Best class, favourite class Options

[Baronius]

No this is not a poll, rather a discussion topic.

What is the class you think to be the most powerful in BG2 (and ToB), and what is YOUR favourite class?

As for me, I'm sure that the Sorcerer is the most powerful class in the game. It's also a favourite class of me, I think not only because it is strong but also because the Sorcerer's energy comes from his/her veins... anyway I also like the Conjurer a lot.

[Chevar]

No this is not a poll, rather a discussion topic.

What is the class you think to be the most powerful in BG2 (and ToB), and what is YOUR favourite class?

As for me, I'm sure that the Sorcerer is the most powerful class in the game. It's also a favourite class of me, I think not only because it is strong but also because the Sorcerer's energy comes from his/her veins... anyway I also like the Conjurer a lot.

Actually I've always preferred clerics, or multclass clerics. I like to solo, and I always enjoy tossing a good healing spell or two.

[jastey]

Fighter. I always go as a fighter (or is that fightress? Anyways), chaotic good (and guess which picture I choose for her).
A fighter can defend himself in direct battle, and there happen to be a lot in the game... You need fighters to protect the mages while they cast their spells, otherwise they won't be alive very long.

Take a powerful wapon in one hand, a shield in the other and then into direct battle with the enemy! Not my kind, standing behind and waving the arms...

[igi]

I dont know about most powerful (I dont really care about power gaming, or maximum damage, or anything really), but my favourite is a Mage/Thief - cast pretty looking spells, and you can hide in the shadows to run away too

[Rabain]

Guess my favourite class......Paladin!

I just can't believe the nobility of spirit of these guys!

It's not about power, it's not about magic, it's not about getting things your way:

It's about doing what's right when no one else will!

[Vlasák]

Rabain: exactly, I like the paladin class most as well. imho, very interesting class for role-playing...

[hlidskialf]

CG Sorcerer, hands down. They're like a "boyscout" in that they are always prepared. Actually my favorite class was the custom hack job I did on the sorcerer that I solo'd the game with. "Runic Sorcerer", think norse sorc with a halberd.

[Archmage Silver]

My favourite is a CN conjurer, the classic mad and powerful wizard... seriously, conjurer is one of the best classes in BG's and as I play mages mostly, conjurer fits me well.

[Galactygon]

My favourite class is a cleric/mage. Even better (for both role-playing and practicalness; expecially role-playing) would be a priest of mystra dualled to a mage (perhaps an Abjurer, if it's possible to do a hack or two).

[note: I replied to the wrong thread by sheer accident, so I moved my post to the appropriate thread]

-Galactygon

This post has been edited by Galactygon: Oct 10 2004, 07:22 PM

[SConrad]

Archer and Archer.

I had an individual body-count of >1000 with a 6-ppl party before finishing SoA. Do I need say more?

[Aldeth the Fo...]

I think the answer to this completely depends on whether or not you are soloing. If you are soloing, I'd have to say a sorcerer, although a wild mage has a lot of potential as well, plus the ability to scribe scrolls to boost his XPs in the early going.

With a party, from a completely powergame perspective, I'd have to say a fighter-theif. It gives you the one class that is lacking in many parties (a fully functional thief) and especially if you are playing something like a half-orc, the backstab potential is nearly limitless. Once you hit ToB, in addition to HLAs of the various traps and use any item, you get assassinate. Assassinate in the hands of a skilled fighter-thief will take down just about anything. You can easily rack up upwards of 500 points of damage in a single round, probably more if you cast improved haste.

[Caedwyr]

My favourite has always been the monk. They tend to go a bit light on the armor, but I love all the immunities you get. At high levels they really know how to dish out the pain without taking it.

That said, monks are probably not the most powerful, that title would fall to the Sorcerer, or a Fighter/Mage/Cleric Multi-class. The F/M/C can be made unstoppable with the variety of self-buffs intended to enhance a mage or cleric and which seriously unbalance the fighter part of the multi-class. Not even demi-liches can harm you.

[Awake]

The best class/kit has to be the swashbuckler. He's so close to a fighter because of THAC0 and AC bonuses, and being able to use more weapons then the average thief. And then there are the 3 slots in dual weapon wielding, which makes the kit even more powerful. Then on top of all this, if the thief wants a weapon, he just steals it. And if the thief can't steal the weapon from that store, they go and steal from other people until they have enough money or items to trade for that weapon or item.

So, simply said, the Swashbuckler is the best kit out there.

[dragon_lord]

I have to agree with Rabain and say that Paladins are my favourite class. Followed very closely by Rangers who I have been playing a lot more lately.... hmm on second thoughts I’ve grown to like Rangers more - I do have a ranger avatar after all.

The most powerful class is a toss up between mages and sorcerers. How can any other class compete with the ability to stop time?

[mysterium]

I think that there are two major types of players one that don't want to deal with magic and the other who love it. I belong to second group - I simply can't imagine fantasy game without it... It is the core thing that distinguish the realms presented in game form historical middle ages (maybe except the monsters...). For instance, even if Forgotten Realms have land of Cormyr, the game in it, I think, would be SO boring. Despite Minsc's extraordinary representaion of berserkers and their whiches form this land, lack of magic and trust in the might of physical strenght - destroys whole spirit of what the true fantasy should be in my feeling. Thus going back to the theme of this topic my favorite clas is of course dual class thief (swashbuckler) and mag, if there is XP Cap remover I shell even say that you can try to play multiclass thief/mag. Thief class is simply forced by terrible lack of any good thief in the game - some mods of course provides us with new characterws but still there is hard choice - as long as for me and in addition it gives possibility to use sweet katanas by mag (heh nice dual with weapons for example with long sword or scimitar (tripple damage) on tenesers spell - can be VERY productive - it simpluy rules (huh I probably misspeled this one also). Secondary, the dual thief mag, because of enormous power of mag in higher levels with HLA abilities is so enormous that excpet boss battles it don't need any help to go through maps (thus disarming traps, instead of keeping thief all the time behind is VERY useful). Secondary I really think that mags, or better mag specialist are better then sorcerers. First they are maybe slower in developing magic skills but variety of spells makes them VERY elastic and useful, some situations force to use new tactics (especially after instalation of Weimer's Tactic mod), and variety of spells that mag class represents can help many times - and prepare perfect sets of spells against particular creatures like in Planar Sphere in hell (cold spells) or thesame in Marching mountains - the ares in which mostly used fire spells are useless and different magic is quite handy. As long as I attempt to play BG2 again, I think that this time I'll make kenesai/mag dual class. In addition to possibility to fight with fighter weapon the kai plus tesner plus all mag spells to help plus improoved speed (and some item that adds attcaks per round form mods) can make a real killing machine with skil to use time stop destroy anyt protection and use deadly swords against enemy.... Ahhh just love it:) What would you say guys on sth like this (despite my lack of english skills - )

[Baronius]

The ability to cast Time Stop for a character with a very good THAC0 and a powerful weapon, means a formidable power. I played the game with a Kensai/Mage (or Fighter/Mage?) long time ago, having high proficiency in War Hammer.
Man, Time Stop + Crom Faeyr [+ Protection from Magical Weapons] is simply powerful.

You're very right about the importance of magic in these games. I also belong to the afore-mentioned second group.
It's another question that I find many things in BG2 too forced, too "unrealistic". But this belongs to another topic; its relevant part is the spell-dumping: tons of new spells, ridiculous protection-removal spells and so on. BG1 was better in this respect.

[SirChet]

Hi all:
My favorite.......Paladin, it's just not right to fight evil without one.
Most powerful....Sorcerer with a gamer that knows how to use it, though an epic level Paladin is a force to be reckoned with.

[Lord Ernie]

I agree with the second group here: Sorcerer, hands down. The sorcerer implementation of BG2 is even a bit overpowered. While fighters and Archers especially get more kills overall, it's in the big, hard battles that mages shine.

[Sikret]

As for the most powerful class I agree with Baronius that sorcerer stands in the first rank, provided that the player chooses his spells thoughtfully.

My most favourite single class characters (I am not considering new kits here, otherwise my list could be a tad different):
- Sorcerer
- Mage
- Stalker
- Berserker
- Barbarian


My most favourite dual-class characters:
- Berserker-thief
- Berserker-druid

This post has been edited by Sikret: Dec 24 2005, 12:04 PM

[Moongaze]

I try them all out once in a while, but my most frequent are...

Single class:

-Cleric
-Ranger
-Barbarian
-Monk
-Thief
-Bard

Multi-class/Dual-class:

-Cleric/Mage (multi)
-Fighter/Mage (dual)
-Fighter/Thief (dual or multi)
-Cleric/Thief (multi)

Kits:

-Cavalier
-Undead Hunter
-Priest of Helm
-Priest of Lathander
-Swashbuckler
-Skald
-Berserker
-Sylvan Mystic
-Adventurer
-Knight Templar
-Knight Hospitaller
-Hellion

For now. I'm sure I'll try out more stuff later.