Current Charname class?

3 years ago by The Wandering Bard to c/baldursgate

What’s everybody playing at the moment?

My current Charname is a Bard using the Blade kit on BGEE iOS and I have to say I’m really enjoying him!

I made my actual DnD character. In tabletop he's a high charisma low intelligence wizard that uses a transmog ring to look like an old man. Focuses are char, wisdom, deception and persuasion. He sucks in a fight, but generally can B.S. enough to get out of the fight. He goes by the name Jerry Atric

Ultimately it's hard as hell to play on BG

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The_Wandering_Bard 2 points 3 years ago

Haha I really like that as a character concept! I can imagine its absolutely solid to play in BG though!

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Underwaterbob 2 points 3 years ago

Level 1 Human Kensai, Name: Fiorea. 18/70 - 18 - 18 - 18 - 7 - 14! I rolled that in 2019, stopped playing, and picked up the game again yesterday. I've never finished 1 or 2, but I have played quite a bit of both. I'm hoping to get all the way through both this time. My buds and I are starting a coop run of 3 this weekend.

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The_Wandering_Bard 1 point 3 years ago

Those are some pretty potent stats you rolled there!

What pips did you go for?

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Underwaterbob 2 points 3 years ago

Not sure honestly. It was so long ago. I played a couple of hours this morning, but I never bothered to check. She's wielding a battle axe and a bastard sword and does hefty damage. I managed to get to Neshkel from Beregost and to whack Neira pretty handily third try. The first two attempts, she managed to get her hold persons off and prevented me from doing any damage before slowly offing my party.

As a side note: it's pretty great on Steam Deck. There's a controller configuration that makes everything easily accessible, and the track pads do a decent mouse impression. I'm enjoying it more than I expected to given my spotty history with it. Dunno why I've always bounced off Baldur's Gate. I played a lot of Icewind Dale back when it came out and had no trouble finishing just about everything you can do in that one.

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The_Wandering_Bard 1 point 3 years ago

Battle axe and a bastard sword sounds like a quick way to turn people into mincemeat haha.

She's a pain if she gets those hold persons off and to stick. I've found two good ways to deal with her - 1. Have yourself a cleric in the party before you deal with her, they can fire off command and put her down quicker than she can cast hold. 2. Stick an oil of speed on someone with a fast weapon to try and get the interrupt (even better if you can use a potion of invisibility on Monty or Imoen and then oil of speed to get a backstab in as well). think in this play I used offensive spin on my blade to get the haste effect and interrupt her casting, if I remember correctly.

I never played them back in the day, picked them (BGEE, BG2EE, IWD and Planescape Torment) up for iPad during Covid lockdown as I spotted them and they were on sale.

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Underwaterbob 2 points 3 years ago

She's got two battle axes now that I picked another one up and noticed I have two points in axes, and two in dual wielding.

I just offed Mulahey this morning. I was probably a bit underleveled since I more-or-less went straight there. I had to reload a few times to get him. Minsc kept getting Rigid Thinkinged. I'll probably backtrack for a while now and get some experience finishing up chapter 1 and 2 quests and exploring more of the countryside.

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