Tell us your favorite Charcter class.

First off, a big
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Then, on to the favourite class...
For me, it's the cleric. Although I may be slightly biased after Linu helped my see rogue through the official campaign, I am convinced these are one of the best classes (although monks, wizards and mages aren't bad either).
Some good defensive spells, the ability to wear armour, the near fighter-like abilities, oh, and the Harm spell. I'm a big fan of that one. Works almost every time, on almost everything. Harm. Can you say it? Haaaarm. Haaaaarm. Lovely. Yes, some people spend just a little too much time indoors, but it's all a matter of perspective in the end. ;)
Haaarm...

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As for my favorite character class, it is of course the one and only Rogue. Maybe I'm just a sneaky bast... er, person, but I love sneak attacks. And being able to detect all traps and disarm them (provided the skills are high enough, of course) is totally cool. I like to use my Rogue as a long distance killer, coming in occasionally to sneak attack someone. It doesn't cost me anything to have my henchman revived, after all, so why not let him/her take all the abuse? :D

Rogue/Mage (11/9) is my fave at the mo [img]smile.gif[/img]

I'm going to experiment with a fighter/ranger combo. The ultimate light armour terror!

Specialist Wizard. (Illusionist)
Opposition school is Enchantment, and I figure I can live without charming / dominating creatures, the extra spells are worth it.

Int 16, Con 18 (to start with, raise int to 19 for 9th level spells, then work on con)

Feats : Toughness, Martial weapons (the one for long swords, bows, etc)

Items on my "To Aquire List" : Astral Long Blade (available at the smith in act 1) , belt of greater swordsman ship (20/- vs slashing) gloves of greater swordsman ship (+6 parry).

Skills: Parry, Persuade, plus the usual wizard ones.

Spells : Always get the most powerful Monster Summoning spell as soon as you level up for it. Those things stay with you all day long (24 hrs) and make for great front line fighters. Always keep one summoned, and one spare for when it dies.

Familiar : Up until level 5, it's either the panther or the Hell hound, for the extra help in a fight. AFter that, they die too much, switch to the pixie.

Henchman: Up until level 5, Tomi Undergallows. Openning chests and catching traps are great ! After that, you can swap him out for Daelen for the tough fights and use the pixie for the chests, though that's a pain.

Weapons : Crossbow, astral long sword. With a decent henchman and a summoned monster half the fights you just stand back watching them do all the work, not wanting to waste any spells. Cross bow is good for making a (small) contribution to such fights. Astral sword is for when you get caught. Attack of Opportunity rules mean you try and drink a potion or cast a spell or run away and the enemey gets to beat on you good. Stand your ground with the sword and just go pure parry and wait for your henchman and summoned to get you out of trouble.

Order of spells: Fire balls first to weaken up the lackeys. Specific spells like acid arrow and magic missile on the toughies after that. Then either polymoreph self - Umber Hulk , or Tensors transofrmation (if you're high enough level to cast it) and wade right in after you ran out of spells.

This particular build of wizard has had no trouble at all in the official campaign. The tough fights I bring the half orc daelon along, the rest of the acts I bring tomi undergallows along. Works great. Smooth sailing.

Opinions ?

Bard... but you can't vote for one apperently :/

i just love the monk, cant get enough of em.
i only really use characters that i have never used before, but i am almost always a monk.
with all the Ki attacks and arrow deflecting and mega resistance to almost anything an all.

Specialist Wizard. (Illusionist)
Opposition school is Enchantment, and I figure I can live without charming / dominating creatures, the extra spells are worth it.
</font>[/QUOTE]Update :

Just hit level 10.
I can now cast 3 Stone Skins.
I wake up in the morning...
..summon Dire Bear
..Cast Stone Skin : Dire Bear
..Cast Stone Skin : Henchman
..Cast Stone Skin : Myself

Dang spell lasts all day long. hit everyone with it, and then off we go to battle.

My henchman almost never dies now adays....

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I'm playing through the game for my first time now, although I've played both Baldur's Gate games and Icewind Dale before. I'm playing as a half-elf fighter/bard. It's a lot of fun. I'm at level 4/4 right now. I haven't really put points into or made use of the bard's rogue skills yet, but Tomi is my henchman, so I don't really need them. However, being a fighter and having access to things like the Bard Song, mage armor, resistance, etc is very very useful. And because most of the spells the bard can cast are defensive in nature and usually cast before battle anyway, i can always just remove my armor to avoid the 45% spell failure chance that comes with a set of full plate ;) .

barbarian with 20+ strength wielding great axe and 4 fighter lvls for some extra feats and weap. specialisatio, or whatever it's called in NWN it's called that in IWD II

I wake up in the morning : run 'em down =)

I'm just starting to play NWN, someone mentioned a monk's Ki attacks? In BG2 there were only 2, how many are there now?

Thanks, Decurion

Halfling Ranger/Rogue/Fighter 15/3/2 with too high dex too wear light armor without being "restricted," weapon finesse and those two cool short swords I got at the final battle... and constant haste-effect from his robe, pretty cool little bugger really [img]smile.gif[/img]

Sorry I forgot the Bard! :(
Um... No one likes the druid why is that?

I voted for the cleric; a very well-rounded class. Can fight well enough, can wear any armor, with one feat (Weapon Proficiency-Martial) can use all of the weapons a warrior can, much improved spells over previous editions. Add turn undead, and the class is just very solid. Oh, and don't forget the Harm spell (the best spell against big monsters, especially the ones that give up if you injure them too much).

I'm a little surprised that the wizard is beating out the sorcerer. I remember a time when everyone was praising sorcerers on this board, stating how much better they are than wizards. Why the change?

mines the sorcerer or wizard :D

Going with the Paladin, I guess its the whole "holy knight" on a quest thing... I think that people like wizards more because they can have a spell for any situation, and while they dont get as many uses for spells, its no trouble to rest for a minute to get the spells back.

Call it a hunch hee...
but I think after this research I find the Rouge is the favorite and the Druid is hated [img]graemlins/survivor.gif[/img] . Why is that, I ask again. Is there no love for the druid??
Druid is not one of my faves, but have mercy and someone give it one vote PLEASE!!
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You just can't beat a good old Ranger in my book [img]smile.gif[/img]

I foted for Cleric and Druid.

Come on people! The druid is a decent class...
The char can act as a healer, offencive as needed, and it can even tank a bit witht he transformation...

Transformation's suck.

Why ?

Because you cant use any equipment. Not even a lowly healing potion.

Even a tensors transformation the idea was you could use the weapon in your hand, but NOOOOOOOO, bioware changed that, you now get some kind of Tensors Sword instead.....

This is why druids suck. Their shape shift ability has been gutted like a dire boar facing a dragon. Once that's neutrilized, what do you have ? A maybe cleric want to be with no spell swaping for heal ability, no turning undead, and no domains.

She bites the big one.

Paladins is where it's at! The Holy Smite ability really comes in handy. And so does the Turn Undead Ability.

I'm a sucker for a challenge. When BG2 came out I tried several character classes before I settled on one I really enjoyed the most. Most characters if you play them right make it through fairly easily, so I tried the then much criticized "Kensai" because he couldn't wear armor. Heh, as time went on and people worked through the paces, they found that a Kensai was a killing machine at higher levels and was perfect to dual as a mage since he couldn't wear armor. I really loved that class. But once again the Kensai, Kensai/Mage was a juggernaut of devestation when played correctly, so I decided on the other much maligned class (at that time), the Monk. Oh yeah, this guy was a real punk at first, and died at the drop of a hat. Finally, a real challenge to play. Monk was the first class that I really felt truly proud of as I finally got enough level ups to hang with the baddies. And at the higher levels a Monk is a juggernaut, but at least in this case I felt like I finally earned it.

That said, my first character in NWN was a Monk, and I was not disappointed. Just as in BG2, the sucker was a serious wimp at first, a real challenge to play. By the time you are immune to poison and disease (which in themselves make this class awesome)the game is a sweet ride. Monk requires some strategy to play, moreso in that they are not full fledged "brawlers" so you don't normally just go in bashing brains out, or you might end up with yours on the floor. And you normally aren't hauling Dalen around because you need "Tommy the thief" or "Linu the Cleric" more. Since you don't have spells, animal companions or summoned creatures to take the brunt of attacks, you rely on your stealth to sneak around, get in the first blows undetected, retreat to a more defensible position before renewing the fight. I know we can all say many great things regarding strategies and tactics and all are relevant. I just enjoy the Monk the most because they were a legitmate challenge to keep alive long enough to become a viable force.