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Dragon's Comprehensive Party To-Do List (Advice, Suggestions, Tips, Comments and Additions)

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I. Introduction

As I stated in my basic party thread and judging by the responses I've gotten from my evil party thread, I'm going to go ahead and make a comprehensive thread that I can update with what characters I have beaten the game with, what characters I've used and in what combinations as well as other parties I'd like to explore. I fully expect this to be a long introductory post and thread in general, as such I will do my best to update the main post frequently so that everyone doesn't have to dig around trying to find my post. Furthermore, I'll feature useful pieces of advice and tips from other players with their names that I find helpful and I think people might benefit from in their own playthroughs.

Also if people would like I will keep a running blog for each party that I will try to provide links for in the main post in case people decide they find a character that they want to follow the progress of.

II. Personal Characters

These are lists of characters I want to beat the game with, or at least give a significant amount of time to trying. Please note, unless stated most characters will be female (although I haven't actually finished any of the male romances) and some characters may have notes for specific party/npc ideas with them. Any blogs/topics made for these characters will be linked to next to the character itself. For the purposes of everyone's safety, I will be primarily using these forums for links rather than trying to keep up my own independent blog.

A. Fighters
Dwarven Wizard Slayer: Tank; primarily uses Axes and Hammers
Elven Wizard Slayer: Damage; Bow, Longswords, Shield
Elven Kensai: Damage; Longswords, Katanas
Dwarven Berserker: Tank; Axes and Hammers (Allows for a good WS v Berserker comparison)
Half-Orc Berserker: Grunt; Greatsword, Halberd/Spear, Quarterstaff. Orc Smash

B. Rangers
Elven Archer
Elven Stalker

C. Paladins
Human Cavalier: (Only character to have fully beaten both games, would like to run her again with no usage of Shadowkeeper to restrict her to sword and board).
Human Inquisitor: Greatsword, just wanna out Keldorn at his own game
Human Undead Hunter: Dual Wield Mace and Longsword with Daystar and Mace of Disruption just for fun

D. Monk
Human Monk: Class completionist

E. Thief
Elven Assassin: Longsword, Shortbow
Halfling Assassin: Shortsword, Dagger, Crossbow (Saved for first EE run)
Elven Swashbuckler: Longswords etc

F. Bard
Half-Elven Blade: Might Shadowkeeper to Elf for funsies. Considering running this as a "Redemption" Party trying to change Viconia and Sarevok both to CG and bring Imoen in for more family fun.
Human Skald: 2h Weapon funsies

G. Cleric
Human Cleric of Helm: Might be my deep love for paladins but Helm has always ranked as one of the deities I prefer.
Human Cleric of Lathander: Just cause I've run a few in IWD2 and is another diety I don't mind

H. Druid
Half-Elven Avenger: Ain't decided if I should run an evil shadow druid type one for my current evil party playthrough
Half-Elven Shapeshifter: Would really like to try the kit if it gets fixed.
Half-Elven Totemic Druid: Honestly I could see this guy being really fun when paired with Edwin (the only mage I really conjure things with cause I'm usually not a fan).

G. Mages
Human Invoker: I like blasting things
Elven Enchanter: Just to force myself to NOT blast things or use different blasting spells for a run through

H. Sorcerer
Elven Sorcerer: Well I can't blast things with my Elven Enchanter can I?

I. The Multis:
Dwarven Fighter/Cleric: Probably won't run this class until I install a mod allowing me to gain grand mastery with multi classes.
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/5447/tale-of-taldrea-dwarven-fightercleric-will-contain-spoilers

Half-Elven Ranger/Cleric: Just to see what all the fuss is about. For additional fun I'm going to try to run it at the same time as the Undead Hunter for comparison.
Elven Fighter/Mage/Thief: I'll prolly solo the game with this character just for fun and to see how it goes. Might keep the party small if I do have one (Imoen+Romance+Sarevok)
Half-Elven Fighter/Mage/Cleric: Like the FMT this will likely be a soloing for fun class.
Gnome Cleric/Illusionist: Honestly I'll prolly make this a half-elf instead, but I figure anything Quayle and Aerie can do I can do better.

Elven Fighter/Mage: Like the Dwarven Fighter/Cleric I'll likely wait for a mod that will allow me to gain grand mastery. Always liked the concept of Spellswords.
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/5446/the-tales-of-rilthea-the-elven-fightermage-will-contain-spoilers

J. Blackguard
Human just because I have to be and primarily just to have tried one of every class.

III. Characters I've previously used in parties:

A. BG1
Ajantis
Dynaheir
Minsc
Imoen


B. BG2/ToB
Anomen (Romanced, painfully)
Keldorn
Valygar
Mazzy
Imoen/Nalia

IV. Characters left to include in parties

A. BG1
Khalid
Jaheria
Safana
Coran
Kivan (Used him a lot, never made it past chapter 4 though with him I think)
Yeslick (I think I've run him some in a party before but I don't think I finished that run)
Alora
Xan
Branwen
Skie
Garrick
Quayle
Edwin
Kagain
Eldoth
Montaron
Viconia
Tiaz
Xzar

B. BG2/ToB
Jaheria
Minsc
Jan
Haer'dalis
Edwin
Viconia
Kagain
Aerie
Sarevok

V. Thematic Parties to try

A. Fantastic Four (Fighter, Mage, Cleric, Thief all single classed)
B. Canon (Shame on me)
C. Evil
D. Xzar/Montaron (I hear they're hilarious so I'll give em a go)
E. OMG Elves (BG1 with Xan, Viconia, Kivan, Coran and Neera(?))
F. Lawful Party Members only (Should be interesting)
G. NON-lawful party members only

VI. Tips, Tricks, Advice, Suggestions

Sorry it's so long, I'll try to keep on top of this. Currently still trying to figure out what to do for my evil party (Which I hope will be PC, Edwin, Viconia, Korgan/Kagain, Xzar, Montaron, and Sarevok. Ain't decided on whether I want to include non-evil party members in the party although I've heard a lot of calls for Haer'dalis).


Thank you for reading and for your comments, suggestions, advice, tips, tricks and other random additions :)

Editted with the addition of the link for my Fighter/Mage. The Fighter/Cleric will likely be coming soon (tm).

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