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[Fizzeler]

So favorite party combinations in Baldur's Gate 1?

I personally like
PC - Paladin or Fighter/Mage
Edwin - Mage
Xan - Mage
Minsc - Ranger
Viconia - Cleric
Garrick - Bard/Thief

This is before I goto find Dynaheir in which she replaces Edwin

[jaxsbudgie]

PC - Fighter/Thief (as usual)
Viconia - Cleric
Kagain - Fighter
Shar-Teel - Berserker
Safana - Bounty Hunter/Mage
Edwin - Mage

And a few others ....

PC - Berserker
Faldorn - Avenger
Branwen - Fighter>Cleric
Skie - Swashbuckler
Eldoth - Skald
Garrick - Jester

PC - Fighter>Mage
Xzar - Cleric/Necromancer ... it makes so much sense!
Viconia - Cleric/Thief
Shar-Teel - Berserker
Safana - Gypsy (Bard kit from Song & Silence)

Modifié par jaxsbudgie, 10 septembre 2010 - 09:53 .

[Marty Silverblade]

Haven't played this yet (I would be in chapter 3 if my computer didn't epic fail) but here's what I think would be good:



PC: Berserker

Imoen: Thief -> d/c -> Mage

Kivan: Archer

Indira: Fighter/Mage

Branwen/Finch: Cleric

Safana: Assassin

[Cowboy_christo]

jaxsbudgie wrote...

PC - Fighter>Mage
Xzar - Cleric/Necromancer ... it makes so much sense!
Viconia - Cleric/Thief
Shar-Teel - Berserker
Safana - Gypsy (Bard kit from Song & Silence)

No montaron with xzar? WTH

[Son of Imoen]

jaxsbudgie, can you tell me how to give an NPC a kit from a mod, like you did with Safana and the Gypsy kit? I'm used to employing EasyTutu NPC-kits, but it only gives you vanilla BG2-options.

some of my favorite party's:

PC - Blade
Ajantis - Paladin
Finch - NPC-mod Cleric, very likeable personality!
Kivan - Archer
Imoen - Thief (not dualed)
Xan - Enchanter
- because of Xan's kit, my Blade is the one throwing magic missiles, chromatic orbs and fireballs at the enemy, I like my PC to be throwing fire at the foe, even though he's a bard and it's often thought they should use their spells for buffing  - but with high DEX (19 with tome) proper equipment and using spins at critical moments, he doesn't need much buffing.

very powerful 4 man party I have:
PC - Fighter-Mage
Ajantis (again) - Paladin
Gavin - NPC-mod Cleric (bit boring - too goody goody)
Imoen - Thief6>Mage
My F-M is chaotic neutral, but after some moral lessons and reprimands from Ajantis he was persuaded into being almost as chaotic/neutral good as most of my characters

With my Bard having finished the game, I got a campaign going with a half-elf Conjurer that has the same characters with her: Ajantis, Finch, Kivan, Imoen and Xan - they're my most favorite characters. Especially Finch and Xan .

[Fizzeler]

no love for sir Garrick here he cowers so easily though!

[lroumen]

I have enjoyed these parties

Protagonist (anything, I was druid)
Ajantis (paladin, melee)
Safana (thief dualed to mage at level 4 or 5 using the tome of intelligence, traps and locks)
Imoen exchanged for Coran later on (ranged and stealth)
Branwen (cleric, melee)
Garrick (bard, pickpocket)

Protagonist (anything, I was transmuter dualed to thief at level 4 (invisibility and stealth)
Shar-Teel (fighter dualed to thief at level 6, traps, stealth)
Minsc (ranger, melee)
Dynaheir (invoker dualed to cleric at level 5 using tomes of wisdom)
Imoen (thief, locks, traps) exchanged for Alora late game (locks, pockets)
Quayle (cleric, mage)

Modifié par lroumen, 13 septembre 2010 - 07:47 .

[Son of Imoen]

How did you manage to dual Safana so early? Don't you need to be in chapter 5 before you have access to the tomb of intelligence?

[jaxsbudgie]

Cowboy_christo wrote...

jaxsbudgie wrote...
PC - Fighter>Mage
Xzar - Cleric/Necromancer ... it makes so much sense!
Viconia - Cleric/Thief
Shar-Teel - Berserker
Safana - Gypsy (Bard kit from Song & Silence)

No montaron with xzar? WTH

I think with that playthrough I started with the intention of whenever a character dies, I would remove them and replace them. That soon got boring once Imoen, Montaron, Branwen, Jaheira and Khalid died. But by the time I'd collected everyone in the list above, they were beyond solid as a team. Plus I've never been a fan of pint sized people unless it's Korgan or Kagain.

Son of Imoen wrote...
jaxsbudgie, can you tell me how to
give an NPC a kit from a mod, like you did with Safana and the Gypsy
kit? I'm used to employing EasyTutu NPC-kits, but it only gives you
vanilla BG2-options.

Install the kit mods early on (Song & Silence, Sword & Fist, Divine Reix etc etc), then install Level 1 NPCs last. Safana as a Gypsy was meant to be, her bard song charms people into fighting alongside her, hilarious.

lroumen wrote...
Protagonist (anything, I was transmuter dualed to thief at level 4 (invisibility and stealth)
Shar-Teel (fighter dualed to thief at level 6, traps, stealth)
Minsc (ranger, melee)
Dynaheir (invoker dualed to cleric at level 5 using tomes of wisdom)
Imoen (thief, locks, traps) exchanged for Alora late game (locks, pockets)
Quayle (cleric, mage)

I've always wanted to try a party with just dualed humans. I've already dualed Safana to mage with the tome of intelligence and Shar Teel to thief in the past. I know Xzar and Dynaheir can become clerics with tomes of wisdom, and Branwen with a tome of dexterity. Maybe in my next run through.

Modifié par jaxsbudgie, 13 septembre 2010 - 11:52 .

[TheGreatAndMightyBob]

PC - F/M/T



Really good party you can do anything with it and it still provides enough of a challange.

I had real fun with mine

[lroumen]

jaxsbudgie wrote...

lroumen wrote...
Protagonist (anything, I was transmuter dualed to thief at level 4 (invisibility and stealth)
Shar-Teel (fighter dualed to thief at level 6, traps, stealth)
Minsc (ranger, melee)
Dynaheir (invoker dualed to cleric at level 5 using tomes of wisdom)
Imoen (thief, locks, traps) exchanged for Alora late game (locks, pockets)
Quayle (cleric, mage)

I've always wanted to try a party with just dualed humans. I've already dualed Safana to mage with the tome of intelligence and Shar Teel to thief in the past. I know Xzar and Dynaheir can become clerics with tomes of wisdom, and Branwen with a tome of dexterity. Maybe in my next run through.

I have been temped to do that as well. The problem is that although you can dual both Xzar and Dynaheir, you will have to jump into Durlag's Tower on time to get the last tome of wisdom or otherwise you will not be in time to regain the mage levels.

[ncknck]

My favorite party in BG1

Fighter&Imoen(rogue)
Khalid&Jaheira
Minsc&Dynaheir

I could make a party 10 times as powerful as above, but its not as fun to play or roleplay.

Modifié par ncknck, 14 septembre 2010 - 08:30 .

[Son of Imoen]

jaxsbudgie wrote...
Install the kit mods early on (Song & Silence, Sword & Fist, Divine Reix etc etc), then install Level 1 NPCs last. Safana as a Gypsy was meant to be, her bard song charms people into fighting alongside her, hilarious.

Sounds like a fun idea. I plan on playing a Gypsy PC, but I haven't made up my mind yet to make it a BG1 or BG2 campaign. But Safana as a Gypsy? Sounds like a charming idea

[Son of Imoen]

ncknck wrote...

My favorite party in BG1

Fighter&Imoen(rogue)
Khalid&Jaheira
Minsc&Dynaheir

I could make a party 10 times as powerful as above, but its not as fun to play or roleplay.

Another idea I'll put into a campaign one day is myself (a portrait of me with a helmet made into a 170x110 bmp image) with this 'canonical' party, but I will be a Cleric: Painbearer of Ilmater kit.

[lroumen]

Son of Imoen wrote...

How did you manage to dual Safana so early? Don't you need to be in chapter 5 before you have access to the tomb of intelligence?

Sorry, I missed this question. Basically I rushed through the early chapters with a 6 man party so you gain only few levels. Then once I got to access to the city I went to collect the tome to use on Safana and immediately dual her. She was rather far into level 4 or 5 at that point so some experience points were lost, but that is okay.
I think you can also hire an NPC at an early level, ditch them and later on rehire them at the same lower level at which you ditched them.

[Enuhal]

There were several partys I really liked. Couldn't say there is a favorite, but one 4-people constellation has a huge nostalgic bonus for me, because it was basically the combination of all the characters left on the map in my first successful no-reload attempt (everybody else suffered from permanent death):



PC (Druid)

Yeslick

Coran

Skie

[Son of Imoen]

lroumen wrote...

Son of Imoen wrote...

How did you manage to dual Safana so early? Don't you need to be in chapter 5 before you have access to the tomb of intelligence?

Sorry, I missed this question.

Thanks for noticing now . I have never tried rushing chapter 3 and 4, but I'm willing to believe it's possible. I'm just used to gathering most of the xp from exploring the Sword Coast in chapter 3, as I always use Hard Times (tougher economy: higher prices and less magic items lying around - no Ring of Wizardry until very late in the game) combined with Sword Coast Stratagems. I myself couldn't beat the party at the mine entrance so early on, not with HT and SCS installed. I think. Would be a challenge to try though.

[Son of Imoen]

Son of Imoen wrote...
Another idea I'll put into a campaign one day is myself (a portrait of me with a helmet made into a 170x110 bmp image) with this 'canonical' party, but I will be a Cleric: Painbearer of Ilmater kit.

Or I might use the BWP installl I recently made - the recommended version, with Spell Revisions, without Divine Remix, so no Painbearer of Ilmater - and try out the 'Priest of Mystra' kit. The recommended BWP install comes with a whole lot of new kits that are put there by The Darkest Day. And that Priest of Mystra looks cool: a cleric that gets to cast the evocation wizard spells as well. Might be overpowered, but more fun than a plain Cleric.

Any thoughts on what's your favourite PC class if you take the canonical party (Imoen, Jaheira, Khalid, Minsc, Dynaheir)? To me being a cleric seems the most logical - though it hurts my atheist conscience to worship a God - because of the disabling spells like Silence and Hold Person that Jaheira can't cast. Any other classes that people put in with those 5?

Modifié par Son of Imoen, 15 septembre 2010 - 05:50 .

[jaxsbudgie]

Enuhal wrote...

There were several partys I really liked. Couldn't say there is a favorite, but one 4-people constellation has a huge nostalgic bonus for me, because it was basically the combination of all the characters left on the map in my first successful no-reload attempt (everybody else suffered from permanent death):

PC (Druid)
Yeslick
Coran
Skie

Four really good characters, what a bizarre team though, looks like it may be suprisingly efficient. Out of interest, what did you think of Skie?

I seem to pick her up more than often nowadays, and I don't even know why.

[jaxsbudgie]

Son of Imoen wrote...

Son of Imoen wrote...
Another idea I'll put into a campaign one day is myself (a portrait of me with a helmet made into a 170x110 bmp image) with this 'canonical' party, but I will be a Cleric: Painbearer of Ilmater kit.

Or I might use the BWP installl I recently made - the recommended version, with Spell Revisions, without Divine Remix, so no Painbearer of Ilmater - and try out the 'Priest of Mystra' kit. The recommended BWP install comes with a whole lot of new kits that are put there by The Darkest Day. And that Priest of Mystra looks cool: a cleric that gets to cast the evocation wizard spells as well. Might be overpowered, but more fun than a plain Cleric.

Any thoughts on what's your favourite PC class if you take the canonical party (Imoen, Jaheira, Khalid, Minsc, Dynaheir)? To me being a cleric seems the most logical - though it hurts my atheist conscience to worship a God - because of the disabling spells like Silence and Hold Person that Jaheira can't cast. Any other classes that people put in with those 5?

I recently did a BWP install a few weeks ago just to test it out, first thing I didn't like were the components it didn't install that are normally staple components for me. Also The Darkest Day sort of ruined it for me. The kits reaked of 'mod content' if you know what I mean. The Cleric kits were a bit overpowered, I too was taken in by them. They're not as well structered as the Cleric kits in Divine Remix, shame Spell Revisions isn't compatible with it.
I'd recommend a manual install too, it's fairly simple so long as you follow the PDF.

[Son of Imoen]

I just found out yesterday, when rolling a Priest of Mystra with the recommended install, the kit doesn't even function as the Spell Revisions were installed after TDD, as the divine spell selection gets overwritten by Spell Revisions, so that the Priest of Mystra kit doesn't have the wizard's Evocation spells. So I opted for a vanilla Priest of Lathander kit. Yet I still want to try out what BWP is like, especially to experience all the mega-mod quests. It's a pity you can't hand-pick your own tweaks, but I was surprised how much was tweaked in a way that I would choose it if I did a hand-made install.



I won't try a hand-made install of the mega-mods, as it is so much work and so easy to fool things up. This spring I wasted three days installing BGT three times over and three times something went wrong. Even if you do it by the book (by the PDF), it takes so much time. Setting all the tweaks in BGT costed me most of a day with all the mods I choose, even without the mega-mods I got into the BWP automated install now. I hope that some day a more tweakable version of the BWP-installer is made. In the selection screen, there's a box saying something like 'in the future you will be able to select components here'. I'm looking forward to that future.

[corey_russell]

My favorite was a 4-man party. Everybody leveled at a nice pace, and there wasn't anything we couldn't do.

Khalid - Fighter
Branwen - Cleric
Imoen - level 5 thief dualed to a mage
PC - Fighter/Mage (Multiclass)

I had the PC have ** in bow so he used a composite bow and rained down arrows on the weaker enemies and spells and wands on the tougher ones. Imoen did the same thing but of course with her shortbow. Having 3/4 of the party able to use wands was also pretty handy.

Modifié par corey_russell, 16 septembre 2010 - 03:44 .

[Masterdisorder]

PC Fighter/Thief
Shar-teel
Kivan
Quayle
Viconia
Edwin

Only neutral-good best party
PC Fighter/Thief
Minsc
Kivan
Quayle
Branwen
Dynaheir

BG1+BG2+ToB
PC Fighter/Thief
Sarevok
Korgan
Aerie
Viconia
Edwin

Modifié par Masterdisorder, 01 octobre 2010 - 06:54 .

[wise grimwald]

I per sonally like my current team:

PC Cleric/Ranger
Jahiera
Ajantis
Coran
Dynahir
Leave this one to change between various characters to do their quests.

With that set up there is enough banter and romance to keep anyone happy with my set up.
I like the romance between my character and Dynahir.

If playing a female elven character, I would have Xan instead of Dynahir. Interesting romance there too.