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.

[thetruth]

@Shaitan

Yes it is a good party.
I wouldn't take Nalia though if you intend to get Imoen later ( no XP to waste ).Aeire and your F/M should be more than enough to cover your party needs for mage spells until that time.

- Your F/M could use Longswords (or even shortswords for Kundane in the off-hand) and Flails.

- For Jaheira Clubs and Scimitars (Belm).

- Hammers for Anomen.

- Flails (for FoA+DoEastheaven) if you take Minsc as a Barbarian.
Also Halberds are a very good choice in IA for the mid-late game.

Also since you asked about a quest-order for IA4, look at the second post of this topic (first page).

[Shaitan]

@Shaitan

Yes it is a good party.
I wouldn't take Nalia though if you intend to get Imoen later ( no XP to waste ).Aeire and your F/M should be more than enough to cover your party needs for mage spells until that time.

- Your F/M could use Longswords (or even shortswords for Kundane in the off-hand) and Flails.

- For Jaheira Clubs and Scimitars (Belm).

- Hammers for Anomen.

- Flails (for FoA+DoEastheaven) if you take Minsc as a Barbarian.
Also Halberds are a very good choice in IA for the mid-late game.

Also since you asked about a quest-order for IA4, look at the second post of this topic (first page).

Ah Sorry guys! I remember why I don't like to play mages... I'll have to go for a R/C instead using both flails and hammers I'll put in Kivan (Archer Ranger) instead of Anomen, otherwise I still use Nalia, Arie, Jaheira & Minsc. I noted that Sikret and thetruth recommend R/C multi and R/C is AFAIK also good for extra quests/materials.

Regards

[thetruth]

Ah Sorry guys! I remember why I don't like to play mages... I'll have to go for a R/C instead using both flails and hammers I'll put in Kivan (Archer Ranger) instead of Anomen, otherwise I still use Nalia, Arie, Jaheira & Minsc. I noted that Sikret and thetruth recommend R/C multi and R/C is AFAIK also good for extra quests/materials.

Regards

It's still a good party, though I have to say that the F/M would make your life much easier, especially in the difficult battles of late game.

You could always make a multi-F/M or you could take HaerDalis (sort of F/M but with awful THACO if you don't exploit the singing-Mislead clones cheese).

I had HaerDalis in my IA party and he was very useful in the tough battles of the mod (I didn't have a F/M).
Timetraps and Improved Bard song were very useful later.

EDIT: But then there is little Aerie that can be really powerful with the right buffs, so you can even leave your party as it is now.

This post has been edited by thetruth: Apr 21 2007, 09:22 PM