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[Hideous the W...]

I have the hardest time finishing BG/TOB! I always get tired of my parties and want to start anew. The farthest I've made it in IA is to the Twisted Rune. This will be my 4th run through v5: The 1st I had tons of reloads, was frustrated as heck but made it to the aforementioned TRune. The 2nd I did better, a lot less reloading but up to 8 or 10 on some of the harder battles. I think my last fight on that one was with the Chromatic Demon. Then for my 3rd try I tried out Sikret's party in his journal and I have to say I only had 3 reloads going into the Planar Sphere(not counting the dozen with Faldorn ) but I'm already sick of Anomen and Nalia. I just don't like using what is popular at the moment, and it seems Anomen, a Berserker, a Vagrant, a Sorceror and Nalia are mainstays in quite a few parties.

On this attempt at finally going all the way I'm going to take:

Protagonist - Fighter/Druid
custom - Wizard Slayer ?Dwarf?
Edwin
Viconia
Haer D'alis
Korgan

I think I'm getting the hang of things but this party will be a little tougher than Sorceror/Vagrant etc. I think. What I need help deciding is if a Dwarf is okay for my Wizard Slayer and what weapons he should take. Also money may be a problem. I'm not a heavy role player so I'm not sure about what I'll do about Rep. Should I install the low rep discount, screw rep and just power game, or hover around average and just pay a ton of money for things.

So if you were to be given this party what would you strive to obtain and what would you watch out for.

Thanks

[Hideous the W...]

Well I started last night with my intended F/D protag and Dwarf WS. The F/D will be using clubs(Treefolk Arm?) and scimitars(Belm, Kachiko's Wakazashi for +3), later Impaler like you mentioned Kerkes. The WS has points in flail, long sword and 2 weapon style to go with FoA/Phosphorus and various long swords. I skipped installing the low rep discount as well. I'll just keep my rep around 15ish. There's not a lot I want to buy anyway, most things are forged or found.

I hurried my way on out of the city skiping Suna's party. I also picked up Nalia and Korgan as well as Jan and Viconia from the Gov District. Once I got to Trademeet I dropped Jan for Cernd. My, my...Auramasters are very good in the early stages of the game.

On to fight Faldorn. My only other time fighting her was with a non-spellcaster so I was surprised at her 1st spell choice this time. After one reload I managed to beat her but I was very close to dying...if it weren't for a summoned nymph healing me I think I might have.

Next major battle was Suna Sei, which went extremely well. I remember seeing a screenshot someone posted here of 80% of that party taking a nap. That's how mine went. I'm gonna miss Cernd.

I'll most likely post how things are going to keep me going toward my goal of finishing the whole damn thing.