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Your ideal weapons to dual wield?

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I've always fantasized about doing a playthrough of BG2 while dual-wielding the Flail of Ages and Celestial Fury. If one weapon doesn't slow them, the other will freeze them!

What would be your ideal weapons to dual wield in either game?

So how many versions of the game do you own?

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Looking back, I spent a lot of money on this game... My buying history:

Original BG1 (not completed at that time, Planescape came out soon after and took all attention)
Original BG2
Original ToB expansion
Collector's edition of the complete saga (when my son was born I bought one to make sure I have a second copy to play multiplayer with him when he grows up... :) )
GoG BG1 (we moved to India and my CDs are in storage, DSL too slow here for online games so it was back to the classics)
GoG BG2+ToB
BG1EE ipad (which sucks in my opinion)
BG1EE Mac (even though my GoG is running well on bootcamp but I want to support Mac game development)
BG2EE Mac (ditto)
coming after next patch BG2EE Win (my son is now 8, it is time! :) )
probably BG2EE ipad when it's out for solo runs when travelling (can't stand parties on the ipad interface)

So that's 5 versions of BG1 and already 4 BG2 with 2 more coming. I think I should gate a rebate. :)

Actually I think there would be good demand for a multi-platform license...

Anyone can beat that? :)

What is the deal with Kazgaroth Claw?

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What the title says. It seems that everyone and their grandmother uses this item and I just can't help but wonder why. It gives you +1 AC (mostly meaningless), gimps your Death saving throw and gives some bonus to others in return. Oh, and it lowers your Con score.

Not that great if you ask me - am I missing something?

What do you think Baeloth is doing during BG2EE?

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He is "busy" so will not be in BG2:EE
At least not as a joinable NPC


He will be in the Black Pits 2 section but not in BG2EE's main game (SoA, ToB).
I don't believe anyone has said anything about where he'll be or what he's doing; just that he's busy during the events of BGII:EE.

After reading @Dee's comment above in the Ask Us Anything thread I felt that a thread about Baeloth's destiny in BG2EE was unavoidable so I decided to create one :)

Let's hear what you think .

Arkanis Gath??

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Lol 1 shot my whole group one at a time who is this guy?

Kivan leaves when Dorn tells how he became a Blackguard - a bug?

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I don't know if it's intended or a bug, but in the middle of Dorn's tale about being imprisoned and becoming a blackguard, Kivan left the group.
I have reputation 9 and I was in BG (so I killed the bandits).
I'm playing with iPad.
Is this a bug or not?

Watcher's Keep looting between BG II and TOB

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So there are many items that clearly are for the upgraded recipe items in TOB-- I MUST have them on my party after BGII concludes to use them in TOB right? Or could I leave them in Watcher's Keep and then go back to reclaim the items during my TOB exploration of Watcher's?

A dangerous discussion...

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I know this won't be the most applauded of discussion but here goes!

Is there anywhere that I can download the Baldur's Gate novels? I REALLLLLLYYY don't want to be paying money for them as I know they're terrible, I just wanted to read how terrible XD

Sahuagin City theme music

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Hey, friends, this little post falls under the "can't believe I've just noticed this now after 15 years" type of "this game can still surprise and delight me" type.

I'm in Sahuagin City with my male skald run, and I *just* noticed for the first time that this music is clearly inspired by John Williams' "Jaws" music. It's almost a direct quote!

Rather than using only the string basses to quote the motif, Michael Hoenig fills it in with other instruments playing, but the rhythm is identical.

Get it? Shark city, shark music. LOL.

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New feature of EE I just discovered by accident

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So, friends, I had been living with the idea that every time I expanded my script and actions window in EE, I was going to have to click on the little arrows on the right to cause the past multitude of actions and dialogues to appear on the window.

Would you believe, I just discovered that, upon expanding the window, which makes all the text go blank except for the last printed line, I can just click hold and drag on the window space to make all the previous text reappear, and that I can click drag it at will to see anything I want that I missed while having the window minimized?

Derp.

I posted this topic just in case anyone else has not discovered the feature.

Edwin and choosing sides (big spoilers inside)

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Ok I am playing an evil group with Dorn and Hexxat and was planning on using Edwin but I was also thinking about siding with Bhodi this time (seems to fit with Hexxat in the group) but I'm thinking I probably can't do both - can I? Is Edwin only available when choosing the Thieves Guild?

BG2-Do you side with Bodhi or the Shadow Thieves?

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I want to know which group you side with in the first half of BG2, and why~

Is it possible to get a critical failure when stealing from stores?

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I'm afraid ever since I discovered the joys of stealing, I've never been the same again. Jan was very happy indeed now that Hexxat has gifted him with a bottomless sack for all those... liberated goodies.
I know no matter how high your Pick Pockets score is, you can still get a critical failure when stealing directly from npcs, however, is the same also true for stealing from stores?
I must have ransacked the stores of Athkatla yet Jan didn't fail a single time, so I guess you are safe provided you have the required score for "100%" stealing chance like ~225 with Bernard?

+thaco weapons

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Arrows of piercing grant +4, but they don't work properly on any creatures that need magic weapons. Jerrod's mace grants +5 against demons, but doesn't work on demons that need more than +2. I guess the question is are there any +thaco weapons that grant the enhancement properly?

Multiplayer between steam & beamdog?

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First, a confession. I vaguely knew about BG:EE, but wasn't following it, and didn't particularly see the point in getting it. Then I saw it for sale on steam for $5, and grabbed it anyway. Yes, I know, I'm the lowest of the low, and deserve only fire and death.

Now being much wiser, I will probably get BG2:EE through beamdog at some point. This is made harder by the fact that it is currently $20 on beamdog but $16.75 on steam, while BG1:EE is $15 on beamdog but $10 on steam. Also I already have the beta test version of BG2:EE, so I'm not feeling much pressure to buy. Never fear, I shall get it through beamdog in pennance for my earlier sins.

None of this was the point. I would like to get a second version of BG1:EE so I can play multiplayer with my daughter. Can I get the beamdog version, and will it work with the steam version?

*SPOILERS* Any way to get reward for rescuing missing son in Underdark while disguised?

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Looks like if I return the eggs to Adalon she instantly teleports me. But I would like to get the reward from the dwarf first BEFORE leaving. Is there no way to return to the Underdark after Adalon ports you?

tanking a beholder without cheese

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Assume you are playing no-reload, so you cannot afford to just 'wing it' for a bad saving throw.

How can you reliably tank a beholder/elder orb WITHOUT using the Shield of Cheese or the Cloak of Cheese?

[theoretical]
Figther/Mage -> Spell Immunity: Nec/Evo/Abj + Spell Shield + Prot. f Petrif.
(does Spell Shield stay up?)

Any other reliable methods?

How old is Suldanessellar?

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And who have been the previous kings/queens before Ellesime? On Forgotten Realms wiki it says the average lifespan of elves is up to 300 but can be 900, so it has to be a good hundred years old at least.

choosing a druid right (through BGEE and BG2EE) – pros, cons of kits and combinations?

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Dear readers,

i'm considering to play a druid through BGEE and BG2EE, but i can't really decide which flavour it should be ... i am an experienced player with many runs from candlekeep till the end of TOB, but i can't remember ever to have played a druid all through the saga, so this is new to me and i'd like to have some fun and challenge alike.

what i'd like to have is:
– no totally weak and useless character that needs to be carried through the game by his companions due to poor kit decisions by bioware/overhaul.
– no cheesy aspects to exploit that make the game easy or boring.

having heard of druid kits to be unbalanced, weak, cheesy, useless, non-scaling etc., i don't want to run into one of these, but play the one that's just right – if there is. so i'd like to ask for opinions, pros and cons of
– non-kit pure
– the official kits
– potentially mod kits too (if they work now in EE 1.2 versions?)
– dual classing / multi classing (what combinations, when to switch, ...)

if possible, i'd like to play a female character that is romancable by hexxat (as i have not met her yet), non-human slightly preferred.

what i don't want is advise not to play a druid :-)

thanks for your opinions and thoughts
Beleg-Cuthalion

An Odd Question On Dual-Classing Mechanics

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Ok, so I pretty much know the rules to and for Dual-Classing, BUT... can you Triple Duel Class? I mean, I know you can Dual-Class into any of the Double Multi-Classes that Non-Humans enjoy, such as the Fighter/Mage, Fighter/Cleric, Fighter/Thief, ect, ect... combos, but how's about the Fighter/Mage/Thief combo? Can you do that with a Human's Dual Classing ability? Just an odd question I had thought of and now want answered. Thanks for any help, and goodbye for now.
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