This game has so many choices and options that I constantly feel like I should reroll and start again. It's an amazing game so far but the combat is kicking my ass.
How viable is it to play as a bard?
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I never figured bards out in BG1, they always ended up worse thieves.
>Had to cheat to finish Planescape Torment
Old games are too hard.
Its okey the combat for Planescape only existed because that was the norm
Nope, you are just bad, I play on the hardest difficulty it just takes longer. No shame restarting and only making it 1 encounter further.
There's bard companions you can try out there's no reason to restart as one of them
Can I make a team of me and my harem of waifus?
There's 10 female companions
https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Companions#Baldur's_Gate_companions
Everyone should do that at least once.
Yes, but you have to max out charisma or you're roleplaying it wrong.
Bards are good in general. In BG1 they're like mages that scale faster. Their biggest disadvantage is that they can't learn the big boy spells in BG2, but that's not a problem for the first game.
Fallout 1 is leagues better
I prefer the fantasy setting rather than the post-apocalyptic.
And isn't that whole game on a timer? At least this only has a few missions that are timed.
It's a really fricking lax timer
You can do the entire main quest in like a few ingame days iirc
the water merchants ratting you out was genius lol
>How viable is it to play as a bard?
very, you basicaly are a thief with magic options
also go ranged for the first levels, there is no reason not to as damage rolls are high enough to kill both you and the enemy in one hit so you better get a drop on them first
I can still use bows even if I don't proficiency in them, right? I just don't get the bonus?
If you dont have proficiency you get a malus
1 proficiency is no bonus
Magic is so damn strong so you definitely want some kind of wizard. Some butthole in a cave with skeletons was kicking my ass until I whipped out some scroll with a fire laser.
Just make sure to keep exploring the map instead of heading right to the objectives like I did. Having a wizard with 4 HP kind of sucks.
Mage classes are practically the game's easy mode. They can do almost everything.
Just make sure you pick a kit, Skald or Blade are both really good.
the main thing to keep in mind in these games is that generally your fighters will be stronger than enemy fighters because you have better gear, but enemy wizards will be more dangerous than your wizards because they can use all their spells in one fight while you are trying to ration yours. so the strategy then should be to kill their wizard first and then let your fighters mop up. in bg1 you can give everyone a bow and just click on the enemy wizard and usually kill them before they can frick you over too much. in bg2 you want to give your fighters anti-wizard equipment like shield/cloak of balduran and your casters anti-wizard spells like power word silence. in both games you can also buy a limited number of potions or scrolls of magic invulnerability which are basically like skip passes for hard fights. even hard fights like kangaxx or irenicus in hell are trivialized by these items.
>in bg2 you want to give your fighters anti-wizard equipment like shield/cloak of balduran
I'd argue you should stack as much Magic Resistance onto Viconia as possible, even though she doesn't become godly in combat until TOB.
With a 50% MR it's the easisest to boost her to 100% MR and just have her sponge spells near the front of the formation.
yes that can be a good strategy. keldorn with the holy avenger also has good magic resist. with tob level cap it's also possible to get monk with 100% resist.
Any class works in BG1 as long as you party. A lot of the npcs have broken stats, items or both (Edwin's Necklace grants him +1 spells ever level so he will always be better than a player rolled Wizard, even if you roll something like an 87 for your character creation stats
Edwin is strong, but the strongest kind of mage is one that is a dual-class fighter. Most of these mage spells become godly when they're in the hands of someone who has a fighter background. But doing the dual-class route is initially miserable, so I tend to do the multi-class one, which gets to be inefficient later in the campaign.
I'm also plyaing BG1 after finishing BG3 a couple days ago. I made a warlock in BG3 but I think i want to make a bard now for BG1 because I want to have a character that can influence npcs to make them do what I want. If I make a bard my character will be more of a support type right?
Bards are jacks of all trades in BG1/2. They're the closest you get to a straight-up Adventurer class.
cool that's what I'm looking for. But how do you play it? Like at early level? bow, sword, just buffing allies?
>because I want to have a character that can influence npcs to make them do what I want
BG1/2 are both unfortunately really bare-bones when it comes to mechanics like that. Planescape Torment is what you want to play if you really want to do crazy shit with conversation stat checks.
so there's no point in dumping points into CHA?
yeah, dump it if you want
make sure you get 18 dex and 16/18 con (18 con if figher 16 otherwise)
ok cool thx bro
Charisma in Baldur's Gate is mainly a yes/no kind of thing. If your Charisma isn't at x height, you won't get certain rewards or outcomes, but those reward and outcomes are few and far between. So if you have a character 1 point below the threshold to get a reward, then there's no reason not to turn charisma into a dump stat at its minimum value.
In BG1, more effort was put into charisma affecting outcomes. The other anon isn't quite right and it can be the difference between a fight or a friend.
But more than charisma is using charm, almost every NPC has a unique dialogue or behavior when charmed (in BG1).
This element was dropped from BG2 and charisma has little use in BG2, outside of being able to talk youself out of sex with Phaere.
Go to the farm on the way up to Baldur's Gate where there are Ankhegs. Kill Ankhegs or just raid their nest where there is some Ankheg shells. Shit is heavy as frick and Ankhegs are powerful, but the armor is as good s full plate.
Only one guy in the game wears full plate before Baldur's Gate, Taugoz Tenhammer at the Bandit Campt.
Ankhegs are vulnerable to sleep so they're pretty cheeseable with a mage of some sort
Can you be a silver-tongued butthole in BG1 and 2 like in Planescape Torment?
Whoops, should have refreshed before posting. So I guess not.
Hey im in Baldur's Gate in BG1, when do i start getting The Good Shit in terms of equipment and weapons?
Cavalier with canon party btw
Sorcerous Sundries and Durlag's Tower.
After cloakwood
Don't go to the werewolf island DLC if you ain't ready for it whatever you do, you need enchanted weapons to hurt those things and there's a time limit of sorts it could ruin your whole playthrough.
Buy the +2 Dagger of Poison from the smith in Beregost. It isn't actual poison, but has a unique damge modifier that bypasses basically all resistances. I think it's the strongest dagger in BG1 and that unique damage still has uses in BG2, killing shit you shouldn't be able to.
Enhanced Edition or OG with mods?
I suggest EE with this mod to restore the original movies, since EE replaced them
https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate/mods/24
Redpill me on Baldur's Gate. What's so good about it among other CRPGs?
Does the whole series has has sex scenes? I hate those.
>Redpill me on Baldur's Gate. What's so good about it among other CRPGs?
It struck a balance between pure build autism for combat campaigns in long dungeons and elaborate visual novel. It revitalized a genre that had been virtually dead for a decade then after the Wizardry/Ultima series stopped. It solved the issue of making pen and paper adaptation not braindead and not miserable taking forever thanks to the real time with pause controls. Previously RPG compensated the simplicity of turn based systems by making the statistics and side mechanics total bullshit (Wizardry 4 in the most infamous example). Ironically what was its greatest strength then is now trashed because average RPG gamer IQ has dropped by one full standard deviation in 25 years.
>Does the whole series has has sex scenes? I hate those.
BG1 has nothing but a few flirtatious remarks here and there. BG2 has three romance paths (with women) that are easily missed and quite barebones. If you somehow play a female character there is only one (white human male cleric) to romance and it's even more rushed. There are no sex scenes.
Thanks for the serious answer, i may give BG1 and BG2 a try since i can run them on my shitty computer
Be aware that BG1 invokes this... The only real word I can use is "sehnsucht." There are things about it I disagree with, such as constantly rerolling things that should just be straight solved (locked chests in particular), but over 90% of it just feels "right." It's the way that RPGs with friends are supposed to be. BG1 is "this image" of games.
that's some bold statement. I'll see for myself but you're getting me hyped up
>This game has so many choices and options that I constantly feel like I should reroll and start again. It's an amazing game so far but the combat is kicking my ass.
Again, just play on the hardest difficulty and remake when you are stuck. Then you will get your fill of choices.