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[Shaitan]

So I've made ready my line up for a game with ver. 4,3 installed. Rather I've two lineups:

The first will be with a party consisting of:
Me T->C dual hammer/maces or hammer or flail
Jaheira (romance) dual scimitar/club
Keldorn two handed
Valygar dual katanas?
Nalia->Immy Shortbow
Xan ?

The second will be:
me F/M dual long swords / flail or hammer?
Ariella (custommade T->C) Slings
Jaheira (romance - what a surprise) dual scimitar/club
Valygar dual katanas?
Kivan Longbow
Nalia->Immy Shortbow

Don't know yet wich to choose... thus I would like some opinions.

I'll have the following mods:
Kelsey SoA+ToB
Allison
Kivan
Xan
Auren
Enhanced BG2
Dungeon Crawl
Tower of Deception
BanterPacks
something from EoU
and ofcourse IA

What say you?

[lroumen]

I don't really see a problem for min/maxing a ranger/vagrant.

Ranger requirements are 13/13/14/3/14/3 (iesdp: abclasrq, 3 comes from race minimum). To have enough points to max the primary stats above 13 or 14 you need to get an 18 in intelligence for your roll (may take 30 seconds or something to roll that). The 18-3=15 points from intelligence can be distributed to str/dex/con for a final score of 18/18/19/3/14/3. Since you always have some extra points in the other stats if you roll 18 for intelligence (say you roll 14 dex and 7 cha as well = 5 points), you can probably have intelligence around 8-9 or even higher (18/18/19/9/14/3).

A vagrant would be 13/13/14/3/14/12 requirements and with a roll of 18 intelligence, the points can be distributed to 18/18/19/3/14/12. It looks much better than having 2 stats set to 3. The same thing applies as above, that if you have 14 dex and 7 cha with 18 int, then the vagrant can have 18/18/19/8/14/12, or distribute it to wisdom and end up with 18/18/19/4/18/12.

Not really that hard. I usually roll paladins (min is 12/3/9/3/13/17, so only look at dex>15 and int>15 during rolling) and rangers to 90+ points within a minute if I only look at the lowest minimum scores. Then you can use that to distribute all those points to other stats.


I think that if the minimum requirements for str/dex/con are lower than 13/13/14 for a vagrant (put the minimum for vagrants at 12/9/9/0/14/12 for instance), then the min/maxing is more difficult because you also need to get lucky rolls for these three stats to offset the low base stats because you cannot make that up with only a roll of 18 in charisma.



As you can see I know how to get my scores maxed easily in BG . Generally though, I only max out dexterity and my primary casting requirement. The other stats are not that important since there are spells and enhancing gear you can pick up along the way. If I am to make a vagrant the scores will likely be 17/18/16/9/14/12 or something alike.

I will play IAv5 with a lot of enjoyment I'm sure. I don't really mind that I'm missing a few quests here or there, there is probably plenty of new content since I played v2, so I'm in for enough surprises along the way. I will hardly notice that I cannot forge Judgement Day on this first run through. I will just do so in the next one .