric or Druid Godzilla) in 3.5E PnP for a reason.
I'll give ToEE a try though
Call Lightning can be utterly devastating at nearly every point in the game, but Shadows of Amn does not take place outdoors for the most part, so unfortunately you lose a bit of potency in that regard. Storm of Vengeance is great fun when you get it, and I have no doubt that there are a variety of strategies that make them quite deadly. Personally, I don't run with less than a party of 6, and so the game is never an insurmountable challenge, therefore, in the spirit of variety being the spice of life, I never worry too much about class effectiveness when picking my party.
One concern I do have is the absolutely mad XP gap between level 13-14, which is surely an oversight on somebody's part, as is evidenced by the crazy amount of spell slot gains that a Druid makes at level 14.
But my main concern is this: if you play a kitted Druid as your protagonist, does your class name still change to 'Great Druid' if you win the stronghold?
Question with BG2 how do I revert stat screen to the old UI, I don't like the new one especially with how small the section that shows all the buff is.
I haven't had a look at the mod section to deeply, but from the little I've looked using mods requires replacing of files which makes me extremely nervous (I'm autistic) is the a mod installer that does it all? Otherwise I'll just have to put up with the UI...