Back, after 14 years Options

[Shadan]

Hi there!

I haven't been here in last 14 years... I've just completed BG3 on tactical with vengeance paladin, and old NPCs in BG3 (like Jaheira, Minsc and Viconia (sadly I had to kill Viconia ) brought back my memories about BG2 and great IA times, so thanks to a sudden urge, I searched on internet and was suprised to see IA is still living and V7 came out, and compatible with EE.
I am thinking on relearning game again, and playing 1-2 IA runs... I have lot of time nowadays...
I've tried to remember what kind of parties did I have in old times.
I remember my start with IA V3.2, gnome F/I protagonist, blade bard (or Hear'Dalis) with his incredible spin, inquisitor with insane dispel (all 3 were nerfed later), usual B->Cleric etc.
I don't really remember to my other runs, just as a V6 playtester I played with necro protagonist and Cernd was my main healer instead of usual R or B -> Cleric.
My last V6 run was melee heavy party: vagrant protagonist, riskbreaker, berserker, swashie, usual R->Cleric, Necro.
As far as I remember, sorcerer, or double sorcerer were also great in the team.

Now, I see in V7 some other NPCs and suclasses are buffed, rebalanced. I am a little clueless about protagonist and party composition. As far as I see new rog NPC is good, also Mazzy is buffed to hell. So any recommendation is welcome on this topic (and on weapon proficiencies).

I am still playing my 2nd BG3 run (honor mode, but more than 1 save ) with a bard. When I finished this, maybe I start an IA run. Nowadays I have less patience, and I am getting bored in things easily, so I am not sure if I will have a strength and patience for IA, but I will see it.

Cheers,
Shadan

[critto]

However I was not able to install EoU beacuse it missed dialog.tlk from BG EE directory, so I used TA again.

The issue here is that EoU is shipped with an old version of weidu that has no idea what BG2:EE is. You need to give it the most modern version. Weidu is supposed to update all the binaries in a folder to the most recent version if you put all mods together first. But if it doesn't you can always copy-paste the newer version (for example, the one shipped with IAv7) and rename it into setup-Ease.exe or whatever its name is.

I would like to include a sorcerer but I don want custom this time and sadly Nalia can't be sorcerer neither wild mage.

Why not keep Imoen as a sorceress? You will still have to sub someone as Kensai instead of Yoshimo when he leaves. And you need to have someone as RB before you get to Imoen. Are those going to be custom chars? In that case you can switch the roles around and just have Neera and Imoen in their respective default roles.

Another question: Should I play EE on core, shouldn't I? No need on normal, and not possible on herder than core?

Core is the same as in the old vanilla BG2, so go with that (unless you want to have an easier experience, of course).