Misc. Questions on Difficulty, Party Composition, and Spell Selection Options

[nataben1314]

It seems as though, judging from another and not having actually played the mod yet (waiting for v4), that mages are now in a situation where they are used almost totally for dispelling, immuning other characters, and creating summons. Would those in the know (esp. sikret/thetruth) agree with that? I'm not trying to imply that this is necessarily a negative if true, I'm just interested for the sake of future spell and party selection

Speaking of party selection, do you think I'd be making things too hard for myself to make a party of single-class characters? I've always disliked multiclasses unless soloing, and am not too keen on having a party full of five fighter/x's and one ranger/cleric.

And on difficulty, I wonder if it would be possible to make a rough difficulty guide for the quests of chapters 2 and/or 6? What I envision is something like e.g. "windspear hills: level 9-13 minimum" or whatever. With all the new content its difficult for me to know which are the easier quests and which are the ones best left to chapter 6. And for a player of my (low) skill level, it is difficult to determine if you are losing a fight due to wrong tactics, or due to the fact that you're simply too low of a level for that fight. So a general quest difficulty guide (at least for chapters 2/6 where the game is not very linear, and maybe a minimum avg. level before going off to spellhold) would likely save me much frustration and/or lots of me making HELP threads

thanks, and I can't wait until v4.

[nataben1314]

So if both backstab and archery aren't very effective in IAv4, what sort of ranger would be recommended? I mean stalker is mainly good for backstab, archer obviously for archery, and beastmaster just sucks! Provided that I don't really do dualclass, does that mean that R/C is really the most sensible choice for a protagonist?

[thetruth]

So if both backstab and archery aren't very effective in IAv4, what sort of ranger would be recommended? I mean stalker is mainly good for backstab, archer obviously for archery, and beastmaster just sucks! Provided that I don't really do dualclass, does that mean that R/C is really the most sensible choice for a protagonist?

Yes. R/C is without doubt the most powerful from the Ranger classes.

Though the Stalker and the Archer are not useless. Their special abilities are less effective against the most powerful enemies but they are still very useful in a party.

Even the pure Ranger is not a bad choice.
That Armor of Faith + Hardiness + Defender of Eastheaven make him a good tank, better than a Fighter class f.e..