Well, I'm currently with

Auramaster (PC)
Minsc (Berserker)
Jaheira
Jan Jansen
Sibel

We're at 500k exp or so. Berserker Minsc is awesome. Will drop everyone else besides Sibel though later on. Rotating crew in the beginning, as I always have.

Sibel can be played in three forms:

Swashbuckler -> Cleric

Swashbuckler -> Fighter

Pure Swashbuckler

What did you do? Did you dual-class her?

Dualled to Cleric immediately, so level Swasgbuckler 9 / Cleric

She'll regain Thieving powers in after we reach 100k more, then we can drop Jan Jansen and pickup Neera (Wildmage, I guess).

Edit: A little bit of background

I dislike two similar characters in the crew. So that's why no avenger. My crew will be centered around the protagonist, whom we should be able to develop into ridiculously op levels.

Talk to Crazy Celvan in Docks district a few times until he speaks.

He gives out a few riddles, but I'm not sure what I'm to take out of this?

He tells poems about your companions and has one about Sibel too.

That's the "canonical" choice, she gains the most out of this combination, though she's also amazing as a Swash=>Fighter dual class.

What do you think of the new Wizard Slayer. Seems to have a lot of neat little perks especially with the ability of "Purge Magic" but no ability to be Haste/Improved Haste is definitely a big deal

Are you asking me, Sikret or SparrowJacek?

Forgot to quote you, but hey open to all

Well, seems like it's in consideration now. I think you need to balance everything and for some party compositions seems like a great choice!

But since Mazzy looks comprehensively OP, I'm taking her for this partial run that I'm doing.

And I have Sibel, so high level dispels we have even without an Inquisitor / Wizard Slayer.

The new Wizard Slayer kit is a well-balanced combination of very important disadvantages and very useful advantages:

- She is immune to haste and improved haste. She usually engages in battle with delay when other warriors are already engaged. Two handed weapons will help so that she can hit from behind others when the enemy is already surrounded. When you tell her to attack an enemy who is in distance it takes her a lot of time to reach the target. This is sort of frustrating.

- She has abysmal saving throws (because she can't use protection items such as rings and cloaks), which means you need to buff her with chaotic commands and free action and refresh them if they get dispelled.

But...

- She is also immune to slow, which means her speed won't get wrose than what it is.

-She gains innate magic resistance, magic damage resistance and fire resistance with level up.

- She gains awesome innate abilities such as Tower of Resilience, Undo Constructs (vs. golems) and Purge Magic.

- She also has a special item (usable only by Wizard Slayers) that you need to find during the game (no spoilers will be provided about its location). And if you have Sibel mod installed, the new artificer (Lady Elowen) can upgrade that item for you.

Overall: If you cope with her weaknesses early game, you will be rewarded middle and end game.

Yeah I figured the early game would be rough going, didn't know about the special item (nor a new person that can upgrade items) So might try it on the first v7 play through

The new maps are stunning!

How can I climb the tree?

I think i have so far figured this this out.

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Speak with Animals spell is not required, though I don't see why it should interrupt the quest. Can you explain what happened in detail? What happened after you cast the spell?

There's a cat on the ne corner of the map.

If I cast speak with aniamls on it Sibel says "I will not tolerate any harm done to the innocent folk of my village, charname"

and then we get teleported out without Sibel & the quest finishes.

oh,

what does tristan's blessing do? Is it supposed to do something? (edit: it does work if the intended effect is SPOILER!
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Any hints on the location? City is quite a big place !

Just tested and I can confirm that this bug exists.

Critto, my guess is that S!shost.bcs is the culprit. Can you check?



Permanent +1 to Wisdom



Location of what?

Yes, it is. I will devise the fix some time during the week, we'll ship it with the next update, since this isn't a critical issue.


The cat can be talked to without the spell (which might be an oversight, but I'll think about it separately). Thanks for the bug report.

Whatever Howard hides

We intentionally made it so that the animals in this area do not require Speak with Animals spell, because the party may not have a druid or a ranger. It was not an oversight.

We just need to fix S!shost.bcs so that the spell is not considered a hostile action.



No hints except what you chose (city vs. dungeon).

Should have picked dungeon .

Here's some general feedback so far:

- New areas look superb!
- Buried Ambitions is nicely spread out (hace 2 clues so far)
- Sibel's quest (or initial one I assume) was great!
- New monsters!!
- Updated & renewed graphics for monsters are very nice!
- Bottomless bags of holding would be nice, we tend to run out of space quite fast

There's still one more left. It's accessible in ch2-3, if you haven't found it – means you haven't explored well enough ;-) I saw your planned route in the journal thread, don't rush into ch4.


I think the capacity of the main bags (the ones you find in pirate's hideout and the one in spellhold) was actually improved in this release.

Thank you.

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Well, no-one was talking to me anymore so I think I was quite thorough. Didn't try talking to the cat




Any other hints? I'm not rushing to chapter 4, it's just that I'm reaching the exp cap quite soon(ish). I was planning on leaving temple ruins & wk post spellhold. but is that a mistake? Also, I just probably have only today and then there's a longer break .

From info that you provided I am pretty sure that you did everything you could in the village, it's just that some things that you did could be more... optimised


You're gaining your exp awfully fast In my test run I managed to do all "standard" things and even beat Teshal + Samia before getting close to exp cap, without going to WK at all. And as for your question - new Druid Stronghold quest gives a purpose to all Werewolf groups you meet, try to remember where else you can meet such creatures. My hint will be as follows:
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Haha. I have two notes from "dungeons" ... ?

But I guess that's one outside area left. I'll see if I can figure this out.

TheShal is a pretty good fight to clear pre spellhold.

I don't want to spoil too much, but the possibilities have been mentioned already during the discussions here At some point in CH3 (you won't miss it, it happens during the main plot line) you'll get a more direct hint, pay attention to it.

Ok!

I appreciate that! I'll keep an eye out for it.

ok! got the hint. you are right, could have not missed it.

hmh. this changes my plans though. but ok, let's see how this goes.

allright, so found it & defended succesfully. it looks like the next things will do are in next chapters? this correct?

How did you like the SPOILER!
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It worked fine. The attackers are a little bit scattered so we had to actually search for the attackers a little bit, as in running around the map.

The new graphics are awesome (And the new monsters as well!).

Will play through again with more time in the next few days if I have the chance.

I'm super happy Sibel made a level before the fight as those extra spells will come in superbly handy.

Interesting. What was your tactics? Did you stay in the centre of the map (where the encounter begins) or spread out completely?

I played it through twice, but I think I got all. Not sure ofc.

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Must be missing something in Sibel's area

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Have you visited the area where the Elm Tree's roots are? Try to examine them closely.

Well there are several tree roots but I have scanned along them all looking for an action cursor or something to click and nothing...

Hi, Legend!



It is not in the main village area. There is a door you need to pass and go underground.

Ok sorry I'll reside myself to the fact I'm blind, there are 4 doors all of them are locked so where do I need to go to get underground.

go to the

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Regarding the new druid quest

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Yes, this is what happens & I think this was really well arranged!

Also, I guess this should be done before spellhold.

Absolutely.

I finished the druid stronghold before chapter 3 . loving it by the way.
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but I cannot start Sibel quest.
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