Party Numer TWO - 06 Jan. 2006
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Savegame #2, 06 Jan. 2006 (Warning: mods required, see below)
 Attitude: Xandarr, my main character. I decided to create a melee divine spellcaster, for the very first time, since I’ve been using Arcane Magic way too much. I ended up with three members who are able to cast divinity spells, which is awesome. Xandarr is also the main melee mob killer, besides Keldorn. He performs this job very well using two maces or a flail, fully buffed up with his own spells. Type: Human Chaotic Good, Cleric/Ranger |
 Attitude: Ah, my beloved Inquisitor. I love this guy, especially when he’s wielding the Holy Avenger, the +5 two-handled sword carefully preserved by Firkraag. The only paladin in the game. His only weak point is the low DEX, but that can be easily fixed by a pair of gauntlets. Keldorn’s True Sight and Dispel Magic are very powerful and useful too. Type: Human Lawful Good, Inquisitor |
 Attitude: I never picked up Valygar, besides the planar sphere quest. My party is always too full. Instead of creating the cheesy Kensai/mage I’m used to, I am doing fine unlocking Valygar’s true powers: also katana’s of course. Give him a pair of haste boots and some buffs and watch him kill. As a ranger, Valygar can also cast some useful (divine, again) spells. Radical Enemy is a plus! |
 Attitude: Cernd is the only Druid/shapeshifter in the game and it’s time to spread the word: shapeshifters are powerful if you use the right strategy. Partially thanks to the shapeshifter fix modification, of course. And Cernd has access to some pretty powerful spells, and can serve as a backup healer. Yes. Type: Human, True Neutral, Shapeshifter |
 Attitude: I cannot live without a proper backup mage, whether it’s a silly Illusionist or not. I did not rescue my sister yet, so chances are I’ll ditch Jan in the future. I know all his silly stories and he was never really useful, except as a backup. But I need some thief abilities (my previous main char was an assassin). Type: Gnome, Chaotic Neutral - Illusionist/thief |
 Attitude: Ah, the main damage output has finally arrived. There is sadly no sorcerer present in the unmodified version of BG2, and I cannot live without Kelsey anymore. He never ever let me down: whether it’s spamming fireballs or lowering mage’s resistances and breaching their shields. Less spell picks, more spell memorization slots. That’s a pretty good deal. Type: Human, Lawful Neutral Sorcerer Name: Kelsey |
- Party Number ONE - 31 July 2003
- Party Number TWO - 04 June 2004
- Party Number THREE - 21 January 2005
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Party Numer ONE - 31 July 2003
 Attitude: This was probably the easiest char I’ve ever played in wizardry 8… And he’s quite boring too. Well they are excellent professions early & mid-game those fighters, but tend to be very boring late-game because everything is maxed. They level fast too. He liked to whack every living being he saw - poor Crock… Type: Male Lizardman Fighter |
 Attitude: I was very disappointed when this guy reached level 10 (in Trynton). He just missed 75% of the blows and his magic was quite weak. The problem was not the profession “priest” but me assigning wrong skill points, hehe… Well the first time everything goes wrong I guess. Type: Male Dwarf Priest |
 Attitude: Holy crap this guy can really dish out some serious damage! He single handly managed to disable several enemies before the others even reached them. The thieves daggers, 10% kill is very powerfull. Including the x5 backstab multiplier and locks & traps. He levelled quite fast too. Amazing easy! Type: Male Hobbit Rogue |
 Attitude: The ranged char. Nothing much to say except her scouting skill was very very handy. I really love to scout around and the “Found something!” sound coming out of your boxes is quite satisfacting. Later I found out there also excists “Find Secrets” - and because the ranger never did great damage; she won’t go along with me the next few times… Type: Female Mook Ranger |
 Attitude: She was the most deadly character I think, it’s a long time ago. I do know her magic spells were quite great and effective too. But after level 15 she didn’t really learn any interesing new spells and became quite boring. Because the samurai also uses wizardry, I won’t have another mage in my next parties… Type: Female Faerie Mage |
 Attitude: Everyone and their grandmother were talking about the famous “know-it-all” guy, the bard. Yeah whatever I tought, but I still wanted to try it out just to be sure nobody was making a fool out of me. Well I have to say she did quite well, especially after finding some nice lutes which is quite easy to do. The +STAT item gear you can aquire makes it even better! Type: Female Hobbit Bard |
Conclusion - My first attempt to Wizardry 8 failed, just like all of you guys, hehehe. I lost track of my character progression tables when I came back from Marten’s Bluff and stopped playing for a while. After “researching” some, the second try was a very nice attempt to ascend. Or let’s say better than the first one, hehe. The fighter & rogue were good but boring, the mage had too less spells, the priest couln’t hit anything and the ranger didn’t damage anything. They are all around level 13. Actually I’m lying right now; this is not the first party. I did 2 parties before, but they aren’t even worth this page, go figure.
- Party Number ONE - November 2004
- Party Number TWO - 01 February 2005
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Party Numer ONE - November 2004
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Level - 25.
Laprovski - Male Dwarf - Raised by Monks
Skills - Technologist: firearms, gunsmithy, electricity & explosives
Stats - First PER Second INT Third DEX
After a few tries, this dwarf managed to get himself to Tarant. There, the beautiful game acutally started with so many options - especially for technology! The dozens of shops give you plenty of possibilities and you’ll never run out of your own gadgets. This was the *decent* first-try char, but actually I would like to have a few things changed - that’ll be for the next few plays. He has 2 degrees in electricity for the “charged rings” which raise your DEX by 2 each and since I didn’t have enough that’s good. The backup plan is throwing but I didn’t get enough points and a decent non-bullet-consuming weapon… Explosives for the damage & pushing monsters backwards, works really nice. Prowling is good too but your followers tend to disagree, heh.
A few days ago, Obsidian’s modular Roleplaying game Neverwinter Nights 2 was released. NWN is well-known for its overwhelming amounth of fan-made modules and even whole Community Packs. This is the result of BioWare’s powerful Aurora Engine toolkit, which came packaged with the game. So actually it’s not that strange the game gets so much attention - take a look at UT2004’s numberous modifications or Total Conversions: with UnrealEd this is all possible.
BioWare’s previous critically acclaimed Roleplaying game, Baldur’s Gate II, did not feature any toolkits when it was released in 2000. BG2 used Planescape Torment’s and Icewind Dale’s Infinity Engine to render scenes. (Acutally the Infinity Engine was first used in BG1, released in 1998. Black Isle did Planescape in 1999) Thanks to BG’s widely accepted “Best RPG Game ever” state, fans started engineering tools to hack the file system used by this engine. Various File extractors and speech decompilers started showing up and before you know it, complete Conversions for Baldur’s Gate became available! Let’s dig really deep and list a (short, can’t possibly list everything) couple of popular modifications for Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, and for the expansion pack, Throne of Bhaal.
- nubs
I am convinced, after playing the game a few times, that the most consistently powerful party...
- Jefklak
I’ve also found the bishop to be one of the best and most powerful classes to use :)...
- angel
The best party you can have in this game, and trust me I have played with a lot of kind of...
- hadjer
je veux jouer avec claw si c’est possible et merçi
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