After almost 2yrs I've re-installed the game, deciding to play it through this time, and have some questions/comments which I'll split across a couple of postings.....
1) Multi classing/Levelling
Having gone through some of the threads I have a question about levelling
and class changing, and am wondering if there is a "correct"/proper way
to do this/that should be done, or if it's how one wants to play the game,
and which will have an impact on the chars one creates and playing through
the rest of the game?
I have a bunch of chars that I worked up to about level 10/11, with spawn
set to high and difficulty set to hard. Mostly that was because of (a) having
forgotten a lot about the game (b) wanting to be able to get the stats high
enough so that i could just all of the guilds and have them all complete the
guild quests - except my rogue because of no guild for him in valeia.
Anyway, I've seen people say they only got their chars up to level 5-7
before changing class and am wondering what benefits/drawbacks that gives?
I have noticed that after multi-classing a char no longer gets ability points
until they reach the same level they were in the previous class - although I
don't see any real disadvantage in that because, if you've joined the guilds
then one should be buying points in each guild at level, if you've either done
the gold cheat or, through non-intentional methods of removing 5 chars to solo
one at a time you get the extra gold when you form the 6 party group again.
e.g. I have a 5th level paladin 10th level fighter gourk with the following stats:
20int, 20 spir, 10 will, 18 presence, 20 str, 18 dex, 18 agi, 15 fort
With stats like that I don't need the the ability points as you can see really,
but another thing I have noticed is that the amount of "practices" one gets upon
attaining a level is also only 1 until attaining the same level as the previous
class, so I can't dump a lot of points into say Gallantry as I only get 1 point
to use each level. Is this where my "fall-down" is/where I am going to suffer?
I have a save before class changing, but my party of six are all levels 10-13,
and I have also played them a lot further - e.g. level 11 paladin level 10 Gourk fi - and hence starting again would Really suck at this point.
Thoughts/comments appreciated.