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I'm right in the middle of a playthrough right now, and I'm drawn in a bit harder than this game has gotten me before. I've never completed it, bit I'm going to this time. I always start theory crafting my next build at this point in any game though.

My next Watcher will be a Shield Bearer of St. Elcga who ironically will not bear a shield. The plan is to boost int to start with 18ish int and stand behind the tanks to poke with a pike, probably Tall Grass.

I'll use Zealous Endurance, and Inspiring Triumph to provide defensive boosts on top of what the Order provides.

I like to have 2 tanks, but in this case I think I can build them more a bit more offensively because of all the bonuses

I've never beaten any of these with a druid CHARNAME, so I'm exploring some options for my next run:

Kensai dual to druid at 7 or 8(normal), fighter dual to Totemic at 7 (requires eekeeper), or fighter/totemic multi (eekeeper)

I don't particularly like druids as full casters, so some fighter makes sense. I just can't decide on what flavor I'll land on. I initially wanted Kensai/Totemic, but I didn't know that wouldn't really be possible as I don't actually have any experience using eekeeper.

In either case, I'll be leaving on quarterstaves as my main melee weapon because I've never gone that direction either. A dual would allow me to get grandmastery if I play it right.

What sounds most

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I love full 6 person parties. Lots of personalities, lots of item usage, lots of inventory space.

Every play through I try to mix up what my standard party formation is at least slightly, only to end up back at the good ol six pack.

How do you like you party to line up when clicking around the map?

I'm indecisive.

I'm mostly done with SoD on my 7 necro/ x cleric. I didn't get to carry over my robe of the evil archmagi from bg1 because I forgot to grab it from my storage before killing Sarevok. I hadn't yet finished the dual class at that point so I was wearing plate. I was wearing a knaves robe until I picked up the elven chain in SoD.

Once I hit BG2 I'll probably wear the robe of vecna, because obviously, but I do really like AC so I may keep that elven chain handy.

Honestly, that's the only thing I know for sure. Amulet of power I guess is pretty obvious too.

There are a lot of gloves, rings, and other items I can't remember since I haven't played BG2 in a long time. What othe

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I've recently been playing through the original Baldur's Gate on the Enhanced Ed., and I'm currently in Siege of Dragonspear so I'll be on to BG2 before I know it.

I started as a necromancer and dual classed to cleric at level 7, so I've got a decent amount of mage spells but I'm a lot more cleric than mage. The character is on the evil side but not a murder hobo. More mercenary than anything, and toys with matters of both life and death.

I'm really enjoying it and I want to try to replicate it on some other CRPGs this Summer so I'm looking for some recs.

My first thought since I'm a old Bioware fan is Dragon Age Origins. That's an easy one. I'm curious if it would be possibl

Hey r/baldursgate

I've read several times you shouldn't have much trouble hitting the exp cap in BG1 simply by making sure you hit all the areas, including the Tales of the Sword Coast content.

I'm at the beginning of chapter 7 insofar as I escaped the Candlekeep Catacombs, but I immediately went and completed Durlag's after. I've arrived at Ulgoth's Beard at about 120k exp. I think there are 2 areas of the world map I haven't fully explored, one of which is the ankheg area north of FAI.

Can I really expect to hit the cap at this point? More than anything I want to get to about 160k to regain my necromancer levels since I dual classed at 7.

We have a 2013 Spark, and a while back we started experiencing what appears to be the same actuator issue I've see a lot of posted on this sub. When unlocking the car it automatically locks itself.

Well we never addressed it and now we cannot open the doors at all, even with the physical key. It may or may not be related to the other issue.

What are we looking at here? The key should always unlock it right? It won't budge.

So I wanted to give the necro/cleric dual a try since I've never really made a character like it before. The -2 penalty to saves seems like it could be fun come BG2.

I made a small oversight in that I chose neutral evil as my alignment, so Holy Blight is now off the table. Now I'm only a few hours in so I'm not too invested, but I'm going to roll with it.

So for the exact split, I often see people suggest dual from 2 necro, but without Holy Blight I can't really take advantage of any necromancy Priest spells in BG1. The use case for Unholy Blight is just too narrow for what I have planned I think.

With that in mind, how far into necromancer should I go before taking the dual class? 5 w

This post is just as much a series of questions as anything else. I don't think I have answers that no one else has gleaned (hehe).

Among all the differences between our three worlds, the one I haven't seen discussion on is the separate religions. I think they might play a pivotal part in the story moving forward. In some ways, they already have, but there is much to be revealed.

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Let's start with Res. Religion is important enough to Caten society to have it represented as an equal to both Governance and Military as far as the Hierarchy pyramid structure goes.

Caten has a pantheon of gods representing different domains, led by Jovan. They are ingrained in much of what we see.

Most of my gaming time in adolescence was spent on BG1 and 2, or the MMO Everquest. When I think of certain archetypes translated into games, these two franchises heavily influenced how I think of them. In this case, how they designed the Shaman in classic EQ still sticks with me. There's no clean 1-to-1 analog of the EQ Shaman in BG3 (certainly not without mods), so this is my attempt at recreating one.

NOTE - This isn't supposed to be a crazy strong character. It's a themed support type that will absolutely have some weaknesses.

KIT DESCRIPTION

The Shaman was a Priest type character and worked as a healer, buffer, and debuffer.

Their best heals were heal over time/regeneration s

As the title suggests, I want to play BG1EE as one class, and dual at the first opportunity in BG2EE.

What combo would you choose/recommend? I probably won't do ToB, but it's on the table at least. Poor low level kits like Kensai don't dissuade me.

I'm doing a "spider" themed run where all my party members have something at least a little spidery about them. A couple are obvious, the others less so.

I've been planning on recruiting Minthara to be my "Jumping Spider "/ Champion of Lolth with the initial idea just being 11 champion / 1 war cleric. I specifically want Champion because the name of the subclass, and the jumping bonus at level 7. I'll also pick up the Athlete feat.

I've toyed with the idea of going more cleric levels for Guided Strike, and maybe Aid since I don't have any other clerics. But if I'm going to give up Improved Extra Attack for anything, I might as well go 5 levels in cleric right? Spirit Guardians is obviou

So I would like to finally get She Cannot Be Caged.

On my current honor run, I rescued Sazza from the grove, but when talking with Gut after I got her alone she was able to call for help since initiative didn't go my way. Now the whole camp is hostile.

If I just knock out Sazza does she work like Minthara and will still appear alove in Moonrise?

Thanks.

I'm feeling like running a spider themed party. Most of it is pretty straight forward, and I'm sure you can guess a couple of the builds. The last slot is what I'm calling the Sword Spider. No mods.

In essence, it will end up as a mystic scoundrel melee swords bard using hold person/monster depending on level split. Where I'm waffling is what other classes I need to get the playstyle I want.

I'll be 100% content if most encounters involve this character sitting invisible until they can maneuver in for a likely killing blow, even if that means staying out of combat until the right opportunity. Sometimes they would cast a control spell, but before mystic scoundrel that's less of a priority.