AC is far from useless in ToB, you can make everyone miss you on anything else than a critical hit without a shield, you just need to stack it. Get to -26 base AC then throw Improved Invisibility + P… (View Post)

Barbarians are good but nothing amazing, they'll have a bad AC and their damage resistances aren't the best. Plus you only get to be a tank in the last part of the game when you have HLAs. (View Post)

To complete what @semiticgod said: 3: HoF doubles XP and it stacks with the Insane difficulty modifier, which means you will get XP*4 + 2000 (which is why you only get XP*2 + 1000 in Nightmare Mode, … (View Post)

It's just 18 more HP. Remember you only roll the first 9 hit dices as a Fighter. Having 138 HP instead of 120 barely change anything. 298 instead of 280 is only cosmetic. My opinion is that Barbarian… (View Post)

I think you have a lot more chance to survive a no-reload run than that, especially in a party where you won't need to cast more than a few spells per fights. Soon enough, no wild surges will be able… (View Post)