Aerie is just so useful in combat heavy TOB. I bet she could take on Draconis alone, the way that Korgan can...

Multi, dual , who cares? Aerie still sucks! Being multi class just means instead of doing one thing well she does 2 things significantly less than well.

I just finished an aerie romance game, and she's decent. toke her a little to long to get lev 9 spells though(making imoen much better at blasting away rooms, time stop, lower restinance, dragon breath, time stop, adhw, adhw watch a roomfull of baddies die) but her healing made up for it in spades, plus i gave her the crom faeyr giving 25 strength and she carried all the heavy stuff

also if you take her through tob she becomes a lot less naive and whiny(lets see how you'd act after being taken from your people, enslaved, tortured and having 2 limbs cut off) in fact she yells at you at one point(viccy is my favorite romance so far though

She yells at you? That's more like it! If i chuck sweet innocent Aerie into my morally indecent and thoroughly evil posse, will she still chuck a spak? Or will she just whine?

Aerie, That useless, wingless, whineball!? you have got to be kidding, romance is the last thing that comes to mind. There are so many times that I wanted to have her killed. Ending the romance was the only way to get her to shut up, for a while. Now she mainly says that snobby phrase about things being beneath her and, my favorite, "I feel so cold" just before she dies.
Apart from being a back of the party conjurer, she serves no purpose. I regret not having grabbed that mage at the bar in SoA.

Contary to popular belief, a multiclassed Cleric/Mage is not worse off because of the lower levels in either class. Assuming it is 75% efficiency on either side, that is a total of 150% efficiency.

A Cleric/Mage is truly a power to behold, and can easily kick any Mage or Cleric in a fair fight; because you see... you can combine the cheese potential of both classes and mix them around to make new cheese.

Time Stop + Harm is a classic cheese from the Cleric/Mage, and if you think spamming spells as a Mage under Improved Alacrity is impressive, wait till you witness what a Cleric/Mage who has double the payload can do. ;)

Just my $0.02 worth on the powergaming aspect of Aerie.

aerie is the coolest npc for the main character to fall for... ive tried to hook up with vicona and got shot down... too bad for her... hehheh

Aerie is the definition of ANNOYING, if I hear her whining pointless squeking again *shudders*

Now Viconia, thats a NPC woman ;)

DAMN DAMN DAMN...just as i made up my mind to never have her in the party again i read this!. I was planning a 3some, mage me, yoshimo and veronica. but now i've got my doubts....

Veronica???