I played BG back in the day. About a week ago I bought the Enhanced Edition and have been having a ball with it. I do think I'm really missing something though. I think the biggest thing I'm missing is on how to use thieves/thieving abilities. With Imoen I pretty much just use her to unlock chests and as a ranged attacker. There's got to be a lot better use.
I'd love to make use of her backstab, but I can't seem to figure it out. Should I just keep putting her in stealth over and over, so that when I stumble upon enemies, she's all set for it? Also, when I position her behind someone, as soon as I attack she leaves shadows. Am I missing something here?
My main is a stalker, and it took me til he was level 3 to notice that he's got a couple 'spells' (cure light wounds and charm animal) that I could use. That's the type of thing I'm looking for.
Also, Jahiera is a cleric, shouldn't she be able to turn undead?
Do you guys use up lots of potions? I keep everyone with a few healing potions but I try to use spells first if I can. But I feel like I'm just stockpiling all these others, maybe I should just use them up with reckless abandon?
What about buying magic items? I just spent virtually all of my gold on the +3 shadow armor for my main, only to find that he can't use it. So now Imoen has it.
Anyway I guess what I'm getting at is I feel like there's a lot of really basic strategies I'm missing out on or overlooking.
In battles, I tend to use sleep or web if there's a lot of low level opponents, but I find that web backfires more often than not (ie, I end up stuck in it myself, or I realize that I've got them caught in the web but they're still using ranged attacks). Maybe I should ditch web for something else? What other spells are good to use? I tend to stick to identify, sleep, magic missile...I don't seem to like any of the lv 2 spells yet.
Also, how do clerics learn new spells?
As you can see I've got lots of questions and I feel like I'm just rushing through this game and missing a lot.
I also want to check out mods at some point but I guess that's a different topic entirely...
I'd love to make use of her backstab, but I can't seem to figure it out. Should I just keep putting her in stealth over and over, so that when I stumble upon enemies, she's all set for it? Also, when I position her behind someone, as soon as I attack she leaves shadows. Am I missing something here?
My main is a stalker, and it took me til he was level 3 to notice that he's got a couple 'spells' (cure light wounds and charm animal) that I could use. That's the type of thing I'm looking for.
Also, Jahiera is a cleric, shouldn't she be able to turn undead?
Do you guys use up lots of potions? I keep everyone with a few healing potions but I try to use spells first if I can. But I feel like I'm just stockpiling all these others, maybe I should just use them up with reckless abandon?
What about buying magic items? I just spent virtually all of my gold on the +3 shadow armor for my main, only to find that he can't use it. So now Imoen has it.
Anyway I guess what I'm getting at is I feel like there's a lot of really basic strategies I'm missing out on or overlooking.
In battles, I tend to use sleep or web if there's a lot of low level opponents, but I find that web backfires more often than not (ie, I end up stuck in it myself, or I realize that I've got them caught in the web but they're still using ranged attacks). Maybe I should ditch web for something else? What other spells are good to use? I tend to stick to identify, sleep, magic missile...I don't seem to like any of the lv 2 spells yet.
Also, how do clerics learn new spells?
As you can see I've got lots of questions and I feel like I'm just rushing through this game and missing a lot.
I also want to check out mods at some point but I guess that's a different topic entirely...