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Originally posted by ister:
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Originally posted by wanderon:
Why have one superb and one mediocre archer when you can have two excellent ones... 
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You get much better use out of the bracers if you give them to Kivan rather than Imoen. Kiven get 2.5 attacks per round, Imoen ony get gets 2. Imoen does 1-6 damage per hit (+ arrow bonuses) Kivan does 3-8 or 4-9 (+ arrow bonuses) depending on whether he has a long bow or composite bow. All the bracers do is increase the odds of hitting. Kivan attacks more often and does more damage when he hits. His attacks are the ones you should improve.
Basically if you're fighting an enemy that Kivan has no problems hitting you shouldn't care less whether Imoen ever hits or not. You are going to cream your opponents. If you are facing an enemy that Kivan has some trouble hitting Imoen is going to have a heck of a time hitting the enemy whether she has the bracers or not, and you're much better off optimizing Kivan's attacks. [/QUOTE]I disagree - neither Kivan nor Coran for that matter NEED any additional bonus to hit to be extremely effective with the bow more than effective enough to take care of anything they face - Imoen on the other hand can use all the help she can get - if she does less damage then all the more reason to help her hit more often - its also a good way to boost the groups morale to pass the goodies around to those that need them rather than using them to make the excellent characters little "gods"...
Sometimes you just have to do whats right and toss the math out the window...its a ROLEPLAYING game where you build a TEAM not a math contest where the highest equation wins...
