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Originally posted by GenXCub:
Give me an example of your parties, and why you chose the make-up you did... also, I've been thinking, Instead of taking up 2 places with Gadgeteer and Bard, do a Half/Half, but which to start with... start with bard to get the poet's lute, but lose the omnigun, or start with Gadgeteer and not get the poet's lute, or should I scrap that idea.
Well, my party was 2 bishops, bard, gadgeteer, valkyrie and ranger. My reasoning on it was this -- my two bishops each had two schools of magic to specialize in and complemented each other well in combat whether casting offensively or buffing. My bard and gadgeteer brought in "spells" at much lower levels than my bishops would get them and that only cost stamina, which is recovered immediately after battle. My ranger was my searcher and I never create a party without one. He's also my primary range fighter, though my bard and valk can back him up nicely. My valk was my front-liner (along with the two RPCs I had) and her polearm gave her extended weapon capability even while it robbed her of a shield. I prefer valks to lords because the dual-wielding to me is not worth it and cheat death can be very beneficial if you do something stupid like step off of a tree
And the problem with doing a bard changing to a gadgeteer or vice versa is that in both cases there are items/instruments that are only usable once you get to a certain level (11-14 for gadgeteers, 11-18 for bards) that can really help you out and if you use one character to do both it's going to take a LONG time to get to a level of being able to use everything. There's also the fact that they each have access to so many items that with just one of those two classes you have to make hard choices as to which items to put in their personal inventory and you want exacerbate the problem by choosing out of something like 32 items to fit 8 slots instead of 16 to fill 8.
One final note: you automatically get an omnigun whenever you turn a character into a gadgeteer no matter what he started out as or what level he is - I guess they cobble something together from scratch - so if you decide to do this anyway, I'd start as a bard to get the poet's lute because you'll still get the omnigun later.