Loss of Prot. from Critical in BG2EE 2.5 Options

[tongtian]

Hi, everyone. I'm not sure whether anyone noticed that ioun stones no longer provide prot. from critical anymore in BG2EE 2.5. That might be a huge problem for RB/Kensai/Monk since they can potentially be one-shot by enemies like golems.

I heard that the IA forged items doesn't have this issue, though you can only have Indigo Ioun Stone for warriors. I haven't tested it yet but this means you cannot have more than one warriors in this category if you don't want to be critical hit.

Edit: Tested it carefully again, my RB still get crit hit by my protagonist when wearing pale green ioun stone.

This post has been edited by tongtian: Dec 10 2018, 09:28 PM

[bulian]

This is actually a big nerf. My vote would be to restore critical resistance to ioun stones if they were in fact removed. Note the IA specific items druid crown and thief hood items provide critical hit resistance, which would be debatable from a realism perspective, so ioun stones having that property would be consistent.

Note that the Duerger helm quest item from Ch 5 and Mask of King Strohlm from Fiirkraag's dungeon can be worn by Riskbreakers and mages (and probably kensais) to provide critical hit resistance. Use of the former is probably a bug/exploit.