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Nothing is deadlier than a flying, screaming, armed and bloodthirsty gnome or halfling, flying right at the enemy.

Thank you! Absolutely right in Berserker and actually berserking in battle. Logically, you are correct that they shouldn’t be allowed to cast spells while enraged (I feel like Rome Total War nailed this with their berserker units). I like the idea of the exact same thing but naming it differently. For example, in Dragon Ball Z, there were techniques that would have very short term boosts to combat abilities then ended with exhaustion afterwards. That would make more sense than really being Enraged or Berserking.

@Redjoy123 in original AD&D Kits May habe been prohibited from dual classing. I dont think they cared enough for bg1 I personally prefer "being strong" to any "boosts" whatsoever. But i accept that These things work for cinematric purposes:)

@@fredblues7175 Alas, I tested this a while back, it is breakable.

@@Redjoy123 I think keeping the default quarterstaff around for emergencies is a brilliant interpretation of game mechanics. With the benefit of hindsight, I would make both wooden and metallic weapons breakable from the start. Hopefully, it would encourage players to loot and scavenge instead of just gluing a particular weapon type to their hands. Oh boy, another generic dagger dropped but I only use short swords. What's in this crate here? Oh boy, another generic club.

I hate to say it, but I think this was just a Google or Pinterest search. I’m pretty sure if you search for “Human Paladin portrait”, you’ll probably see it in the results. Alas, I don’t really remember where specifically it was. I’m sorry for that.

Oh yes, absolutely heartbreaking but also had user error!

@@AndrewRussell-dz8zy Agreed 👍

Personally, I don't like rng with permanent results. Ironman changes things I suppose, but as a practical matter, the average player will just reload. If it cannot be undone with a rest, rng dependent outcomes suck. Stuff like failing a quest or permanently losing a lot of health due purely to dice rolls isn't fun.

Do you mean “Redjoy keeps going on and on past the point of normal sleep to see how long he lasts on SCS”? I mean, I don’t need exhaustion to make dumb choices. OR do you mean play with a party with no resting? That would actually be kinda funny.

@Redjoy123 why not both?

@@AndrewRussell-dz8zy Stilicho sometimes breaks the rules and throws multiple pila, hence: True Neutral

apr is pretty tough to match, idk if I would ever dual before 9, and I do typically go to 13 on zerker. the enrage isn't really needed more than once, but the apr and hp are beyond valuable in scs insane hardcore runs imo

If you are optimising for BG2 and beyond, you are significantly better off dualling at level 9. If you have the patience, 13 is a bit better, but far less convenient.

Yeah, I think I poo-pooed this combo but I feel like Non-Detection and Mislead are really good in conjunction with Hide in Plain Sight. Shadowdancer to Mage looks great! Good to see that you rocked it and now, maybe, I should shut my filthy loudmouth! LOL!

Thank you so much! You are awesome Fridge!

I think, that is so fighter archers & rogue archers are more clearly a separate topic to handle (by DEVS and their lackeys).

Barbarians and Paladins are great choices! Rangers are just... challenging (except for Stalkers and Archers, they are great!)

That's not bad, the reach is a good point but number of attacks is good too, so I would say for blunt damage that two flails or maces might be a good option too?

That sounds right... <looks it up> Yup! he's one of the Waterdavians who hangs out at Mutamin's Garden... thus he must perish.

Composite bows do not add strength to damage in 2nd edition. They give a static +2 damage. In terms of base stats, with the extra attack per round, it is the best ranged weapon, except maybe slings or throwing weapons with an extremely high strength character. The problem is itemisation. They are fine in BG1 (gets +2 hit and +3 damage as early as a Beregost), but whilst archery in general is gutted in BG2, composite bows get absolutely shafter. Longbows never get +4 ammo and dont even get +3 ammo in Shadow of Amn. That means you simply cannot hit a significant number of enemies. Also, the damage bonuses of the bows suck. Shortbows get an unlimited +3 ammo (albeit very low damage) Bow in trademeet and the most damaging bow in the game with Gesen (averages +4.5 damage and counts as +4 weapon). You get a +1 hit damage and APR shortbow very early on also, which is stronger than any early game longbow. Crossbow is the best bet if you are fine with going to Watchers Keep at the start of SoA just to grab firetooth from the merchant.

True about Dragons (though they're tough for a bum like me!) though I would say that Dragons are more dangerous than Ogres, Elementals, Golems, or Skeletons. You have a good point though, once you dispel them with the right spells, Dragons can be fought. I would say Demonic/Fell isn't a bad choice though, lots of Magic Resistance, Spells, and Immunities. That's good advice for Beastmasters, Slings aren't terrible but just about any other non-metal choices are pretty bad. If my edition knowledge is correct, kits were developed as part of BG2. Editions afterwards used 3.5, which kinda had kits but they were more associated with the different feats and skills taken (such as Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2). I still think that there are plenty of Archers in history who were mercenaries, such as the Italian Crossbowmen or the Free Company Longbowmen, who could be good or evil. I get why they connected D&D Rangers with Aragorn but I'm not fully convinced that they should always be goodie-two-shoes.

@Redjoy123 Oh sry u are right. I totally forgot that kits were already in vanilla BG2. Still, i think i was just laziness because kits are a subgroup of the class and if not all rangers have to be good they would have to split this subgroup up. Reorganize char creation sheet for example. Beginning with the D&D third edition rangers no longer need to be good. So they caught up with that. Evil rangers can choose their own race as favored enemy

@@grimdawn9843 Oh man, that would be great, or just the ability to choose Humans as a favored enemy? Absolutely devastating!

Absolutely! Each Monday we'll have a new class guide!

That's actually really smart, I would strongly recommend taking a high Charisma character to be the face of the party with you (since you won't be chatting with folks if you aren't visible) but this would be great!

Yep, you'll get the XP!

I mean... yes! Why isn't this a thing?

Replay Neverwinter Online, get the Throne of Boo, Minsc as companion, and whatever else that ugly rodent propagated about itself! 🤣 `Even a newbie can hear Minsc shout thru Protector's Enclave, when a character arrives after the tutorial (edge of level 1 to 2)! ´

I would say that this is probably true, but I'd say that just having the two-weapon fighting bonus just for one character seems... silly? You're probably correct though.

me2. I'm a Cavalier in bgee now and try to roleplay as best as I can. It's really fun

@tammo100 I'm going through as an Undead Hunter atm.

Guess what's next week?

Paladin has some spoiler-attitude, but the class is effing impressive!

At what level did you dual?

@Antilluminati Lol I haven't yet but the plan was at 17. I also installed no xp cap.

I'm messing around with all the potential builds on black pits. Trying to do a barb\druid as well. Might not go as desired.

Nice! I feel like this does make sense, even though there's a bit of overlap with the arcane spells. That'd be a very interesting combo, you'll have to let me know how it turns out.

You're absolutely right on the Group AI, I think that was from the golem fight, and I was pretty under leveled. However, gonna give you a bit of pushback when you say I didn't prebuff at all. My party has Prayer and Recitation on there, which was not quite enough (agreed there) but I'm not sure what more Protection from Evil 10' Radius or Chaotic Commands would have done extra there. They didn't charm or confuse at the end and an additional buff to AC or saves wouldn't have really done much. Should I have prebuffed more? Yes. Did I "not prebuff at all"? No. There was a good point made in another comment that (a) I should have done one room then gone back to do other things before tackling this one and (b) having more specific protections against the Undead would have been better.

@@Redjoy123 I just think protection from evil is too good to pass in general, I have it up all the time but maybe that's just me :) Especially when combined with other spells, those AC and saves add up.

Yeah, I’m looking at it, if I had Protection from the Undead, I’d be able to waltz through that and other big spots for the first part of BG2. Both that room and with the Graveyard and the Shadow Temple quest. I’d just have to figure out how and when to use that protection. Minsc with Azuredge would have been good.

@@GODSPEEDseven Thank you so much! (What good timing! We JUST restarted an updated version of this series that actually puts the kits in the class guides, as of January of 2025, every Monday… and guess who is second?)

Thank you! I will miss Magda. I can put Barbarian on the list for this year, I plan on doing another redemption run for my next hardcore run.

That actually makes a lot of sense... I guess I tried that with the Druid's Outcove that ended up leading me to handle things in the city that led us to face - ANOMEN ROMANCE SPEECH Damnit Anomen!

Not really. I play only on insane and what is really needed is meta-knowledge. Adamantite golems are immune to all dmg and take only one point of dmg per hit. +3 weapons needed. As with the rakshasa the right tool does the trick. For the golems it is anomen, divine prot, flail of the ages. Minsk second row ..oil of speed , lilarcor. Or korgan with potion of absorbtion ,haste ,stonefire and the +3 iceaxe. Or simple dwarven thrower. Or minsk with azure edge. I strongly encourage mivsans completionist playthrough on YT. He is THE bg tactician. Daev is the player but miv is the knowledge guy Firkraags dungeon is the highest lvl challenge before spellhold. You need to have the right tools to handle its challenges. And theres not really much to find there for ur party. Xp and gold. Maybe the dragon helmet and shield Carsomyr is useless for u U are a good player but u seriouly lack knowledge. U need to KNOW what monsters u face.Cheasing the vamps with buffed anomen with a prot undead scroll would have been ur solution. He goes at it alone. The other five wait behind close doors.

@ Okay, thx bro

@@Redjoy123 hi. Im sry if i sound condescending...thats part of my autistic disfunction. You are a good player but with no save/no reload u will fail if u only react to your enemies. A high lvl wizard with dragons breath or horrid wilthing will instantly kill unprotected companions. U need to know ahead what u are facing and where.And what spells will protect u and what spells ur enemies protect themselves with. Daevaorn did hundreds of runs and he does not accend the majority of times. I cannot do Hardcore runs because i lose focus to often but i can memorize every single fight in every single map. This is how i can still have a good time in this game. With no rest runs and consumables only challenges and things like that. I wish u sucess and u will suceed but u need to change how u approach your game.

@@grimdawn9843 Appreciate it, and you're not wrong. To be honest, the more I think about it and rewatch that fight, the more ticked off I get at it. You guys have really great suggestions and I do have A LOT to learn about how to handle those SCS situations. There are strategies that I just don't use that I need to use. Thank you, sorry for being a bit short with my response. You are awesome and I'll seriously look at these suggestions before really going deep into BG2!

Oh yes, I knew... I just had a case of the moron-pox and Magda suffered the consequences... 🤦‍♂

That's great! I'm happy you enjoyed it and I hope that this is a help!

Yeah, Rakshasa are no joke! One of the toughest opponents in BG2 that no one talks about! I got super lucky that I was able to get the Hold Monster in on it (which I'm not sure how that worked...). A major limitation on this party is that I didn't pack my Breach or dispelling spells... oops... hopefully I can survive? But can we talk about that style? Holy crow, Rakshasa, as evil as they are, are undeniably stylish! Basically a large human with a tiger's head and amazing style!

@Redjoy123 yeah...they have style. And they eat humans. XD. They originate from the oriental adventures setting i believe. But im not old enough to ever lay my hands on one of the original sourcebooks of al-quadim or the other one (dont remember the name atm) .and today they are called inappropiate... They are spirits of evil nature who prey on humans. Strongly lawful and organized in a kaste like system similar to what people believe india was in earlier times. They are still a few rakshasa ahead of you. If u survive windspear. XD So pack your breach scrolls :)

Maybe, until he cast his first little magic missile... and killed one of the other hobgoblins outright. Then they held him as an exemplar of the ages, always to guide the tribe, using the powers of the arcane to - is that an adventuring party? Is that Gorion's Ward?!

@@Redjoy123 yer a wizard, Hobby. Make your way down to platform sixty-nine and four twentieths and board the locomotive to hobsnorts academy of hobbin' and wizardin'. Hobby couldn't stop his hands from shaking. After countless times reading the letter over and over again, burning every detail into his memory, he clutched the parchment to his chest and felt the warmth of a single tear streaming it's way down his cheek. Life was tough in the windspear hills. For the members of the hobknob tribe, prospects were bleak, with only the biggest and strongest hobs managing to scrape a meager existence out of their harsh and unforgiving surroundings. But now, hobby had a chance. A ticket out of this tiny village and into something much grander. A wizard. Yer a wizard, hobby. And in his heart of hearts, he promised to himself, ye'll be the grandest of wizards. Giddy with pure excitement, he started thinking of all the spells he would cast: magic missile, invisibility, fireball, stoneskin, and perhaps one day, even the most powerful spell a wizard could cast, the fabled goodberry. "Hobby, it's time to go hunting. " a rough voice broke him out of his reverie. Hastily stuffing the letter into a pocket, he scrambled to the door and yelled out "comin' ". One last hunt, and after it was over he'd be on his way to hobgoblin wizardin' school. Chomping at the bit with eager anticipation, he rushed out the door behind his brothers and cousins. Not quite an hour later, they could discern the stench of manflesh. The pungent, turnipy aroma of gnome. Even a delicate, savory hint of half-elf. With a vigorous roar, the hobgoblins charged forward at their prey. But suddenly, their roars changed to screams of terror, for a fireball had been launched in their direction. Hobby looked down, and saw the charred ashes of his corpse smouldering in the bitter, howling gusts of the windspear hills. He was a ghost now. Letting out a long and dejected sigh, he made his way back to Hobblekeep, to do it all over again. He knew the rules. Double damage, no reload. C'est le vie.