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SixOfSpades · 03-02-2005, 06:16 PM

Quest Pack shows promise, but I wouldn't download it yet. It may be publicly available, but it's actually still in beta.

The other mods you mention are all fine....except I would be wary of some components of Ease-of-Use. Some are overpowered (Shapeshifter "Rebalancing" essentially makes Cernd a better fighter than Korgan could ever be), and some are flat-out cheating (Wear Magic Ring with Magic Armor, etc). I only install components that don't affect the odds of winning a battle, such as Bottomless Bag of Holding.

Another excellent mod out there is aVENGER's Rogue Rebalancing. It makes the Thief kits more different from each other, brings back many BG1 items that weren't carried over into BG2 (and adds several new ones as well), and makes Bards and Thieves slightly more powerful. And it's all very in-character.

You absolutely must NOT install aVENGER'S Shadow Thief Improvements, though.

Certain components of Tactics are good. The quality of Tactics is all over the place, from the A of the Improved Guarded Compound to the F of the Improved Small Teeth Pass. I wrote up a nice big Review of Tactics, but it's a bit out-of-date by now....I really should jot down a nice, text-based, updated version. Hmmm.

An absolutely GREAT-sounding mod (that I haven't tried yet) is BG Refinements. Essentially, it seems to fix everything that was wrong with the game, except that which has already been done by Unfinished Business, etc. Refinements does all sorts of neat crap, like different HLA tables for every single class, kit, and Multiclass in the game. VERY well thought-out.

Also, look for Imrahil's thread called "Reviews of the mod NPCs." Are you satisfied with the 16 recruitable NPCs that BioWare wrote in? Me neither.

03-02-2005, 06:16 PM	#2
SixOfSpades Dracolisk Join Date: September 16, 2001 Location: Bellingham, WA, USA Age: 48 Posts: 6,901	Quest Pack shows promise, but I wouldn't download it yet. It may be publicly available, but it's actually still in beta. The other mods you mention are all fine....except I would be wary of some components of Ease-of-Use. Some are overpowered (Shapeshifter "Rebalancing" essentially makes Cernd a better fighter than Korgan could ever be), and some are flat-out cheating (Wear Magic Ring with Magic Armor, etc). I only install components that don't affect the odds of winning a battle, such as Bottomless Bag of Holding. Another excellent mod out there is aVENGER's Rogue Rebalancing. It makes the Thief kits more different from each other, brings back many BG1 items that weren't carried over into BG2 (and adds several new ones as well), and makes Bards and Thieves slightly more powerful. And it's all very in-character. You absolutely must NOT install aVENGER'S Shadow Thief Improvements, though. Certain components of Tactics are good. The quality of Tactics is all over the place, from the A of the Improved Guarded Compound to the F of the Improved Small Teeth Pass. I wrote up a nice big Review of Tactics, but it's a bit out-of-date by now....I really should jot down a nice, text-based, updated version. Hmmm. An absolutely GREAT-sounding mod (that I haven't tried yet) is BG Refinements. Essentially, it seems to fix everything that was wrong with the game, except that which has already been done by Unfinished Business, etc. Refinements does all sorts of neat crap, like different HLA tables for every single class, kit, and Multiclass in the game. VERY well thought-out. Also, look for Imrahil's thread called "Reviews of the mod NPCs." Are you satisfied with the 16 recruitable NPCs that BioWare wrote in? Me neither. __________________ Volothamp's Comeuppance Everything you ever needed to know about the entire Baldur's Gate series......except spoilers.